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A group seeking COVID-related records from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to take its case.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2026 @ 12:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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According to sources, local Gen Z girl Katniss Smith spent over 2 hours today painstakingly eliminating all capital letters and punctuation from various texts and social media posts to make it appear like she wasn't trying too hard.
Published: Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 @ 11:03 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Ever since our 2014 vacation to Normandy and the D-Day sites, I think of Veterans Day in an entirely new light.
Published: Thursday, November 11th, 2021 @ 7:55 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Justice protected, justice served
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2020 @ 8:48 pm
By: LifeZette
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Not a chance. Instead we turned Black Friday into Beautiful Biking Friday. With no crowds at the Greenway, temps in the 60's and sunny skies, it was a perfect day.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Remarks by President Trump at the Presidential Social Media Summit
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 12:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Normally, I think of the Grand Jury being my protection or stop gap between overly enthusiastic prosecutors and the court system.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2019 @ 7:23 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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We have invited the nation's - our great nation's newly elected governors. And some really terrific people. They're going to do a wonderful job.
Published: Monday, December 17th, 2018 @ 3:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There was a time when the newspaper appeared once a week allowing 6 days for the journalist to research the facts and readers to study the previous edition.
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2018 @ 1:26 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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That's the title of a Wall Street Journal article by Oliver Kamm. Horrors! For a dyed in the wool grammar geek and word nerd, this article was hard to take.
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:15 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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We'll be spending Thanksgiving Day with friends this year. Our host will cook the turkey on his Green Egg, and we'll all bring side dishes.
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 3:59 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Remember when anything anti-Clinton was deemed the product of a vast right-wing conspiracy? Well I just had a flash: Donald Trump running for the Republican nomination exists because of a vast LEFT-WING conspiracy.
Published: Thursday, April 28th, 2016 @ 12:43 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Ah yes, Daylight Saving Time is here, but I try not to let that change affect my morning routine.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2016 @ 8:17 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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With a nod to Bob Dylan, the words they are a-changin', and I find plenty of the changes disconcerting.
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2016 @ 5:52 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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This column was dictated by Lord Banjo the family dog. He's too much of an aristocrat to do his own typing.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 @ 4:37 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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That's the title of a Wall Street Journal article by Oliver Kamm. Horrors! For a dyed in the wool grammar geek and word nerd, this article is hard to take.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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It's happening again: a topic catches my eye and suddenly I see it everywhere until usually it disappears. The topic of cursive writing or the lack thereof caught my attention a few years back but has yet to show any signs of fading away.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 @ 12:07 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Running through my brain this week are thoughts of the disorientation I experience when we "spring forward" each year.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2016 @ 10:51 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Actually, the question is, "how smart do others think you are?" I found this article in the WSJ fascinating: How to Look Smarter.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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In the world of Modern Education things are a changing.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2016 @ 5:10 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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For me, it's always been red. Anyone who knows me has heard me say that the only colors I need in my closet are black, white, red and purple.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 @ 11:37 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Surely you know what this is. I define it as random thoughts flitting in out of my brain when I'm busily working, thoughts that don't resurface when I might have a chance to act on them, but instead when I'm busily working once again.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 12:27 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Do you keep up with the news on the latest nutrition guidelines?
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 9:05 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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A few years back, the song Auld Lang Syne popped into my head, when my husband got word that a friend from his Air Force days had passed away.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 2:39 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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This blog was inspired by a high school friend who's been taking a trip down memory lane by posting pics on Facebook of the cars he's owned. Following his story has made me think that I'm a bit of an oddball in that I've only owned three cars.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 2:44 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Why? Because TIME magazine just reported that wine, especially red wine is good for you. Yes, I've read similar reports before, but this particular article somehow seemed more convincing to me.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 8:13 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I seem to have a problem keeping watches, and I had a sudden ah-ha today that my problem began the Christmas I was eight years old.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I cannot stop thinking about college campuses and freedom of speech or lack thereof, and for the first time in my writing life, I feel compelled to take on a controversial topic.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:06 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I know, I know, we just finished Thanksgiving, but Christmas is right around the corner, and I always want things a bit neater around the house before I start decorating.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:50 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I've had a few cats through the years, starting with Baggins and Swoop. We were in our Lord of the Rings phase when we named them - long before there were Lord of the Rings movies.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Please join us for the Christmas season at our home. Imagine shaking a snow globe and seeing a home with a red front door and a smiling snowman standing beside it.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:15 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Six people sat down on a Raleigh street - connected by PVC pipe (for some reason) a little while back to protest the actual enforcement of immigration laws by the state.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Tis the time of year when we think of "Peace on earth, good will toward men," so it was fitting that my yoga teacher opened one of our December classes by reading this text from ancient India.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:16 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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