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Get ready to file your 2011 tax return
You’ll be receiving your W-2 and 1099 income forms in the next few weeks. Your 1099 for bank interest and 1098 for mortgage interest paid in 2011 should show up in the same time frame. When they...
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Who teaches us how to live—and die?
Alzheimer’s. Just the word scares you to death, doesn’t it? A few years ago, I saw an article that described and gave examples of a new mental test that can make a very reliable preliminary di...
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You Decide: Should you buy local?
There’s a movement afoot to change how we buy. It’s not about how much we buy or even the kinds of products we buy. Instead, it’s directed at the origins of what we buy and where we buy. Broadly s...
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The ACC’s first 20 years
Just as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is poised to expand again, North Carolina’s basketball victory over South Carolina in Las Vegas last week brought back memories. They are memories of ...
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Class warfare, codified
When I was growing up, I knew a lot of kids whose fathers didn’t earn a living working in the bowels of a factory like my dad. Their dads were businessmen, doctors and bankers, but our families ...
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Remembering Thanksgiving after 9-11
Ten years ago, still reeling from the events of September 11, I tried to put Thanksgiving in perspective and wrote the following: I have been waiting for this Thanksgiving holiday week. Ever...
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A less super America will be happier
by Froma Harrop
Op/Ed
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Froma Harrop Op/Ed A perceived decline in “national greatness” haunts Americans of all political persuasions. Many equate it with the drop in our superpower status. But others ask, “Are the co...
Another Nov. 11, 180 years ago
by D.G. Martin
One-on-One
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D.G. Martin One-on-One Eleven-eleven-eleven. Nov. 11, 2011. It will be remembered by many of us as the day Carolina beat Michigan State in the inaugural NCAA Carrier Classic on the deck of t...
Still weaving for a living
by D.G. Martin
One-on-One
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There was a time when events near Kinston a few days ago would have been headline news. Here is what happened. A Russian military-style cargo airplane took off from the Kinston Regional Jetport ...
Honoring our veterans
by Wesley Meredith
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Today we honor the bravest men and women our county has ever known: our veterans. Life in the military is not an easy one. Milestones big and small are missed. From the first words and the home ru...
You Decide: Why has economic inequality increased?
by Dr. Mike Walden
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
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One of the issues driving the protesters on Wall Street and in other cities is a perceived increase in economic inequality in the country. They see a growing gap between those with more income and...
Top screwups soctors (and politicians) make
by D.G. Martin
One-on-One
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What are the top screwups that politicians make? Joe and Terry Graedon, radio hosts of “The People’s Pharmacy,” have a new book, “Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them.” Could politi...
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    by D.G. Martin
    One-on-One
    10.26.11 - 09:00 am
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    by D.G. Martin
    One-on-One
    10.24.11 - 09:00 am
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    by Dr. Mike Walden
    North Carolina Cooperative Extension
    10.23.11 - 09:00 am
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    by Connie Schultz
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    by CongresswomanVirginia Foxx
    10.05.11 - 09:00 am
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    by Dr. Mike Walden
    North Carolina Cooperative Extension
    09.24.11 - 09:00 am
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