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Mother’s suit shows COVID legal battles are far from over
A lawsuit at North Carolina's second-highest court tackles the forced vaccination of a 14-year-old high school football player.
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How MVP Southgate can help bridge gap from coal to zero-emissions nuclear
On July 27, the US Supreme Court vacated the stay imposed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The pipeline project is about 94% completed and was originally supposed to be finished by 2020, but desperate court challenges and permit delays had pushed its completion date to 2026. The...
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Mountain of debt
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Presidential primaries need a shake-up
I know you may find this news depressing, but we’re only five months away from the first votes in the 2024 presidential election. Our current primary system is absurd. The contests start way too early. And their location is unfair to large swaths of American voters. But that doesn’t mean the system ought to be...
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Rising to the challenge of solving our complex border crisis
The people working to reform the US immigration system are as multi-faceted as the problems we face. That is one of the key takeaways from my time hearing — and learning — from so many of those whose lives are affected by the issues on our southern border. When I visited with border patrol agents,...
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Progressiveville
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Who pays the ferryman?
The question of who pays the ferryman is one from ancient Greece, and one’s eternal fate hung in the balance. Loved ones would place coins on the eyes or under the tongue of the deceased to ensure they would have the toll to pay Charon the ferryman, whose job it was to take souls across...
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A new world is coming for libraries
Nearly three centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin began the first American public library in Philadelphia. Although not the first library in the world (that honor goes to one established in 668 B.C., or thereabouts), libraries have supported their patrons by upholding community standards. At the vanguard of that movement was the American Library Association (ALA), formed...
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Outbursts
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North Wilkesboro homeless shelter beats zoning police in federal case
Many people will celebrate the grand opening of the Catherine H. Barber Memorial Homeless Shelter at its new location on Saturday, but not the zoning police in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. They did everything they could to block the expansion, which they saw as a threat to a vague concept they call neighborhood “harmony.” Zoning...
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Legacy preferences should join racial preferences in dustbin
The nation’s highest court decided in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard on June 29 that universities could no longer practice racial discrimination in the name of diversity. The court made clear that, under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” In other words, there...
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