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    Healthy News

    posted January 25, 2007
    Writing for Health Care News, a publication of the Heritage Foundation, Joe Coletti reports on New York’s move to provide HSA’s for a certain cross-section of families within the…
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    NCEA Growth and Development

    posted January 14, 2007
    Following the release of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Work Force‘s final report,  Lindalyn Kakadelis was asked by Kentucky’s Boiling Green Daily News to elaborate…
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    Key Right-to-Work Decision

    posted January 14, 2007
    George Leef, vice president for research at the Pope Center for Higher Education, has been keeping an eye on labor unions and the right-to-work movement for some time now. His…
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    What and Where to Grow

    posted January 14, 2007
    There is still debate as to whether the UNC system should expand to Rocky Mount. To think that N.C. Wesleyan College, the proposed site for the Rocky Mount expansion, is…
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    Political Possibilities

    posted January 14, 2007
    Settling in for some intense stalemating, pundits across the nation are sharpening their pencils and polishing their No-Doze in anticipation for the first square off between the dusted-off Democrats and…
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    History Lecture

    posted January 14, 2007
    Recently, Troy Kickler delivered a lecture entitled “Demanding Government Responsibility: The Regulators in Colonial North Carolina” to the Rowan County History Club (63 in attendance.)  During the presentation, he paid…
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    State and Local Initiatives

    posted January 14, 2007
    One of the issues the General Assembly is set to address is whether or not to create a tax credit for the working poor. Roy Cordato told the Wilmington Star-News…
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    Legislative Possibilities

    posted January 4, 2007
    The New Year has brought changes to JLF.  Perhaps the most exciting of these is the addition of Becki Gray.  Heading up a new outreach program for the Foundation –…
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    Urbanized

    posted January 4, 2007
    According to the Urban Dictionary, as posted by Jon Sanders on JLF’s Triangle Blog, Right Angles, Durham District Attorney, Mike Nifong, has been turned into a verb. Yes, now…
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    Managing Differences

    posted January 4, 2007
    From the Supreme Court Case that gave the nod to racial preferences in higher education, comes George Leef‘s assessment of the ruling in The Freeman. “When it comes…

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