November 17, 2009
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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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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By TOM CAMPBELL
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A number of years ago, I learned a painful lesson by wasting my time and a client's money by treating the external symptoms and ignoring the underlying disease.
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November 14, 2009
As it turns out, $12 million in voter-approved bonds won't be enough to build the new aquatics facility. Why didn't city leaders see this coming?
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November 13, 2009
A state court declares Winston-Salem's ordinance unconstitutional. Greensboro recognizes an individual's right to stand around lawfully.
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The City Council was right on the money in allocating $3.3 million to extend water and sewer service to two areas near Piedmont Triad International Airport. Guilford commissioners, however, should think twice before awarding the full $373,000 LabCor...
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This week marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the eventual collapse of communism. I was not in Berlin that November night in 1989 when jubilant East and West Germans danced atop the wall. But months earlier I had been in Ea...
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I was disappointed when the Charlotte-based National Football League team chose the shopworn nickname, "Panthers." I thought the name "Charlotte Shuttles" would have been more alliterative and more redolent of local history. Call...
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