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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Let’s reform how we pay teachers

RALEIGH — During the just-ended 2024 election campaign, candidates for offices such as governor, legislature, county commission, and ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Trump won the ‘Double Haters’

RALEIGH — The 2024 election cycle will be one for the history books — be they about American ...

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D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: Month of many holidays

November is full of special days and holidays. This year one of the most important was Election Day, ...

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BOB AT THE MOVIES: ‘Venom: The Last Dance’

The last time audiences saw superpowered alien symbiote Venom (Tom Hardy) and his human “host” Eddie Brock (also ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: North Carolinians make a familiar choice

RALEIGH — To describe North Carolina as one of America’s chief political battlegrounds is a well-worn cliché. I’ve ...

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D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: The military and UNC

My wife Harriet and I were grateful last month to be invited to the Annual Tar Heel Tribute ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Candidates should have talked about roads

RALEIGH — During the homestretch of the 2024 election, I complained repeatedly about the absence of serious engagement ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: When Carolina ladies made history

RALEIGH — Over the next couple of years, you’ll hear a great deal about the 250th anniversary of ...

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The protection of children

Politics is a messy business and often under the best of circumstances the truth gets twisted to imply ...

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LARRY PENKAVA COLUMN: Who says we watched TV by candlelight?

To those Millennials who seem to think I grew up in the Stone Age (I’m lookin’ at you, ...

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