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Plainly, our wish in this space a year ago today for a Happy New Year for Robeson County was not granted. The search for good-news stories from Robeson County to include in today’s Page 1A story...
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here were, according to officials with the Department of Social Services, 1,059 Robeson County children ages 1 to 13 who opened Christmas presents on Sunday morning because of the benevolence of h...
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There is growing evidence that motorists who are talking on cell phones are a road hazard, with some studies concluding that their threat is similar to — or even greater than — that of a drunken d...
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The Racial Justice Act ought to be a good thing. Its intent, to take the black, white and red out of the courtroom and achieve the ideal of a color-blind judicial system, is noble, if fleeting, an...
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et’s begin with this stipulation: There could have been confusion during the recent Fairmont municipal election, but that occurrence does not mean there was a malicious and deliberate attempt by e...
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This past weekend’s Mid-Atlantic Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention never reached full flight, inviting criticism of the decision to move the event to the fall from its previous date in May. B...
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3 months ago | 0 | 8 |
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The Unified Robeson County Branch of the NAACP in a recent letter to the Lumber River Council of Governments implies that the county Board of Commissioners is trying to pull a fast one when it com...
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The United Way of Robeson County has one of those can’t-win decisions. No matter what it decides regarding funding for the troubled Southeastern Family Violence Center, there will be second opinio...
7 months ago | 1 | 26 |
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Robeson County last week was a major player in a court hearing in Raleigh that could chart the path of education in North Carolina for the distant future, and most certainly will for the near futu...
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There were 20,000 good reasons for legislation that the General Assembly approved last week lifting the cap of 100 for charter schools in North Carolina. According to the Associated Press, 20,000 ...
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The budget that Gov. Bev Perdue will either sign or veto is Exhibit A that the Republicans in the General Assembly are adamant in their campaign pledge to cut taxes. Despite enormous and growing p...
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At this point, offering an opinion on John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator and two-time presidential candidate, seems like piling on as he has become a punch line for late-night comedia...
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