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ELLIOT: Seven hopes for 2017
Happy new year! At least, we hope it will be a happy one. Two thousand seventeen will have one fewer day than its predecessor, so maybe it won’t be able to foul things up quite […]
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HILL: A look back at 2016¦ 100 years from now
Two thousand sixteen was stunning to those of us living through it. And just consider what it might look like 100 years from now in 2116 when future historians and political commentators look back on […]
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ROBBINS: Back to your raisin in 2017
I grew up in a home with a lot of “old sayin’s.” One that I have relied on most is “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” While there […]
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SON: Resolution Dont do it!
It’s Jan. 1, so I feel obligated to write this one warning: no matter what, don’t join the gym. Not when you are under the enormous pressure to change your life. But one in eight […]
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LETTER: N.C. economy in good trim
North Carolina’s economy generated nearly 129,000 net new jobs in 2016. Companies from Avadim to Yokohama Tire launched exciting business plans with our great state as their backdrop.There’s been no let-up in December: North Carolina’s […]
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THOMAS: Obama to Israel Drop dead
A headline that would become famous appeared in the New York Daily News in October 1975 after then-President Gerald Ford denied federal assistance to spare the city from bankruptcy. It read: “Ford to City: Drop […]
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THOMAS: Obama to Israel Drop dead
A headline that would become famous appeared in the New York Daily News in October 1975 after then-President Gerald Ford denied federal assistance to spare the city from bankruptcy. It read: “Ford to City: Drop […]
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ELLIOT: Revealing a better world
While we sing and pray for peace and prosperity on Earth this Christmas season, the headlines of the past few weeks are ponderous: War, terror, and disaster abroad; political disunity and economic uncertainty at home. […]
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MUNGER: The real Tarheel coup
A Dec. 16 headline in The Atlantic blared: “The Coup Is Over!” Indignation professionals from around our state gathered at the General Assembly to protest, and to be arrested. What happened?The legislature passed several pieces […]
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ELLIOT: Revealing a better world
While we sing and pray for peace and prosperity on Earth this Christmas season, the headlines of the past few weeks are ponderous: War, terror, and disaster abroad; political disunity and economic uncertainty at home. […]