Gov. Roy Cooper is absolutely right to insist that the Republican National Convention adhere to North Carolina’s pandemic guidelines — whateve…
Jim Bakker doesn’t have a cure for the coronavirus.
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In Chapel Hill people still talk about the influenza pandemic of 1918.
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My father used to joke that, when he was a boy, it seemed like his family moved every time the rent came due.
Libya, which has lived with civil war off and on since 2011, now is on the brink of joining Syria as the site of a major multinational conflic…
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Should Fort Bragg keep on being Fort Bragg? Or do we need another name for North Carolina’s largest military base?
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I like to make up new verses for songs. All my life, as people like to say. A song pops into my head, and I start singing to myself. Often, I’…
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To: Mayor Black, Manager Eckard, the Five Members of the Town Council (Mr. Thompson, Ms. Stevenson, Mr. Sweezy, Ms. Hildebran, Mr. Ogle), Fina…
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