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Having experienced quarantine once before has not helped me through this pandemic we’re experiencing, but it has given me some perspective.
I was 3 or 4 years old when my older sister, four …
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3/27/20
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If you find that you have time on your hands these days, consider reading some fine short stories to satisfy your need for a little surprise, humor or wisdom about human life.
Short stories are …
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By Sanda Baucom Hight
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3/27/20
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I know a lot of you are bored. I’m pretty bored myself.
I find that being bored makes me more tired than being active. I think it should be the other way around, but that’s not what happens. …
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By Joe Weaver
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3/27/20
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Many individuals express their opinions on these pages. I therefore offer my opinion, which you can feel free to ignore.
The country and indeed the Northern Hemisphere is currently …
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By Dr. Lindsey de Guehery
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3/26/20
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For some courses in college, I worked hard, connected with the subject matter and the professor and wanted to always present my best work. For other courses, I carefully reviewed the syllabus to …
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By LaMonique Hamilton
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3/26/20
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Enough already! I can take only so much COVID-19 news, closed restaurants and long car lines at McDonald’s just for a morning cup of coffee. I’m hungry for other news and good-tasting food. …
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By Oliver Hedgepeth
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3/26/20
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RALEIGH — The precise course of the COVID-19 outbreak and its medical, social and even political consequences are impossible to know at this writing. But there is at least one thing state lawmakers …
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By John Hood
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3/26/20
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Bernie Sanders is going to win the upcoming election for the Democrats.
Does that sound like crazy talk?
In light of Sanders’ recent crushing defeats on the primary campaign trail, maybe it …
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By D.G. Martin
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3/25/20
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A bipartisan group of senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a March 16 scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA …
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By Ron Paul
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3/25/20
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Our community — along with communities around the world — is navigating unprecedented challenges as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread. The cycle of our lives and neighborhoods …
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By Mark Holyoak
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3/25/20
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Coronavirus may not make us all sick, but it may make us all socialists.
Washington is suddenly awash in ideas that some might call socialism. Some ideas are coming from people who regularly …
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Gary Pearce
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3/23/20
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As North Carolina and other states inch toward increasingly draconian measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all weighing the potential costs of both underreaction and …
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By John Hood
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3/23/20
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In their haste to contain the coronavirus, public officials are trampling on civil liberties.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s March 14 executive order prohibits gatherings of more than 100 …
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By Corey Friedman
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3/22/20
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As of Saturday, there were more than 250 cases of COVID-19 in North Carolina, including three confirmed cases in Wilson County. On March 10, Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency for the …
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By Jean Farmer-Butterfield
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3/22/20
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The grocery store parking lot seemed a bit more crowded than usual when I arrived to pick up a few items we needed last Sunday, but the crowding didn’t seem so unusual until I got inside and found …
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By Hal Tarleton
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3/20/20
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You are probably familiar with those top 10 lists from late-night TV shows, you know, the ones that give us a little comic relief at the end of the day and some essential therapeutic belly …
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By Sanda Baucom Hight
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3/20/20
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The handshake is something many of us perform, some more often than others. It’s a common practice we haven’t thought much about until recently, when it took on new significance.
Wikipedia …
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By Keith Barnes
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3/20/20
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There are a lot of you out there who could use some levity.
The events of the last week or so have whipped this country into a frenzy not seen in a very long time. Some folks believe it will blow …
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By Joe Weaver
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3/20/20
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Three big crises have hit America in the first 20 years of the 21st century: 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and now the coronavirus/stock market crash. Each one has left us more divided and our …
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By Gary Pearce
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3/19/20
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There is always something good that can come from a disaster, which is this virus attack on our country, the stock market dropping by 3,000 points and way too many of us being told to stay home, …
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By Oliver Hedgepeth
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3/19/20
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