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OUR VIEW: Miscues in Marshville
Every carpenter knows the rule: Measure twice, cut once. Carpenters know something about wasted effort and materials, concerns that seem completely beyond the grasp of the Marshville Town Council....
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OUR VIEW: Not giving until it hurts
Are we really 50 percent poorer? The United Way announced Wednesday that giving in 2009 is half of what it was in 2008, which was not exactly a banner year for the beleagured charity clearinghouse...
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Debating the undebatable
All across the U.S., state and local governments are locked in debates — remarkable only to the extent that some still find the issue debatable — over whether it should be illegal to exchange text...
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Court chastens the Legislature
A recent N.C. Court of Appeals ruling should spur both the executive and legislative branches to write budgets more responsibly. The court ruled that former Gov. Mike Easley did not have the autho...
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The politics of death and health care
As so often in its long history, the British magazine The Economist has taken a rather bemused look at the antics of the former colonies, this time about health care. In assessing “the politics of...
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End mountain mining practice
The Environmental Protection Agency, after years of abuses under the Bush administration, is back on the right track with its plans to give further environmental review to 79 permits for mountaint...
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Perdue rights lawmakers' wrongdoing
Gov. Beverly Perdue kept one of her campaign promises recently. She used her first veto to kill a bill that would have made information requests and documents lawmakers use in drafting laws confid...
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Our children are still in danger
While laudable progress has been made over the last 17 years in reducing the state’s child death rate, challenges remain. Nearly everything in the just-released N.C. Child Task Force annual report...
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Immigrants and college
It’s easy to think of the immigration problem in the abstract. On the Journal’s Insight front Sunday, Maria Delise Campos of Winston-Salem put a face on one aspect of that problem: Should she and ...
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