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CJ exclusive: Shatner reflects on legacy ahead of NC appearances
On Wednesday, April 15, he will visit Greensboro’s Tanger Center; and on Friday, April 17, he will head to Charlotte’s Ovens Auditorium.
Opinion
‘Oh God, it’s Mom’: The phone call heard around the world, 10 years later
A decade later, we will all be together this Christmas. We will argue politics, eat, play cards, watch football, and continue loving each other despite our differences.
Opinion
Campaigns go back to future
After a certain point, raising and spending more money on TV ads doesn’t seem to help candidates very much. That's why they're returning to grass-roots campaigning.
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VIDEO: Pollster Conway Urges Conservatives to Focus on Who Can Lead
RALEIGH — Conservatives and Republicans should avoid spending too much time asking who can win the White House in 2016. Instead they should identify the candidate who can lead once he’s in office. That was one piece of advice nationally recognized pollster Kellyanne Conway offered Tuesday during a John Locke Foundation Headliner speech in Raleigh.
Opinion
Some Useful Economic Stimuli
Every day, there’s some news event, data release, or political speech that could make even the most naturally cheerful North Carolinian feel down in the dumps.
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VIDEO: Bill Could Limit Out-of-State Wine Shipments
SAXAPAHAW — The N.C. Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association's Executive Director Tim Kent says the federal CARE Act would not limit a small winery's access to markets. Benjamin Vineyards owner Andy Zeeman says the opposite. He describes the bill as a first step wholesalers will use to then demand that wine shipments go through them.
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VIDEO: Red Oak Brewery Fights For Its Independence
WHITSETT — Red Oak Brewery owner Bill Sherrill wants his Guilford County operation to keep growing. But it can't unless the General Assembly changes a law forcing any brewery producing more than 25,000 barrels annually to distribute all its beer through a wholesaler.
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VIDEO: Pension Board Ignores Unfunded Liability
RALEIGH — At a meeting Thursday, the trustees for the state's two largest pension funds barely mentioned the unfunded liability created a year ago when Democrats shortchanged state employees.
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VIDEO: Is DOT Double-Counting High-Speed Rail Jobs?
RALEIGH — Under the job-years concept, if one person holds the same job for four years, it’s counted as four jobs. That’s how the North Carolina Department of Transportation can claim that federal funding for high-speed rail would create nearly 4,800 jobs when in fact only about 1,200 people would be employed.
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VIDEO: Bill Would Protect Athletes With Concussions
RALEIGH — The bill will be named after Matthew Gfeller, who died of a brain injury sustained during a high school football game. He played for R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem. The bill is likely to require athletes showing any sign of a concussion to be pulled from competition until testing shows it's safe for the athlete to return to play.
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VIDEO: House Protects Unborn Victims of Violence
RALEIGH — Anyone attacking a pregnant woman could be charged with additional crimes if the attack causes a miscarriage. Opponents say it is the first time North Carolina law will define life as starting at the moment of conception, a point that was not disputed by backers of the law.
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VIDEO: Pantano Gets Early Start on 2012 Campaign
RALEIGH — Ilario Pantano is not taking any downtime after his narrow loss to U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-7th. Pantano filed campaign paperwork with the Federal Election Commission. He said he decided to keep his campaign active in order to meet as many potential voters as possible.
