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MATTHEW SWAIN COLUMN: Senators need to do more to protect jobs

For decades the Chinese Communist Party has been determined to surpass the United States as a global leader ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Growing states have enviable problems

RALEIGH — North Carolina is no longer the best state in which to do business. Don’t worry — ...

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LARRY PENKAVA COLUMN: My green thumb wilted on the vine

As a boy I never knew what was the point of growing a garden. Just look at it ...

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: Would Jesse Helms support Mark Robinson?

If Jesse Helms were alive, would he be supporting the gubernatorial candidacy of Mark Robinson, the state’s current ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Shooting should shock the conscience

RALEIGH — Enough. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a despicable and indefensible act that came within a ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: On schools and sports, follow evidence

RALEIGH — Having spent most of my career commissioning, editing or writing about public policy research, I understand ...

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MIKE WALDEN COLUMN: Have cities reached their peak?

I grew up in a rural region outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1950s and early ‘60s. Our ...

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DOUG CREAMER COLUMN: Time flies

Why does time move so quickly when we are on vacation? I just had a little time off ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: We need more hospital competition

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s hospital sector has undergone lots of mergers and acquisitions over the past decade. Now ...

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: Where the Revolutionary War was won

Last week we celebrated the anniversary of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. This declaration, important as ...

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