November 22, 2009
A proposed new policy would focus on retention and graduation on state university campuses, not just enrollment growth. Dropout rates are too high.
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Even as Guilford County was debating, once again, the wisdom of police officers carrying stun guns on school grounds, four teens were being arrested in Wake County on Nov. 12 for a bringing a .22 caliber revolver and a butterfly knife onto the campu...
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Hard times give us perspective on the things that matter most in life. Then again, as the members of Spinal Tap mused while gazing upon Elvis' grave, it is possible to have too much perspective. That's how I feel after more than two years of economi...
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Nobel laureate and folk hero? Paul Krugman, economist, scholar and columnist for The New York Times (and the News & Record), may be the only one in his field to have a YouTube music video posted in his honor.
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By RUTH D. ANDERSONWhat would happen if all nonprofits in our county disappeared? Ann Morelli's eyes opened very wide when I asked her: "What would happen to the families at Partnership Village if we did not have any nonprofits in our coun...
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By D.G. MARTINThe big news in North Carolina insider politics these days is the resignation of Sen. Tony Rand -- and his replacement as Senate majority leader by Sen. Martin Nesbitt, who was recommended by Marc Basnight, the top leader of the Senate...
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By TOM CAMPBELLFor years, Charlotte and North Carolina boasted that two of the top four banks in the country were headquartered here. Coupled with other strong regional and community banks, this state was a major financial center.
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November 21, 2009
Sarah Palin's book tour stop Monday at Fort Bragg will be tightly controlled to avoid any hint of politics ... by a politician. So why was she invited?
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November 20, 2009
Five-year-old Shaniya Davis, whose body was found Monday after a weeklong search, deserved better from her family -- and from the rest of us.
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What could have possessed the man accused in the burning and beating of a 3-month-old puppy found barely alive this August in a Greensboro park? Twenty-year-old Lashawn Whitehead's reported response to his mother was a simple, "I don't know.&qu...
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Correction An editorial in Thursday's editions misstated the amount of the swim community's contribution to the new aquatics center. That amount is $250,000 toward the $17.4 million total cost.
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I wouldn't have known about the Textile Heritage Center in Cooleemee had I not moseyed up to Spencer last spring for the Rail Days observance at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
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I'm sure I would like Sarah Palin if I got the chance to meet her. We share many things in common. She is still married to her first spouse, as am I. She has a Down syndrome son. I have a brother with Down syndrome. We share the same faith and we bo...
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Critics storm that health care reform is "a cruel hoax and a delusion." Ads in 100 newspapers thunder that reform would mean "the beginning of socialized medicine."
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November 19, 2009
The city's public library will use technology to help deter patrons who seek out lewd Web sites. But there remains no substitute for parental vigilance.
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