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Tom Campbell | Burning the midnight kilowatts

July 23, 2021 Daily Journal 0

“There’s nothing good going on after midnight that you need to be part of,” my momma repeatedly told me. She was right. Our legislators would do well to heed that advice. No legislation passed after midnight is good for most of our state. Exhibit A is House Bill 951, passed by a 7-vote margin at 12:01 a.m.

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Photo courtesy of ENBF You Pick Blueberries at Eagles Nest Berry Farm, Moore County.
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Blueberries: Healthy, delicious, local

July 23, 2021 Daily Journal 0

Blueberries are in season in North Carolina! In fact, July is a big month for this berry: we celebrate National Pick Blueberries Day and National Blueberry Muffin Day during this month. You will find blueberries plentiful at farmer’s markets, fruit stands, and local grocers here in Richmond county from June to late July. Buying fruits and vegetables in season is also the best time to get great prices.

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Op-Ed

John Hood | Effect of state policy isn’t huge

July 23, 2021 Daily Journal 0

RALEIGH — For years, North Carolina conservatives and progressives argued incessantly about the effects of the state’s rightward turn. Conservatives said lower taxes and less regulation tend to boost entrepreneurship, job creation, and economic growth. Rejecting that position, progressives argued that spending more money on education and other public programs and making greater use of health, safety, and labor regulations would have net-positive results for the economy.

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Opinion | On Medicaid expansion, we must keep pushing

July 23, 2021 Daily Journal 0

For several years now, medical authorities, business leaders and faith leaders — along with newspaper editorial writers — have encouraged the state legislature to institute Medicaid expansion. This would provide medical coverage for North Carolinians who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but too little to qualify for a subsidy on the health-insurance marketplace, aka via the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Statewide, around 500,000 or 600,000 North Carolinians, many of them low-wage workers with few options, are caught in this trap. The lack of medical coverage hurts them and their children.

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Alexander Jones | North Carolina’s future is South Carolina. Republicans are to blame.

July 23, 2021 Daily Journal 0

The valley of humility is about to become an abyss. Over a century ago, a Charlotte newspaperman contrasted North Carolina with its more aristocratic neighbors to the north and South, calling Virginia and South Carolina mountains of conceit and saying that N.C. possessed a contrary spirit of unpretentious virtue. That sense of “exceptionalism” defined the state’s sensibility for a century to come, and would animate its politicians until the year of our lord two-thousand-and-ten, when the forces that had long looked southward with envy took control of a proud state’s government.

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Bo Wagner | Thoughts On Rejection

July 23, 2021 Daily Journal 0

To the best of my recollection, in all of my fifty-one years of life thus far the only places I have ever actually been kicked out of are a funeral and a Bible college cafeteria. Mind you, I do not recount these things for you with any anger. I actually do so with the laughter still rolling inside of me as I think on those things, as I am fairly certain that no one else in the entire history of mankind can truthfully claim to have been kicked out of both a funeral and a Bible college cafeteria.

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