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Latest job numbers look promising
As more North Carolinians manage to get and stay employed, our immediate economic future becomes less gloomy. The same could be said for the fiscal outlook of state and local government.
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New telling of Perry Mason’s tale makes case against licensing burdens
Real-life versions of the famous attorney face years of mandatory formal higher education.
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Cognitive dissonance
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The Washington To-Be-Determineds
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COVID infections far exceed cases
Neither the Cooper administration nor its advisers deserve the bum rap that they forecast too many COVID infections in North Carolina. Indeed, it could be that their high-end forecast was an underestimate.
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Clear science, complete data? Governor, we’re tired of waiting
Waiting. That’s what we do in North Carolina these days. We wait. Wait is one of the Cooper administration’s three Ws, somewhere between wash and wear. No ironing needed. We wait in lines, six feet between us and anybody else. But mostly we wait for the governor and his staff to tell us when it’s...
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In the line of fire
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The thorny issue of slavery reparations
This summer’s racial protests and violence have propelled the issue of slavery reparations under the national spotlight. It is a central feature of the list of demands forwarded by the Movement for Black Lives — a coalition of “Black Lives Matter” and other related groups. For the first time since Reconstruction, there are currently bills in the...
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Snapshots in time
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He seems nice
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Pipeline demise won’t halt natural gas
It will remain uneconomical to replace coal-fired plants with renewables for “baseload generation” — for the level of power needed to serve basic needs when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
