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July 28, 2025

Month: August 2020

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ROBINSON: The UNC System must cut costs; here’s how it can be done

August 4, 2020 Jenna Robinson, James G. Martin Center

Last month, the UNC Board of Governors directed all UNC System institutions to make contingency plans for budget cuts between 25 and 50%. It’s smart to plan ahead, though budget cuts will likely be smaller […]

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TUCKER: Chaperone or bartender?

August 4, 2020 Garland S. Tucker, III

Former Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin once described his role as “the chaperone who removes the punch bowl just when the party gets going.” Martin was affirming the Fed’s original and primary duty to […]

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Trump signs $3B-a-year plan to boost conservation, parks

August 4, 2020 Darlene Superville, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law legislation that will devote nearly $3 billion annually to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands. The measure […]

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NC organization awarded $500K to provide housing for human trafficking victims

August 4, 2020 North State Journal Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office for Victims of Crime, a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, will award over $35 million in Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Human Trafficking. The […]

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Huge explosions rock Beirut with widespread damage, injuries

August 4, 2020 The Associated Press

BEIRUT — Massive explosions rocked downtown Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings and blowing out windows and doors as a giant mushroom cloud rose above the capital. Witnesses saw many people […]

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Who’s who on the committee vetting Biden’s possible VPs

August 4, 2020 Bill Barrow, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Vice presidential searches make for perhaps the most popular of Washington parlor games: veepstakes. The 2020 version now rests with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. If he defeats President Donald Trump, his pick […]

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US Embassy in Moscow: No info on Paul Whelan’s whereabouts

August 4, 2020 The Associated Press

MOSCOW — The US Embassy in Moscow said Tuesday it had no information on the whereabouts of an American convicted in June of espionage, despite reports that he is being transferred to a prison colony […]

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MULLIGAN: Victim or victory? 

August 4, 2020 Aimee Mulligan

I have often joked it wasn’t until I attended college I learned as a woman I was “oppressed.” I did not grow up in a home with a victimhood mentality, where I was taught that […]

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Latino leaders urge better promotion of free virus tests

August 4, 2020 Anita Snow, Associated Press

PHOENIX — When some 45,000 coronavirus test kits went unused during a 12-day testing blitz in Phoenix’s hardest-hit Latino neighborhoods, it was clear Arizona health officials failed to adequately spread the word to a community […]

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Sorry, boomers: millennials and younger are new US majority

August 4, 2020 Mike Schneider, Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Sorry, boomers. Millennials and their younger siblings and children now make up a majority of the U.S. population. A new analysis by the Brookings Institution shows that 50.7% of U.S. residents were […]

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