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Be sure to do Google survey to help county bid
Rutherford County needs our help – and by Rutherford County, I mean we need each others help.
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So, just how should you be investing right now?
The recession has devastated our wealth. Household wealth is off almost 20 percent from its pre-recessionary peak in 2007. No decrease in wealth in the last 50 years has even come close to this dr...
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‘The Politician’ — It’s Andrew Young’s story, too
The first questions many people want to ask Andrew Young about his best selling book, The Politician.
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Buying milk from a hardware store
RALEIGH ­— Would you pay a gardener to fix your car’s breaks? Would you go to a hardware store to buy a gallon of milk?
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We are never able to walk the road of life alone
The reality of the human experience is we are motivated out of need and oriented to experience.
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Health insurers are not the villains in this story
RALEIGH – If you want to know why President Obama, leaders of the Democratic Congress, and their allies in activist groups and the press are trying to sell their health care program by bashing i...
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MJROTC shooting team are a great example
When R-S Central High’s corps of Marine Corps JRTOC cadets went to Camp Perry, Ohio for a rifle competition last week, many of their competitors had no idea where Rutherford County was. But the...
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Random bits of nonsense add up to revelations
Good morning (or afternoon), reading public. Today marks the second installment of “Total Mom Sense’s Nonsense.” Enjoy!
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N.C. Republicans hopeful, but it’s still very early
RALEIGH — Republican political activists see another 1994 about to unfold before their collective eyes.
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On Ocracoke Island, they still talk about pirates
On Ocracoke Island they still talk about pirates.
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A cleansing of the Temple of God will take place
With the season of Lent now here, a consideration of this important and necessary season is more than relevant considering our world and the condition of the visible church.
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Policy no substitute for character
RALEIGH — Back in December, Gov. Beverly Perdue decided that she should put some new rules in play for the folks whom she was appointing to policy-making boards and commissions.
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Big questions are facing North Carolina now
RALEIGH – As one of the nation’s chief political battlegrounds for decades, North Carolina has never lacked for breaking news or interesting trends.
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Citizen involvement key to making communities work
Covering a lot of meetings around the county each month can get tedious sometimes. But just as often I get the chance to learn about a new initiative or project that some citizen group is working ...
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Do we really need warning labels on everything?
Does it seem to anyone else but me that everything – and I do mean everything – comes with a warning label these days?
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