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For the Record

Posted on May 2, 2007May 2, 2007 by Staff

Retrograde in health care A new study from the university’s Sheps Center confirms that North Carolina is falling further behind when it comes to health care. The percentage of uninsured North Carolinians grew to 1,314,238 people, a rise from 15.3 percent of the population in 2000 to 17.2 percent in 2005. The center produced maps…

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Land (and jobs) for tomorrow

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Staff

By Abdul Rasheed  It’s encouraging to see the positive attention generated by a proposal in the General Assembly that could lead to the most important environmental initiative in the history of our state. Those of us involved with the project call it “Land for Tomorrow.” Others refer to it as the land-use plan in House…

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Exile on Jones Street

Posted on May 2, 2007May 2, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross Maybe we should all go pro. When it comes to sports, this is that time of year I most dislike. This is when those thin walls that separate college and professional athletics come down and we start seeing dollar figures instead of majors and year in school in the descriptive clauses of…

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For the record

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Staff

Thanks students Even the most curmudgeonly among us know that this community always gets a boost from the enthusiasm brought in by the young people attending the university. This week they buckle down for exams and next week they prepare to bid us adieu. The year has not ended well, first with the sudden loss…

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Lifting the veil on the immigration debate

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Staff

By Chris Fitzsimon  As the immigration debate rages on in Washington and North Carolina with an eye toward the 2008 elections, the rhetoric grows more disturbing, especially from the virulent anti-immigrant groups and the candidates pandering to them, even ones who had reasonably open minds on the issue just a few months ago.

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Exile on Jones Street

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross Tea leaves All signs point to ‘huh?’ The latest Elon Poll, released over the past few days, has a pretty interesting set of findings many of which can be summed up with a question mark. North Carolinians know that smoking is a health hazard, but they don’t want government to interfere with…

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Citizen Scientists: Watchdogs over the water

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Staff

By Jock Lauterer  Earth Day number one, I remember like it was yesterday. 1970. A young upstart editor at a start-up weekly in rural Western North Carolina, I was called by some locals the “hippie editor.” But that’s OK. There was this “hippie teacher” at the local high school too, a gifted young visionary who,…

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Solidly in genre

Posted on April 26, 2007April 26, 2007 by Staff

By Erica Eisdorfer I work with lots of college students and try to pay attention to their interests and tastes. Recently, one of them put a book directly into my hands. “Read this,” he said seriously. “Just read it and tell me what you think.” Generally a jovial youth, quick to laugh, his demeanor, as…

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Local transfer tax would be good for the county

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Staff

By Patrick Barnes and Mike Cross In the mid-1980s, Dare County’s leaders saw a housing boom coming and didn’t know how to pay for it. Higher property taxes were a touchy issue in the coastal county. The rich didn’t want them and the poor couldn’t afford them. Taxes on hotel rooms and other purchases wouldn’t…

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For the record

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Staff

Echoes from Blacksburg Grief is immediate and lasting at the same time. In Blacksburg, a community much like our own, it has settled in while the town and the world stands in shock. The echoes sounding on a survivor’s cell phone had barely faded when the conversation veered from anguish to politics and what to…

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Open the Ethics Proceedings

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Staff

By Louisa Warren North Carolina lawmakers deserve great praise for passing a substantial lobbying and ethics reform package last year that will truly help change the pay-to-play culture that ruled in the General Assembly. But unfortunately there’s a fundamental flaw to the legislation that threatens to stain their good work and further erode public confidence….

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Exile on Jones Street

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Staff

Help Wanted With the race for the Democratic nomination for governor tightening, it’s looking less and less like either Richard Moore or Beverly Perdue are going to blink and veer onto the federal side of the ballot to take on Sen. Elizabeth Dole. With the two most well-funded and visible Dems not inclined to take…

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Small wonders and moments long remembered

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Staff

By Frank Heath You wake up on a beautiful Tuesday morning, but the power remains out in half of Chapel Hill, and 33 people are still dead on the campus of Virginia Tech. Sometimes we make sports out to be as important as the things that go on in real life; but they’re not. Sports…

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NRC needs to act on Harris fire safety issues

Posted on April 18, 2007April 18, 2007 by Staff

By Jim Warren Power company influence – including suppression of criticism and public relations smokescreens – continues to damage our democratic process and threaten regional safety. Last fall, NC WARN, the Union of Concerned Scientists and others began legal action to compel the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to enforce its rules after allowing Shearon Harris…

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For the Record

Posted on April 11, 2007April 11, 2007 by Staff

Editor’s Note: Following is Senate Joint Resolution 1557—an apology for slavery passed by the North Carolina Senate on April 5, 2007 by a vote of 46-0. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 1557 Second Edition Engrossed 4/5/07 April 5, 2007 A JOINT RESOLUTION expressing the PROFOUND REGRET of the North Carolina general assembly for the history of wrongs…

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