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Keeping the politics out of judicial redistricting in North Carolina
Last spring, Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, filed a bill that would establish new judicial and prosecutorial districts throughout the state and specify the number of judges and prosecutors for each While House Bill 717 didn’t come to a vote during the regular session, Burr has indicated he would try to have it considered during this week’s session....
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Silent tribute
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Voters compare imperfect options
A new poll suggests that if the presidential election of 2016 were restaged in North Carolina, Trump would probably still win the state.
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The big question
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More 4-3 decisions, no consistent partisan splits in N.C. Supreme Court
The N.C. Supreme Court handed down twice as many 4-3 decisions Friday as it had during the rest of the year. Yet it would be a mistake to jump to the conclusion that the 4-3 splits show signs of a new partisan divide within the state’s highest court. Just one of the four new 4-3...
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Good news, bad news
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Median household income shoots up
North Carolina's 4.5 percent growth rate in median household income was the 4th-highest in the country last year, and far above the 2.4 percent national average.
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Easier said than done
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Newspapers, in some form, must be saved, but how?
Newspapers refuse to die. On a superficial level, that’s a good thing. For as long as I can remember, newspaper publishers, editors, and the large corporations that pull the proverbial strings have made innumerable and mostly ill-fated attempts to revive an industry and business plan that began cracking around the edges some 30 years ago....
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Credible threat
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The message of Adam Smith: In a free market, ‘narrow self interest’ means failure
One of the most common misconceptions about the free market is that it encourages people to pursue their own “narrow self-interest,” usually interpreted as caring only about one’s self while ignoring the needs and desires of others. But in fact, the truth is quite the opposite. In a market, the surest route to economic failure...
