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14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Slidehuge, Wages, Economy, Employment, Slidepoll, Jobs, Job Growth, Recession, Austin Texas, Texas, Unemployment, Salary, Economic Growth, Technology, North Carolina, Business News

Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

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Help 'Lift Up' Ellie Potvin, Eight Year Old With Rare Cancer

HuffPost | Tam Vo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Charlotte, Rhabdomyoarcoma, Cancer, Ellie Potvan, Childhood Cancer, North Carolina, Impact News

Ellie Potvin was only six years old when she was diagnosed with stage 4 rhabdomyoarcoma, a rare childhood cancer, in July of 2008. Ellie's parents...

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Hickory, N.C.: How One Town Has Been Ravaged By Globalization

Peter Whoriskey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Economy, Foreign-Trade, Globalization, Trade Adjustment Assistance, North Carolina, Fiscal Policy, Business News

HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside ...

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Deer Swims Laps In North Carolina Pool (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Deer, Animal Stories, Wild Animals, North Carolina, Deer Swims Laps, Animals, Deer Swiming Pool, Cute Animals, Green News

In Gastonia, North Carolina, a deer crashed through a ceiling into an indoor swimming pool. The deer circled the pool, and then jumped in. Once in t...

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Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Pied Piper, Obama Right-Wing Smears, Health Care Reform, North Carolina, Medicare, Virginia Foxx, Barack Obama, House Health Care Bill, Obama Smears, Politics News

During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.

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PepsiCo's $1.26 BILLION Case: Two Men Claim Pepsi Stole Their Idea To Sell Bottled Water

Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Joe Jacuzzi, PepsiCo.'s $1.26 Billion Case, Charles Joyce, David Van Dyke, James Voigt, Pepsi, Pepsi Trade Secrets, North Carolina, Pepsico, Business News

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Two men who claim PepsiCo stole their idea to sell bottled water sued the snack and drink maker in Wisconsin and won a $1.26 billion...

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Strange Sleepers: Artist Puts Mannequins In Compromising Positions (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mannequins Sleeping, Mark Jenkins, Mannequins, Sleeping Mannequins, Winston-Salem, Mark Jenkins Mannequins, North Carolina, Comedy News

Artist Mark Jenkins did an installation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of mannequins in odd positions. Some were sleeping (see below), some were div...

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roger and Me, Barbara Boxer, Fair Elections Now Act, Houses, Lobbyists, Vermont, Connecticut, Jobs, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Contributors, Arizona, California, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Mexico, New Jersey, Clean Money, Maine, Senator Barbara Boxer, iPhone App, Foreclosure, Congressman Henry Waxman, North Carolina, California Fair Elections, Participatory Democracy, S. 752, H.R. 1826, Campaign Finance, Congress, Democracy, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Sicko, Insurers, Corporations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Corporate Greed, Medical Treatment, Iphone, Banks, Michael Moore, Republicans, Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Healthcare, Fena, Hardball, Anderson Cooper, Msnbc, Chris Matthews, Cnn, Politics News

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Book Burning: North Carolina Church To Destroy "Satan's Books"

Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Religion, Religious Extremism, Censorship, Book Burning, Books, North Carolina, Books News

A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James ve...

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Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress!

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Women, Marriage, Politics, Congress, Alienation of Affection, Divorce, Sex, John Edwards, Mississippi, Love, Chip Pickering, North Carolina, Politics News

An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.

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Ken Lewis Retiring: Bank Of America CEO To Step Down By End Of 2009

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Charlotte, Ken Lewis Out, Merrill Lynch, Ken Lewis Retirment, Shareholders, Retiring, Wall Street, Bailout, Ken Lewis, Retirement, Bank of America, Ceo, Kenneth Lewis, Bofa, Ken Lewis Retiring, North Carolina, Business News

NEW YORK — Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company, succumbing to nearly a year of strife that followed hi...

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When Your Dorm Goes Green And Local

nytimes.com | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: University, Permaculture, Leed, Local Food, College, Ecodorm, Sustainability, Warren Wilson College, Green Living, Schools, Ecodesign, North Carolina, Green News

Thoreau said education often made straight-cut ditches out of meandering brooks. But not at the EcoDorm, which houses 36 undergraduates and is the spi...

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The Real Reason They Want ACORN to Fail

Will Bunch | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn Voter Fraud, Acorn Voter Registration, Rush Limbaugh, Acorn, Hannah Giles, James O'keefe, Philadelphia Daily News, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Fox News, Glenn Beck, North Carolina, Politics News

The reality -- that ACORN is an established group with worthy goals and some success but also poor management -- is not what's driving the story. Conservatives want to destroy ACORN and the things it does. Period.

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Atlanta Flooding: 3 Killed, 5 Missing As Storms Drench Southeast

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home

ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...

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Raymond Cook: Doctor Kills Ballerina Elena Shapiro In DUI Crash: Police (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.16.2009 | Home

Elena Bright Shapiro was a 20-year-old ballerina with a promising career ahead of her. She died Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, when the car she was driving w...

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Crystal Lee Sutton, the Real "Norma Rae," Was a Fighter to the End

Bruce Raynor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Labor, Workers, Labor Unions, Unions, North Carolina, Norma Rae, Living News

Our nation lost a great hero and champion of working people. Crystal Lee Sutton was an inspiration to every worker who holds out hope and is prepared to fight for justice and respect at work.

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Marines Take Risks With Deadly Trust-Building Game

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Marines Training, Marines, North Carolina, US Marines, Home News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his late-night mov...

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No Blacklisters Please: Decency in P3 Contracting

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dulles Airport Expansion, Dorchester Tunnel, Balfour Beatty, United Kingdom Informaiton Commissioner, Public-Private Partnerships, Connecticut, Texas, p3, North Antelope Rochelle Mine, Chicago Parking Meters, California, Public Works, Highway 130, Virginia, City of Norwalk Parking Authority, Economic League, Blacklisting, Wyoming, LAZ Parking, Metro Goldline, Alfred Cunningham Bridge, Privacy, Massachusetts, Alameda Corridor, North Carolina, Illinois, Vinci, Politics News

The United Kingdom Information Commissioner recently named Balfour Beatty and LAZ Parking Company's parent, Vinci, as having funded a secret 15-year long blacklisting operation.

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Tropical Storm Danny Headed Toward New York, New Jersey

AP | KEVIN MAURER | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Rain, Tropical Storm Danny, New York, East Coast, Hurricane Danny, North Carolina, Weather, New Jersey, New York News

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — Coastal residents looked ahead Friday to a late-summer weekend with fewer beach-loving tourists as Tropical Storm Danny k...

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Obama's Beach Books -- and Yours

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

The thing about beach books -- or even "beach books" -- isn't the total tonnage of the entire pile. It's the glow of the glorious possibilities.

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R.C. Soles, North Carolina Lawmaker, Allegedly Shoots Intruder

Miami Herald | Mark Johnson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lawmaker Shoots Intruder, North Carolina Lawmaker Shoots Intruder, North Carolina, North Carolina Lawmaker, r.c. Soles, Politics News

State Sen. R.C. Soles apparently shot one of two would-be intruders at his home just outside Tabor City, N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for ...

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Bermuda, U.S. Coast Warned As Hurricane Bill Stays Offshore

AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Bermuda, Hurricane Bill Forecast, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Hurricane Bill, Georgia, South Carolina, Coastal Flooding, North Carolina, Home News

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...

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Our Insane Summer: Is There a Way Out? Plus an Open Letter to the Secretary of Education [UPDATED]

John Milewski | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Health Care Town Halls, Education, Fear Mongering, Arne Duncan, Charter Schools, Bright Idea, Demagogue, Transformation, Race to the Top, Hugh Osborn, Town Hall Protests, Education Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Public Policy Debate, North Carolina, Politics News

As we enter the back-to-school phase of the calendar, I want to share some good news and offer some unsolicited advice to our nation's education top cop.

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Rocky Mount North Carolina On Edge As 9 Women Vanish

AP | ALYSIA PATTERSON | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home

Read More: North Carolina Women Missing, North Carolina, Crime, Rocky Mount Women Missing, Rocky Mount North Carolina, Home News

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts...

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Sotomayor, Obama, and the Looming Republican Race Problem

William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, South, Sonia Sotomayor, John McCain, North Carolina, Michelle Obama, Birther, Manchurian Candidate, Obama Birth Certificate, Watergate, Gordon Liddy, Video, Politics News

The "Manchurian Candidate" fantasy is alive and well in Republican ranks. And is it a long-term problem that they are largely opposed to the first black president and first brown Supreme Court justice?...You bet.

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