November 20, 2009
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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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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The city's new aquatics center is still afloat, thanks to a 7-1 vote of confidence Tuesday night by the City Council. Specifically the council voted to fill a $6 million funding shortfall with certificates of participation financed by hotel-occupanc...
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November 17, 2009
A state report showing a high number of pancreatic cancer cases among residents near the landfill may be flawed, but it still raises more questions.
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When Stanley Battle stepped down in June as chancellor at N.C. A&T after only two years in office, he didn't go off the payroll. His $273,156 annual salary continued while he took a "study leave," which began July 1 and ends Dec. 31. H...
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The News & Record receives more cartoons than it can publish, so we're putting some of them online. Click here to see a slideshow of recent cartoons
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BELEM, Brazil -- "One million dollars?"
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November 16, 2009
Obama pulled Edwards' hair It was more than a bad hair day for John Edwards when the story broke during his presidential run in 2007 that he was paying $400 to have his locks trimmed. The news made him a target for late-show comedians and tarnished his im...
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They killed a killer last week.I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of remorse at the knowledge that the government had ta...
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November 15, 2009
Replacing Tim Bellamy sometime next year will be one of the biggest assignments of Rashad Young's early tenure. Proven leadership is a must.
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City Councilwoman Trudy Wade says she's always known political consultant Bill Burckley as a "gentleman." C'mon, Trudy. What you've always known is better than that. Wade has been around long enough to know Burckley, a former council membe...
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If we imagine politics as a tug-of-war contest, Tuesday, Nov. 3, represented a dramatic shift of momentum. Only a day earlier, liberals stood on dry ground, as conservatives wallowed in the waist-deep muck into which they were (deservedly) pulled a...
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By BRIAN BALFOURGreensboro residents face a staggering state and local government true debt burden equivalent to $11,200 for every man, woman and child -- or roughly $44,800 for a family of four.
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