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Baby Boomers are the musical generation, not because of the quality of their music (some of it is pretty worthless) but because of their capacity to have music all the time everywhere.
It was this …
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By Hal Tarleton
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6/14/19
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Greeting card companies can keep their homestyle homage to fishing rods, golf clubs, remote controls and “Kiss the Cook” barbecue aprons. This Father’s Day, I’ll remember the day I walked in …
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6/14/19
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This evening, I had pizza for dinner. It wasn’t made from scratch, nor was it from a local takeout restaurant. It was a boxed frozen pizza from the supermarket.
The brand is not important, as I …
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By Joe Weaver
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6/14/19
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Spoiler alert for “Avengers: Endgame” — big-time.
This is the endgame! In a nutshell, that’s what today’s column is intended to be: the last one. For the three of you who have been …
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By Zach Harris
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6/14/19
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Fathers are on our minds this weekend, and many people are thinking of their own father and other men who are father figures and good examples of what our society believes fatherhood should be.
I …
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By Sanda Baucom Hight
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6/14/19
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RALEIGH — I have devoted most of my life to building, inhabiting and sometimes leading organizations devoted to advancing the cause of freedom. But what I mean by that term may be quite different …
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By John Hood
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6/13/19
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My son is home for the summer. I can tell because a good number of my glasses and dishes are in his room.
This is an ongoing battle, and I have been losing for a long time. Judging by the visits I …
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By LaMonique Hamilton Barnes
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6/13/19
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More than 800 people gathered in Raleigh this week to address the opioid epidemic. Five lives are lost each day and more than 13,000 deaths occurred between 1999 and 2017 due to opioids. In addition …
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By Tom Campbell
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6/13/19
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I’ve been to the moon. I’ve been burned. But more often I’m honored. I’m your American flag.
With 13 stars for colonies clamoring for freedom, I was first flown at Fort Stanwix in New York …
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By James F. Burns
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6/13/19
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OK, ladies, Father’s Day is June 16. It’s only fair that I give you girls some tips on sweet gifts for those special dads in your lives.
I hope some of the fellas took some tips away from my …
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By Chelsey Edens
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6/13/19
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Ever since the beginning of creation, humans have been running away from and then trying to seek and find God, Creator, whatever name you use. We were formed in the image of our Creator, then he was …
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By Paul Evans
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6/13/19
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Late in the evening of June 5, 1944, Winston Churchill soberly asked his wife, Clementine, “Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, 20,000 men may have been killed?”
I …
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By George Holding
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6/12/19
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This week’s column will address several questions, comments and suggestions that have come across my desk (doesn’t that wording sound official?) from readers over the past few days in connection …
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By Keith Barnes
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6/11/19
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Those of us from rural communities know the stories all too well. Neighbors who skip doctor appointments because they can’t afford insurance. Parents who worry about how long it would take for an …
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6/11/19
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Nash County voters were recently treated to two more examples of why character matters.
First, freshman Rep. James Gailliard wasted no time in recording his first “flip-flop” by changing his …
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By Rick Horner
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6/11/19
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RALEIGH — Although policymakers sometimes portray increasing access and reducing cost as separate objectives for health care reform, the two are closely related. When North Carolinians lack …
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By John Hood
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6/10/19
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Most of the time when economics makes the headlines it’s about big things, like recessions, trade wars, tax changes and jobs. But economics also deals with smaller, technical matters — things …
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By Mike Walden
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6/10/19
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It has been another busy week at the General Assembly. Many topics affecting the health care and well being of North Carolinians are highlighted in this newsletter.
I remain energized to continue …
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By Jean Farmer-Butterfield
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6/9/19
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A local fisherman thought he reeled in a turtle shell until he turned it over in his hand to find himself staring into the empty eye sockets of a human skull.
Nearly 25 years later, the identity …
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By Lindell John Kay
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6/9/19
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Don’t mess with the leadership of the N.C. General Assembly. That seems to be the central message in a dispute between the legislature and Vidant Health, the corporation that operates the …
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By Hal Tarleton
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6/7/19
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