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Susanna Rodell, guest columnist, says horse sport is appropriate for Anne Romney and others
OK, people, lay off Ann Romney.
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Column: Banking is an ethical profession
Recent economic events and the Great Recession have reduced the confidence that individuals, families and businesses once had in the banking industry. Bankers must now recommit to serving as ethical and involved financial advisors.
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Column: Black bears want back in the Piedmont
Piedmont black bears were abundant when the Moravians first arrived. They wrote in their diaries about the high quality of bear meat and bear fat. Bears were a delicacy, and hunted hard. As the human population increased, bears were eventually eliminated from the Piedmont due to heavy hunting and habitat loss as the forests they depended on were cleared for farming.
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Column: Anne Civitano on her son's second deployment
My son (John Civitano, Mount Tabor, class of 2009) had been back from Afghanistan only for six months when he announced that he was returning for a second deployment. The news was delivered like a gift, or a bomb. One of the first things that I discovered is that Deployment 2 (the sequel) will be quite different from the original.
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Column: A mother's plea for protecting children
As a mother, I care about my children above all else. I devote nearly every hour and all of my prayers to helping them build strong character and a bright future. I know they'll make mistakes, and I welcome the opportunity to help them learn from those missteps, pay their dues and move on to better things.
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Column: Wilt Browning on the NFL's big problem
Junior Seau and Ray Easterling are dead, the National Football League has a problem, and it is likely that no one understands the consequences as well as people living within the circulation footprint of the Winston-Salem Journal.
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Nathan Tabor, guest columnist: Joines, Obama whitewash economic picture
Question: How does a local politician stump for a president of the United States who presides over arguably the worst economy since the Great Depression?
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Voting with their wheels
Analytical authors who lead America’s national introspection seem unanimous in believing that we have lost the will to vote. They cite declining voter numbers recorded by boards of elections across the country.
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Column: Garrou says Tillis seeks to define "personal"
N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis' partial response to the disclosure that two of his highest-ranking staffers were engaged in liaisons with lobbyists — stunning conflicts of interest — was that "personal life should remain personal." Apparently, he is counting on the women of North Carolina to miss the irony of a Republican leader defending personal choices.
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Column: Correcting racial bias in the death penalty
On April 20, N.C. Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks removed Marcus Robinson from death row, ruling that racial discrimination had tainted his trial and sentencing. As required by the N.C. Racial Justice Act, Robinson was not set free, but resentenced to life without the possibility of parole. This was the first case heard under the Racial Justice Act and it should give us pause as we consider what is and has been happening in our state's criminal-justice system.
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Column: Crosby Scholars accomplishes great things
The phrase "hiding your light under a bushel" could have been invented to describe the Crosby Scholars program. By 2015, the Crosby Scholars in county schools in grades 6 through 12 will number 10,000, or nearly half the student population in those grades.
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What's ahead for Cuba?
Since college days, that big island just south of us has held a peculiar fascination for me.
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Column: On the six-year-old who was handcuffed
Every teacher I have talked with last week agreed that handcuffing a 6-year-old student is an act that we find unnecessary. Yet we also agreed that we are not teaching in a school environment where the behaviors of the students were, to a high degree, predictable based on their home training.
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Ken Ilgunas, guest columnist: An intolerable intolerance
Last week, Rep. Virginia Foxx offered the nation's 36 million student debtors a lesson in tolerance.
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Sarah Woodard David, guest columnist: Germanton landmark is worth preserving
To most people from Winston-Salem, Germanton is a wide spot in the road on the way to Hanging Rock State Park. But when you get to Germanton, you know it; not because of a billboard or sign, but because St. Philip's Episcopal Church stands forward, shoulders back and head held high, saying, "You're here! You're in a place! You are in Germanton!"
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Column: Geoff Lassiter on Opening Day
Opening night at BB&T Ballpark. Excitement. You could feel it in the air.
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Exclusive book excerpt: Best-selling author Edwin Black on N.C.'s sterilization program
This is an exclusive, edited excerpt from the new expanded edition of Edwin Black's best-selling book, "War Against the Weak" (Dialog Press), to be released worldwide next week. The award-winning book on American and Nazi eugenics contains a special new appendix on North Carolina, which will be explained at a launch event at the Legislative Auditorium in Raleigh at noon April 25. Rep. Earline Parmon of Winston-Salem will introduce the event.
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Column: A meeting today will confront health-care disparities
Too many of our citizens continue to experience inequities in health and health care. I call it "our nation's tragedy."
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Column: Winston-Salem really is where the wild things are
My shortcut to the grocery store includes a half-mile walk along the old railroad tracks near Wake Forest University Medical Center. The starting point at the bridge is trashy — graffiti under the bridge, empty spray paint cans, broken bottles, beer cans, old mattresses, etc. There used to be a guy who slept under the bridge. I accidentally woke him one morning — I tried to sneak by him and stepped on a can. He sat bolt upright, I said, "Morning," he said, "Morning," and I took off. His sheets are still there, wadded up and covered with red clay. I think I should clean up his mess, then I think, "Naw."
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Column: Here's a healthy alternative to the Barstool Blackout tour
Today the Barstool Blackout tour is set to stop in Winston-Salem. The tour perpetuates the objectification of women based on their physical attributes. Let's face it: Mix college students and alcohol together and there is an increased risk of sexual assault.
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The Anger Games
“The Hunger Games,” an N.C.-shot movie, is a spectacular box office success.
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Column: Alcoa's license not in public interest
As candidates campaign across the state this year, the inevitable common theme of jobs and economic development will repeatedly be trumpeted. The key to North Carolina's future rests with our ability to attract, maintain and expand businesses. Two major resources upon which the success of these efforts depends are water and power.
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Column: Chevara Orrin on some brave but forgotten 'she-roes'
I stumbled across the 10 women quite by accident.
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A salt to savor
We’ll call him Aubry -- though that was not his name -- in deference to his privacy-loving family, who’ve been my good friends since childhood.
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Corinne White, guest columnist: Social media can bring causes to life
In my fifth week studying abroad in Kenya last summer, I wrote an impassioned entry in my journal: "Stop trying to save Africa," I screamed across the page.
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