Category: Business
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Anchors aweigh, or, winning the lottery for real
MANY AMERICANS DREAM about winning the lottery. Some of them so much so that they are willing to buy lottery tickets to try to do it – which indicates that…
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Which are they, voter-owned or tax-payer-extorted elections?
CHAPEL HILL CALLS its "clean-elections" local ordinance "Voter-Owned Elections." Who could be against that? Somebody? Anybody? OK, if none of you will volunteer, I guess that leaves me. Advocates of…
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How a gracious Jeff Saturday found the light
LIKE "THE PURLOINED LETTER" in the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, offensive linemen like Jeff Saturday are hidden in plain sight. Every snap of the football that goes to…
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Pluggin’ in in 2011: Can electric cars save the planet?
THE OTHER DAY my tennis buddy Bob Clark and I went to Raleigh to Plug-In 2011, a conference on electric and hybrid electric vehicles. We carpooled in his Jetta SportWagen…
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Renewed McCarthy, revived Bergen back in limelight
DECATUR, Mich. – For years fans have wondered what happened to Charlie McCarthy, the mischievous dummy who paired with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen in a long and successful career on stage…
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Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics: Facts that speak for themselves
EVER WONDER WHY THE RECOVERY from this current recession is taking so long? Historically, sharp economic declines are followed by steep bounces back up. But not this time. The other…
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Extemporizing on temporary taxes, North Carolina edition
THE LAST TAX, THE LATEST TAX, the next proposed tax, is, as always, "just." (By "just" I don't mean justified or righteous, I mean "mere" as in "just one cent.")…
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Crime and pun-ishment: There oughta be a law
This week's column is taken straight from local agency reports. Orange County police blotter UNC campus police report that a graduate assistant doing a large-scale experiment with caustic liquids was…
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Think you have problems? My wife left me for a younger man
A FEW WEEKS AGO my wife left me for another man. (I know what some of you who know her are thinking, but no, it was not Earl Scruggs –…
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A real emergency in North Carolina mental health
NOT LONG AGO, I was at the North Carolina General Assembly as part of the Coalition 2000 Advocacy Days looking for legislators to lobby about improving the current sad state…
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