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I was less than 24 hours away from an overnight, overseas flight from JFK in New York to Ukraine when I discovered my passport was lost.
If you’ve ever lost anything — who among us hasn’t …
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BY BILL HORNER, III, News + Record Publisher
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2/15/19
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More power to anyone who can get through high school and college without doing something stupid.
That’s because high school students are young people with additional growth and maturity in their …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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2/15/19
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Working in the news business can be difficult. For every reporter, it truly is a labor of love. We work weird, long hours, and often for little pay. Our jobs are tough and our futures are often …
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BY CASEY MANN, News + Record Staff
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2/15/19
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A voice from my past called to my soul the other day as I listened to some of the news accounts about all the folks across the political and social spectrum who have been found or admitted to wearing …
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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2/15/19
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I pushed the shopping cart – we used to call them “buggies,” but that’s a word you rarely hear these days – from the back of my car to the designated depository area in the grocery store …
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2/7/19
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Candidates are lining up to run in 2020 and we’ve heard those running on a more liberal or “progressive” platform, as well as those espousing a more conservative agenda.
There’s one big …
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2/7/19
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I remember being mistrustful of the Internet, back in its formative years.
Still clinging to bound books and libraries and old-fashioned research tools like microfilm, I held to an uneasiness …
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2/7/19
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There’s an old saying about how it’s not possible to teach an old dog new tricks. And there’s some truth to that. I remember an old dog we once had and how I tried to teach him to go to the …
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2/7/19
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During over four decades of teaching, I’ve enjoyed asking students the following questions in my introductory economics course: “What if you could write a check and never have to deduct the …
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2/7/19
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A few days ago, I opened our refrigerator door to see what was hiding in there that I could turn into a snack. Since I’ve started a cardiac rehab program over the past several weeks, I’ve tried …
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2/1/19
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RALEIGH — The single most important issue during every legislative session is the approval or revision of North Carolina’s state budget. For the 2019-20 session about to get underway, the …
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2/1/19
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February is historically one of the coldest months of the year in these parts, but paradoxically it’s also the month we celebrate one of our warmest holidays: Valentine’s Day.
Aided by the …
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2/1/19
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THE CN+R EDITORIAL
In other words, 2,000 Chatham families lack access to affordable housing.
They lack access because of an unfortunate combination of circumstances in the place we live in …
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2/1/19
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I’m not sure what compelled my high school history teacher to say what she did to our entire class nearly four decades ago, but I’ve never forgotten it.
Now I’m trying to erase it from my …
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2/1/19
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Lawmakers return to Raleigh next week for the 2019 session of the North Carolina General Assembly. Pledges of harmony and bipartisan cooperation were frequently heard on opening day but are more …
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2/1/19
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The recent uproar about Silent Sam, the statue in memory of UNC students who fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States and which until last August stood on the grounds of the campus, …
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By BOB WACHS
News + Record Staff
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1/25/19
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I couldn’t help seeing, numerous times on social media over the past weekend, the provocative image of a teenage boy -- a red MAGA hat atop his head -- engaged in a wordless face-off with an …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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1/25/19
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Grade: B –
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Jade Pettyjohn and Scoot McNairy
MPAA Rating: R
Running …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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1/21/19
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My first-born grandchild, who happens to be the only guy out of a total of six folks in that category, entered the great unknown world of “teendom” last week.
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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1/18/19
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Some people, I believe, have a natural aptitude for auto mechanics, but I’m not one of them.
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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1/18/19
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