This Old State

Jack Betts on North Carolina people, politics,
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Scourge of the FDA: the late Rep. L.H. Fountain, D-N.C.

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Readers appalled at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's failure to closely monitor a peanut plant operations in Blakely, Georgia and...
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Bev and I-485: How will she do it?

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So, how is it that under the Easley administration the completion of the last remaining unbuilt segment of Interstate 485 around Charlotte c...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Of smokes, votes and folks

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Tobacco's hold on the N.C. General Assembly has long been a tight one, and efforts to adopt a bill prohibiting smoking in restaurants an...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

'Liberty and Freedom' in North Carolina

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Serious students of North Carolina history will want to take a look at "Liberty and Freedom: North Carolina's Tour of the Bill of R...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The endless debate: Jim and Jesse

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Public Policy Polling's findings about how Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms are viewed these days (Hunt with an edge, but not a huge one) was a...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Judge's poker ruling mirrors Black's view

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Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning has in effect sided with former House Speaker Jim Black, the disgraced Mecklenburg Democrat ...
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Burr understands value of siding with local folks

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U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., has made it clear where he stands on the Navy's continuing quest for an Outlying Landing Field in either...
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