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North Carolina leads in jobs lost
We should all take reasonable precautions, absolutely. But keeping schools, public venues, and large swaths of our economy closed or severely constrained indefinitely strikes me as the opposite of reasonable.
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Scholar ponders proper role of precedent for an originalist justice
Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court revives an important constitutional debate.
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Single-issue voters
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Sparks fly in state treasurer debate
Public employees understandably care a great deal about who is managing their retirement savings and health plan, but all North Carolinians have a stake in the outcome.
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How many COVID-19 cases in N.C. were actually even cases?
Imagine being quarantined and your family, friends, and coworkers needlessly alerted and scared because you tested positive for a scrap of unviable genetic material. You thought you had a dangerous virus, but you didn’t. Without a doubt, it’s happened all across North Carolina, except that the victims never find out about that last bit. These...
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Be careful what you wish for
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Governor keeps taking things from us, and we won’t get them back
A comfortable chair, in a bookstore or coffee shop. Maybe just a hard, splintery bench in a park. A conversation with a stranger, or even an old friend. Someone you haven’t seen in awhile. Mostly gone, now. Not lost, really. We know where to find them. Rather, as my friend and colleague Kari Travis told...
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I ain’t ‘fraid of no …
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You’re asking me to be rational. That is something I know I cannot do.
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COVID shapes debate on worker safety
Candidates for North Carolina’s labor commissioner were civil and substantive during a recent debate, reflecting both campaigns’ recognition that voters are exhausted by smashmouth politics.
