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State will resolve key issues
The previous assumption that all or part of House Bill 2 was destined for destruction in federal court — which was never warranted in the first place — is now dissipating.
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Education seeing ‘unconventional’ growth
Homeschooling is the maverick among North Carolina’s K-12 options. Since its launch three decades ago, homeschooling has bucked convention and stumped prognosticators. Age and experience haven’t tamed its life outside the lines; this unorthodox movement still defies expectations. Yet amid unpredictability, one constant has emerged: Homeschooling is enormously popular. Thirty years ago 809 students were...
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Nonaggression pact
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Voters send clear tax message
In the vast majority of contested races, North Carolinians opted for the candidate least likely to raise their taxes, or mostly likely to cut them.
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Fair trade
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McCrory’s difficult path to re-election
Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper has a lead of roughly 5,000 votes in his attempt to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, and Cooper was quick to claim victory Tuesday night, telling supporters, “We have won this race.” Not so fast, the governor’s team responded. “Currently, there are tens of thousands of outstanding absentee, military,...
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Getting ahead of ourselves?
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On the ‘media’: Clear the clutter with a discerning eye
On one point, President-elect Donald Trump has it right. Reporters, as he often intimated throughout his successful campaign, are biased. But not in the ways you may think. Or in ways in which politicians and pundits have led you to believe are true. News organizations lean one way or the other because they are a...
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We report … ?
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Are we there yet?
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Roy Cooper bucks GOP trend
Although ticket-splitting is far less common than it used to be, some North Carolinians continue to mix and match their votes in seemingly inexplicable ways.
