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NCDHHS will allow indoor nursing home visitation Raleigh N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen issued a secretarial order updating visitation guidelines for nursing homes to allow indoor visitation. Indoor visitation will only be permitted in nursing homes with no COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days and in counties with a percent positive testing rate of less than 10%, reflecting guidance from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to the order. “We have focused on protecting the health of nursing home residents since the start of this crisis. Our progress in testing, infection control and slowing the spread of COVID-19 in our communities allows us to move forward with safe indoor visitation in accordance with federal guidance,” said Cohen. NSJ STAFF
Folwell announces ‘AAA’ bond ratings for NC Raleigh State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced that all three major national bond rating agencies have re-affirmed the state’s “AAA” bond rating. North Carolina is one of only 13 states that have an “AAA” rating with all major rating agencies. The ratings were assigned, in part, in preparation for the fourth issuance of $2 billion worth of bonds related to Connect NC projects. “Having the rating agencies affirm our ‘A AA’ bond ratings during these volatile economic times is a credit to the taxpayers of North Carolina and the General Assembly for their strong fiscal management,” said Folwell. “Maintaining our ‘A AA’ rating will help us finance debt at the lowest possible rates, making more money available for public education, public roads and the other core functions of government.” NSJ STAFF
Azerbaijan and Armenia brush off suggestion of peace talks Yerevan, Armenia Leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia brushed off the suggestion of peace talks, accusing each other of obstructing negotiations over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with dozens killed and injured in three days of heavy fighting. In the latest incident, Armenia said one of its warplanes was shot down by a fighter jet from Azerbaijan’s ally Turkey, killing the pilot, in what would be a major escalation of the violence. Both countries accused each other of firing into their territory outside of the Nagorno-Karabakh area on Tuesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cabarrus County school board censures member for slur Concord A North Carolina school board censured one of its members on Monday for using a derogatory slur in describing a remote learning plan and not realizing her microphone was open. During the Sept. 21 meeting of the Cabarrus County school board, board member Laura Blackwell was heard while off camera agreeing with an unidentified person on the call who said young children should not be kept in front of a computer, news outlets reported. Blackwell used a word that has been used to demean people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. She apologized in a statement last week, calling her use of the slur “insensitive” and “unacceptable.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Trump, Biden meet in first Presidential debate President Donald Trump (left) and Joe Biden (right) speak to supporters last week in appearances in Charlotte. The two candidates met for the first of three debates on Tuesday night in Cleveland.
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Lara Trump rallies with Wake County Republicans Elections’ proposed agreement to make several controversial changes to absentee ballot rules, NEW HILL — Lara Trump Trump said, “I think it’s quite riwas the headliner at a Monday diculous in an election where evening event at a farm in south- people have already started votwestern Wake County to ral- ing to say we’re going to change ly support for President Donald the rules, extend the period of time to submit your absenTrump. Wake County Republicans tee ballot; this is not right. This and other activists from around is not something that should be the triangle gathered at Fin- happening in the United States of America, but sadnigan’s Run Farm in ly it is.” New Hill to hear from She elaboratpresident’s daughter-ined further that the law and Susan Tillis, the “Donald agreement appears wife of U.S. Sen. Thom Trump has to be an effort to Tillis. change rules to benIn her nearly 30-min- said from day efit Joe Biden to try ute speech, Trump and cheat the system, hit President’s Trump one, I want to calling it “shameful.” Democratic rival Joe help with any Trump also said Biden repeatedly, at one violence, any the campaign would point saying that “the push back hard two people most excit- chaos, any against the proposed ed for his run for presi- disturbances. changes, which was dent are Jill and Huntechoed by senior er,” Biden’s wife and son. Some have campaign advisor North State Journal taken him up Josh Kivett. spoke with Mrs. Trump “You don’t try and after the event. Trump, on that, and a graduate of NC State some haven’t, change the rules if you’re in a good poUniversity, commentand they’ve sition,” Kivett said to ed on local protests that NSJ. “They’re strughave turned violent in let down their gling to hit their Raleigh and on the N.C. citizens and numbers so they try State Board of Elecand make these kinds tions’ proposed agree- their small of changes in closed ment to change many businesses.” door meetings. The absentee ballot rules. Democrats on the “Whether its in Rastate board of AG leigh or many oth- Lara Trump Josh Stein have tried er Democrat-run citto enact these policies ies, people need to know who they’re voting for. I think for months and failed.” Trump also talked about some we see now why it’s important to know who your local offi- of the differences she’s expericials are,” said Trump. “Donald enced campaigning four years Trump has said from day one I ago to campaigning this time, want to help with any violence, saying with a laugh, “we’re much any chaos, any disturbances. more organized than we were Some have taken him up on that, four years ago.” She continued: “2016, we had and some haven’t, and they’ve let down their citizens and their no political experience whatsosmall businesses.” See LARA TRUMP, page A2 On the N.C. State Board of By Matt Mercer North State Journal
NC attorney general race in spotlight as crime, protests grab public attention Stein spent much of term battling Trump admin By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The attorney general’s race between Democrat incumbent Josh Stein and Republican challenger Jim O’Neill hasn’t seen much press, but that may change as civil unrest and law and order are increasingly on the minds of voters. The N.C. Department of Justice, Stein and Gov. Roy Cooper have remained relatively quiet on the riots in major cities across the state. O’Neill says this, and what
he calls Stein’s support for “sanctuary city” policies regarding illegal immigration, are putting communities in the state at a greater risk for violent crime. O’Neill thinks his experience as a prosecutor and district attorney are what the state needs in an attorney general, and that this is experience his opponent doesn’t have. O’Neill is currently in his third-elected term as Forsyth County’s district attorney after first being appointed in 2009. He spent a number of years as a prosecutor and was Forsyth County’s first dedicated domestic violence prosecutor. See AG, page A3
Clarence Henderson describes path from 1960 Woolworth’s sit-in to 2020 featured RNC speech By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — Clarence Henderson knows what it’s like to hold his ground despite strong opposition from the majority. That was true in 1960 when he participated in the historic sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter, and it was true in years since as he’s walked the often-lonely path of being a black Republican. But in 2020, Henderson is no longer alone. New energy is being injected into black conservatism by a generation of emerging leaders and organizations, many of them from his home state of North Carolina. Much of the groundwork for the rise of this new black conservative movement was laid by trailblazers like Henderson. While being more-recently known as a celebrated speaker at President Donald Trump’s 2020 Republican National Convention, Henderson’s public activism began in a much different time and place — in 1960 at the Greensboro Woolworth’s segregated lunch counter. Henderson told NSJ in a Sept. 22 interview that he was recruited by one of the protest leaders, a friend since the first grade, to sit at the counter on the second day of the sitin, Feb. 2, 1960. It was on this day that the iconic photograph of four black men, one being Henderson, sitting at the counter was taken. He says this photo “went around the world” and inspired sit-ins at lunch
counters across the country, even places that were already integrated. His motivation for joining the See HENDERSON, page A2
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RESTRICTIONS from page A1 staying on their properties if they are not year-round residents. A similar situation to Surf City’s actions has arisen in Dare and Currituck counties, resulting in the filing of a federal lawsuit byTRUMP six property LARA from pageowners A1 whose permanent residences are in neighboring states. ever, and we were learning as we Law-enforcement checkpoints went. I liken to it building an airhave leadplanebeen whileset in up theon air,roads and we kept ing variousrunning towns and coun-to the into campaign in 2017 ties. make sure we were prepared for The town of Beaufort has a 2020.” chokepoint near about I-70 to Trump talked therepel coalinon-residents. valtion efforts thisOne yearneeds that aweren’t id form of ID around ingovernment-issued 2016, such as Women with a Carteret address, for Trump, BlackCounty Voice for Trump, aLatinos COVID-19 Entry and Pass Cops issued for Trump, for by the town or documents Trump, among others. Theprovcoaliing areprofessionally an essential worker tionsyou “are run and or performing essential we are have a ground an game unlike service. anything the Republican Party Ocracoke also added. requiring has ever seen,”isTrump documentation in order to gain entry to the town. The public’s use of the Atlantic Ocean has been banned by Atlantic Beach, from Salterpage Path, HENDERSON A1 Indian Beach and Emerald Isle. In aprotest joint was presssimply release, thetreated townsas to be said “swimming, kita human being “andsurfing, not anything ing,” and “non-motorized recreless than.” He recounts being treatational water are allofproed poorly in access” many areas pubhibited. lic life at that time, including being Wrightsville officials forced to stand onBeach a long bus trip to already closed beaches to the New Jersey. public butfrom willGreensboro now also beand fining “I left had violators upnot to because $500. Ifthere one were into stand up, cludes court the fine no seats on costs, the bus, but jumps because to $650. there were no seats at the back of in Wilkesboro and theOfficials bus. There were seats in the North Wilkesboro announced front of the bus, but I couldn’tonsit April that only one person per down 8there,” Henderson rememfamily be allowed intobe bered. will “Constantly, youentry would any stores. Children can only walking down the street andacget company if just no other called the them N-word to get suitcalled able person can watch them. the N-word.” Last week, Cooper issued a Because of this frequent degradnew executive he order ing treatment, saidcontaining he was unmultiple new restricsure whatlayers wouldofhappen when he tions the few retail stores still joinedon the protest, but it was someallowed or able remain open. thing he knew heto had to do and that This newbe order begins moment at 5 p.m.of it would a defining April 13 and runs for 30 days. his life. According to executive order “Walking into Woolworth’s that 131, onlya five people perof 1,000 day was different kind experisquare of not retail space orif20% ence forfeet me, knowing I was of fire to marshal posted occupangoing come out in a vertical pocy limits can be in agoing storetoatjail, oneor sition in handcuffs time. Markingsposition must begoing placed in a horizontal to a 6hospital feet apart in areas where peoor the morgue,” Henderple gather, like checkout lines, son said. andHestores must observe cleanavoided serious consequencing measures. Additional es, but many others in the recomresulting mendations in thedid order nationwide sit-ins not.include Henderplastic at registers and son saidshields his movement was about contact-free checkouts. peaceful protests targeted towards The directly order overrides anythem. lothose oppressing cal prohibitions that set a differAsked if he believes Black Lives ent occupancy rate in order to Matter is a continuation of this maintain across the work, he “uniformity” said he doesn’t, because state.” As with are Cooper’s demonstrations often previviolent ous orders, municipaliandexecutive harm uninvolved people who ties and individual stores can enare “just trying to make a living.” act“This even isstricter measuresbetween than the difference described in the newand directives. a non-violent protest a violent The North Carolina-based Fresh protest — one tears down and one Market builds up.”grocery store chain, starting require all At thatApril point14, inwill his life, Henderguests wear a face-covering of son wastonot a Republican; that shift some sort. later. “When I started happened
THE WORD: THE FRUIT OFDOUBTING THE SPIRITTHOMAS THE WORD: GOODNESS IN ACTION
The Second Sunday of Easter approaches, and are The Christians fifth element of reminded of the first Sunday following the Fruit of the SpiritChrist’s resurrection. Jesus had met withwhich most of His disciples after Mary is gentleness, is often translated Magdalene alerted them of His presence. as kindness. One Thomas was not with them when they met of the enduring Jesus, and he said he would not believe in the images in the Bible of resurrection until he had seen the wounds of kindness is Ruth, great the crucifixion for himself. grandmother of King David. Ruth wasafter loyal the resurrection, Thomas Eight days and kind to her motherhad his doubts removed when he saw in-law Naomi after both Jesus and examined His wounds. While were widowed. Ruth’s Jesus blessed willingness to setthose aside who believed in His resurrection based her own desires and on faith, He nonetheless was willing prove Himself to Thomas. safety to helpto Naomi earned her rewards on a devoted and loyal Thomas had proven earth and in posterity. disciple and Jesus did not condemn him for Kindness, which his skepticism. Ruth expressed through other virtues like patience, love and meekness, earned her a place of high honor TRAFFIC from pageasA1 a mother and caregiver. As a foreigner, Ruth failed to produce results. assimilated to Naomi’s some road In the meantime, culture and accepted and bridge projects already have been put on hold. God. Ultimately, she The North Carolina Departbecame an instrument ment of good Transportation has for a larger slashed its expected and was part of the construction projects 131 down to 38 for bloodlinefrom of Jesus.
John 20:27-29 (KJV) 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Caravaggio (c. 1601–1602, currently housed in Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam, Germany).
transportation sales tax revenue, shutting down certain business- causing major traffic backups. Florida announced that it is aces. But some states have not. which also is down. Washington, site of the first celerating work schedules by sev“We were hoping to bid it out for construction very soon, but coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., eral weeks on about $2 billion then COVID-19 and all that, so suspended work on 92 of its 100 worth of bridge and road projects. In Maryland, a westbound that timeline is kind of in the air,” active highway projects as a resaid West Plains administrator sult of a stay-at-home order for lane of the Chesapeake Bay Tom Stehn, a former state high- most workers. The halted proj- Bridge near Annapolis recentway engineer. “It was a high pri- ects include major ones in Seattle ly re-opened to vehicles followand Spokane, as well as improve- ing repairs. The $27 million projority for us.” Though ambulances are run- ments to an Interstate 90 pass ect was completed well ahead of ning as usual and detours are through an avalanche-prone area schedule, partly because of light traffic amid the coronavirus panwell-marked for visitors, “ob- of the Cascade Mountains. Vermont’s entire $200 million demic. viously that direct interchange The declining traffic volumes would be nice,” said Daniel Mar- road construction plan for 2020 shall, chief clinical officer for the is on hold, save for a $6 million have been especially large in some South Howell County Ambulance emergency repair where a storm of the nation’s most famously conwashed out part of the foundation gested metropolitan areas, such District. as the San Francisco Bay area. The city of Bend, Oregon, the on Interstate 89. Business leaders in the region The longer the delay, the greatnation’s seventh-fastest growing metropolitan area over the er the likelihood that some proj- had hoped to put a 1 cent sales tax past decade, pulled a $190 mil- ects might not get finished this on the November ballot that could raise $100 billion over 40 years lion transportation bond off the year. “Every project is sort of at risk for public transit and transporMay ballot. Supporters had concerns about pushing a property of running out of quality weather tation projects in a nine-county tax hike for roads, sidewalks and days to complete the work,” said region. But the coronavirus outbike lanes while local business- Jeremy Reed, construction engi- break interrupted work on state es are suffering financially and neer for the state’s transportation legislation needed to place the measure on the ballot. many residents are without work. agency. It now could be 2022, or even Pennsylvania originally halted “They’re going to show up on PUBLIC DOMAIN voters’ day and just glance and all road construction work. But 2024, before supporters can make another push for a public vote on it has since allowed work to prothink, `I’m not raising my taxes “Boaz and Ruth” (cir. 1640) is a drawing by Rembrandt depicting Boaz and Ruth. Museum of Prints right now, no way!’” said Mike Ri- ceed on 61 critical projects. About the measure, said John Grubb, and Drawings, Berlin. ley, co-chairman of the Go Bend 800 road and bridge projects, at chief operating officer of the Bay Area Council, a business-backed 2020 Coalition that support- $7 billion, remain on hold. By contrast, some states have policy advocacy group. ed the measure. “We’re going to “If we’re in a poor economy, come back to voters, but now just taken advantage of a lull in traffic to speed up transportation which it looks like we’re going to felt like the wrong time.” haveTrump been an Most states have classified road projects. Construction crews have be in, that wouldLara and an awconstruction as essential work been able to shut down highway awful lot of stimulus addresses he said. that can continue despite orders lanes during prime hours without ful lot of job creation,” supporters at a rally in southwestern Wake County on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020.
the upcoming budget year, a $2 billion reduction. Ohio has delayed projects until RUTH 1: 16-17 next year on interstate highways in 16 Columbus and Cincinnati beAnd Ruth said, cause of the expected decline in Intreat not to leave fuel taxme revenue. thee, or to return from shortfall, Faced with a budget followinghas after thee: Missouri postponed $46 million for 18 road bridge projfor whither thou and goest, ects been priorities for I willthat go; had and where local governments. thou lodgest, I will As many as 299 additional projects valued lodge: thy people shall at $785 million could be at risk be my people, andhelp, thy McKenna without federal 17 Where God my God: said. thou diest, will die, Among the I immediate deferments: a new and there will I behighway interchange to provide access Lord dodirect so buried: the to Ozarks Medical to the me, expanded and more also, Center in West Plains. The cenif ought but death part ter’s hospital, physician and spethee and me.are among the area’s cialty clinics largest employers, serving about 40,000 patients in eight rural counties of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. The state had allotted more than $1.2 million to cover half the road construction costs. The otherdid halfsay wasthere to come local She wasfrom something charming about 2016’s campaign as outsiders, but now in 2020 they have accomplishments to point to on the campaign trail. Finally, Trump did indicate she WORSHIP fromher page A1 mawould like to visit alma ter later this year at Carter-Finley Benham others Stadium, withand Gov. Roy showed Cooperup to the aCharlotte clinic after receivallowing limited number of fans. calls that there “Iinghope so,” the she police said, were adding demanding that, “In 2016that thethe lastgroup’s eventmemin bersCarolina leave thewas area. they reNorth at When Carter-Finto leave, were given ley,fused and the crowdeight was amazing —ciof “violation of emergency we tations will work on it. I would love to ROBERT CLARK | NORTH STATE JOURNAL prohibitions be back there.” and restrictions” — a Class 2 misdemeanor. “They’re saying there were 50 people there,” Benham said on the discrepancy between his account and the “official” account. ernor’s Mansion, and then to the “Just look at the video. The video White House.” shows clear evidence. It is a lie. It But being an outspoken Repubis wrong. The police department, lican as a civil rights icon made Charlotte Observer, the mayor’s ofhim at best an “oddity” and to fice — they’re all wrong.” many others, an enemy. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a “A lot of people call me names friend of Benham’s, tweeted out in that you wouldn’t believe to my support of him later the same day, face. But they don’t understand calling the arrest unconstitutional thatROBERT I’m fighting for their freedom,” CLARK | NORTH STATE JOURNAL and saying, “Because elected Dems Henderson said. “One reporter are pro-abortion, they are abusing Attendees of Northwood Temple Church in Fayeteville’s 2020 Eastersaid drive-in service listen in on that when blacks spoke at the their power—in a one-sided way— their radios from inside their cars as Pastor John Hedgepeth delivers his sermon. RNC, we were like a minstrel show. to silence pregnancy counselors.” And a black lady who was a guest Cruz also put a petition on his site on CNN said the same thing. But nion sets, with wafers which asks signatories to “Tell crimination against religious in- ‘drive-in’ services.” my questions to sealed them is: Howand do cupsthink of juice, to call off you the The very next day, Wilming- you Democratic Governor Roy Cooper stitutions and religious believers,” youbut gothad to be where planright to distribute after word that if abortion is ‘essential’ then said Barr in a statement. “Thus, ton police posted that drive-in ser- are now? It them was people like from thewere city.able to put you in the pregnancy services are essential, government may not impose spe- vices “will not be considered a vi- me who “Theywhere said don’t communion, too. Stop discriminating against cial restrictions on religious activi- olation,” so no legal action would position you do have the opporand I’m good I try toyou do ty that do not also apply to similar be taken against the churches, but tunity people of faith!” youado now.man. So how dare what mayor Hedgepeth police still urged “all churches and call U.S. Attorney General Wil- nonreligious activity.” methe some kindsays,” of minstrel?” law-abiding. I want to “Where a state has not acted houses of worship to continue with said. liam Barr has received a flood of He “We’re said the reason so many PHOTO VIA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS dothe things the community way they saidreact and let complaints from religious people evenhandedly, it must have a com- virtual services, including for Eas- in black so them know with ter.” Woolworth's sit-in pellingonreason impose restricaroundHenderson the country (far who,right) like Benstrongly to we’re blackcooperating Republicans is Clarence is pictured Feb. 2,to1960, at the Greensboro them.” In Fayetteville, drive-in ser- misinformation ham,in believe their rights are being tions on places of worship and about what each protest Greensboro. Benham, though, said he will violated by local and state govern- must ensure that those restrictions vices were allowed, and North- party stands for. be cooperating Charare narrowly tailored to advance wood Temple Pentecostal Holi- not ments. “People don’t trust with that which lotte’sdon’t demands his groupsaid to Church an Eastervictim,” service they its compelling Barr’sbecause commu- sector know,”for Henderson “I am not had anybody’s as much asinterest,” possible.”said Barr. ness voting,A Itweet voted from Democrat stopthecounseling women outside at 10 a.m. said. Pastor Hedgepeth must notisbe Henderson nications director, black community’s dis“I John was in business on One issue institutions Henderson believes that’s what I was told to Kerri do.” Kupec, “Religious the abortion clinic, even the told NSJ the singled outimportant for specialtoburdens.” said,remembers “During this once sacred lecturweek for particularly of Republicans. “Theafter Repubmyself for church almost promoted 30 years the in trust the black for He arrest,Party sincehas he believes the city’s celebration and was expecting po- lican Drive-in churchchoice. services have one Americans, AG Barrviews is mon- community been out-strateof the most challenging profesis school ingmany his father with political requests violate letterthat and Ispirtentially of cars. The ser- gized, been in North sions, itoring regulation of religious that’s the the reason got the hundreds financial services indus“Our another kids are touchpoint being held hostage learned in govt college at N.C. A&T and it of the law. vice could heard on 92.7 in FM to involved, especially during the try, services. While socialthedistancing because they were always and wasbe able to compete the a system that has failed them,” being surprised to hear usual- to Carolina, “Heck yeah we are, course,” allow attendees to singthat along the on defense, Wake County gov- industry. policies during heEaster allowing theof other parThat shows alltothe said ofseason. public schools. “We have ly quiet manare withappropriate a 3rd-grade eduBenham asked whethhymns played inside theissanctuary ernmentofmade clear that drive- black thistell emergency, they mustknow be ap- a number to framesaid the when conversation.” community needs the op- ty generations that have cation him that he “didn’t his said group is still present that and listen to Hedgepeth’s sermon erHe in indoctrinated, services wouldnot noteducated.” be permit- portunity.” evenhandedly not single been many people areatopen his plied history” or what the& Republiclinic. “Weabout haven’t stopped. Every a raised platform outside, so all to Some churches, Plymouth from out religious action ted. talking issues and acceptHe said things have changed Henderson said like Democrats cans had done fororgs. blackExpect Americans. dayof they’re open, we’re there.” whilefrom congregants remained in- ing Baptist in to Raleigh, had much from DOJ next week!” different positions on them, slavery to Jim Crow madeChurch promises the black This comment from a man born in have demand for abortheir vehicles. planned tobut have a drive-in service toside Barr once thesaid R-word is said, they modern American society that butBenham have not followed 1908 On stuckTuesday, with him, butannounced did not community, tion down, hasn’t not slowed down,Republiand his churches open. but were forced to cancel, re- this “Other that him his office filed a statement believing opportunity does are existnot now for shut “The Democrat Partyashas change into ahad Republican over- through. group offers a social service that TheyAmericans are going to to succeed. have it by vid- cans ported in support of a church in Missis- been can be authentically black. A There goodbyatCarolina comingJournal. and promis- black night. is federally protected the by online streaming, Gov. Roy made sippi after citythough, fined congrecomment by Joebecause Biden saystillorracism, Henderson said, but “be-I recent but Cooper when you lookclear at it,in iseo, Twenty yearsthe later Hen- ing things, mothers assiswanted do it legislate live,” Hedgepeth his have executive order 121 that reli- cause gants $500 per person fordeepattend- what “You are ain’toffered black” housing if you vote for youto cannot the hu- ing, they done?” derson said he began to delve tance, child-care toldheart,” NSJ. “I to no do longer it in a Trump gious entities Republican were subject Presto the man ing why parking lot services. especially assistance, stung, but menHenbutwanted there are He believes er into he identified with Barr’s the torshipsaid andhe much more. waylaws they’ d never doneintended it. Drive-in. 10-person statement also noted that citizens ident is not swayed by this on the books to derson Donaldlimitation. Trump is pursuing any party that he did. “The day I was arrested, while Drive-up. You can still be private opposition. Thethat Wilmington Police life Departwere permitted attend nearthem back. would improve for hold “When I started to research, I policies I “I was beingrather cuffed, mothers your car.” ment put out a similar directive by drive-in restaurants, even with black would betwo right in the else, except for America, Americans. He listed supportto in“Where found that the Republican Parchose to than go onto the mobile ultrasaida the mayor churchesBlack on April 7 on Facetheirwho windows open. representa- forlocal wrong in the majora kid born on farm, bornsent on minority Historically Colleges and can Hedgepeth ty was was most sound unit and both of them chose rules for side them byexcept when ity.” book, saying they “prohibit any the even in Henderson times of emergenwrong of to theabide tracks, (HBCUs), economic tive of“But my values,” said. Universities life for their kids and are now theywere did no their service, including event or convening that brings to- there when Ireasonable and tempo- opportunity tracks, no birth cerzones, school choice “I’mcy, pro-life; believe in traditional plugged our mentor network,” how many feetonly apart to have the Next gether morejustice than ten individuals rary restrictions are placed weekinto we’ll look at some of parents have a thirdcriminal reform as ar- tificate, marriage; I believe in small govern-on and Benham said. “Two mothers — so vehicles. Northwood Temple had N.C.’s one place rights, Firstthat Amendment and easinTrump rising generation of black education, be invited to first has(indoor workedortooutdoor) improveat grade ment; and the I believe the governwas it worth leaders. it for me? Absolutely.” of commuone time.for This includes ofpurchased federal statutory prohibit dis- conditions all to the hundreds North Carolina Gov- conservative hisprohibition community. ment should stay outlaw of the private
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Proposed agreement to loosen absentee ballot laws sets off political firestorm The two Republicans on the N.C. State Board of Elections submitted resignations By A.P. Dillon and Matt Mercer North State Journal RALEIGH — Last week, the two Republican members of the N.C. State Board of Elections submitted their resignations. David Black of Cabarrus County and Ken Raymond of Forsyth County both resigned from the N.C. State Board of Elections (NCSBE) following a consent agreement between the board and groups suing to loosen absentee ballot laws for the election. The changes to absentee by-mail rules as voting is already underway immediately alarmed Republicans. The consent agreement, negotiated between NCSBE attorneys and plaintiffs represented by Washington, D.C. Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, would effectively undo many ballot safeguards and related changes put in place by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper. The legislative leaders, who intervened in the lawsuit to become defendants, were not notified on the agreement until it was made public in court filings. A statement from the NCSBE said, “The unanimous agreement of the five-member State Board regarding the proposed settlement came after counsel to all board members from agency attorneys and litigation counsel before and during last week’s closed session meeting. The agency’s legal staff, who are civil servants, provide thorough legal memos to the board prior to every board meeting and answer any questions board members have about matters that come before the board. In his letter, Raymond pushed back on statements from the NCSBE, and, in particular, on the attorneys acting on the board’s behalf. “Regarding the settlement
Letter from Lt. Gov. Dan Forest to U.S. Attorney General William Barr
the Republican National Committee are taking the matter to federal court. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has also requested U.S. Attorney General William Barr investigate the recent consent order regarding absentee ballot processing. “I am formally requesting that the United States Department of Justice investigate the collusive attack on the integrity of North Carolina’s elections by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the office of North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein,” the opening of Forest’s letter reads. Forest, a Republican who is running for governor against Cooper, states in his letter that the consent order is attempting to make “wholesale changes to the
absentee ballot laws of North Carolina.” “They have effectively gutted provisions that ensure a quick resolution of the election, witness requirements for absentee ballots, and the requirement that the in-person drop-off of absentee ballots be by the voter or the voter’s near relative,” Forest writes. “These provisions of our election law were put into place by wide, bipartisan margins to prevent the disaster that happened in the 2018 election for North Carolina’s 9th U.S. House District, which was voided because of illegal ballot harvesting.” In a statement released by the North Carolina Democratic Party, House Democratic Leader Darren Jackson said that the “Republican tirade against voting rights has reached an unconscionable level.” In the statement, Jackson also said that with “40 days until the election,” the Republicans “have resorted to lying and sowing distrust in our electoral process all to cling to power.” Two pieces of legislation contain measures the consent order seemingly is trying to overturn. One law is SB 683, Combat Absentee Ballot Fraud, which passed the House 111-1, with Jackson casting the only “no” vote. A second bill, HB 1169, Bipartisan Elections Act of 2020, contains the witness requirement for absentee ballots. Jackson voted “yes” on that measure. Both measures were signed into law by Cooper within days of their passage.
News & Observer, a spokeswoman said Stein was donating the $12,400 in Mako-related contributions to charity to “underscore his commitment to the integrity of (N.C. Department of Justice) investigations.” Over the course of his fouryear tenure as Attorney General of North Carolina, Stein has consistently gone after price-gougers, aggressive telemarketers and robo-callers, Medicaid fraud and various other types of consumer scams. He’s also built a history of suing the Trump administration while failing to defend the state from activist and Democratic-law firm tied lawsuits. A search of the press releases on the N.C. Attorney General’s website using just the word “Trump” yielded 95 results. As Attorney General, one of Stein’s first actions was to request the dismissal of the General Assembly’s petition pending at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the state’s 2013 voting law. Republicans accused Stein of neglecting his duties in defending the state on the matter, which forced them to then seek outside counsel. Additionally, a brief alleging misconduct and ethical violations by Stein was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. Outlined in the brief was that Stein had not consulted with his clients, the General Assembly, before filing the dismissal. Perhaps the most severe claim in the brief against Stein was that he had been a fact witness for the plaintiffs in the case he was now moving to dismiss when he was a sitting state senator. Of note, Stein’s father, Adam, was one of the lawyers who filed some of the first cases attacking the state’s election integrity laws. Stein would later refuse to defend and appeal a ruling blocking the voter-passed Voter ID amendment to the state constitution. In a press release, Stein said his office wouldn’t appeal the law in time for the March 3 primary because it would “cause confusion.” That refusal forced House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate Pro Tem Phil Berger to file a motion with the state court of appeals for an en banc hearing that would convene the entire state Court of Appeals. Over his four years, Stein lobbed half a dozen environmental-related suits at the Trump administration from offshore drilling to endangered-species rules
and several attempts to curb actions by Trump’s appointees to the EPA. In his lengthy list of litigation is a suit over the administration’s replacement in 2018 of President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan.” That wasn’t the first suit filed over “Clean Power” either. In February of 2017, Stein withdrew the state from the lawsuit against the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Act,” entered into by former Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican. In 2020, Stein would also sue the EPA over a rule changing methane emissions standards. Stein has also sued the Trump administration over Obamacare subsidies, which were taxpayer-funded “cost-sharing reductions” (CSR), that cost $7 billion in 2017 and upwards of $10 billion for 2018. He also petitioned the Supreme Court to review the decision of the First Circuit, which ruled that the Obamacare mandate was unconstitutional. In March of 2019, Stein again brought North Carolina into a suit against the Trump administration, this time it was over the “Protect Life Rule,” which Democrats in Congress and Stein falsely labeled as a “gag rule” on abortion doctors. The rule stopped direct referrals to abortion providers by making counseling materials “non-directive.” It also required Title X recipients to follow state laws for reporting suspected child sexual abuse and rape. This past June, Stein sued the U.S. Department of Education (USED) over Secretary DeVos’s repeal of the Gainful Employment Rule, one of several leftover Obama-era practices that critics said penalized “for-profit schools” based on their tax status and which churned out too many graduates with high student debt. A month later, in July, Stein sued USED over changes in higher-education lending programs. He also sued USED and DeVos in 2017 over the department pausing a number of rules tied to student loan forgiveness. Election day is on the horizon, and while O’Neill has a wealth of experience to bring to the job, Stein brings massive fundraising with $5,758,509 cash on hand according to his second quarter report. He’s also raised $6,459,036 overall so far. As of second quarter, O’Neill had cash on hand of $116,396 and has raised $634,409 total this election.
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Black, left, and Raymond, right are picturedin these undated file photos. agreement with the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed by the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans against the State Board of Elections, attorneys from AG Josh Stein’s office did not advise us of the fact that a lot of the concessions made in the settlement have already been denied in a prior case by a federal judge and another case by a state court three-judge panel,” said Raymond. Raymond’s full letter insinuates that the board’s attorneys withheld information from the members, saying, “It is impossible to have true bipartisanship when both sides of the political aisle do not have the important and vital information needed to make the right decisions.” State Sen. Ralph Hise
(R-Mitchell), who co-chairs the Senate Elections Committee, said, “This legal battle will be the defining fight of the North Carolina 2020 election.” “Every power player involved in this collusive settlement, from Gov. Cooper to Attorney General Stein to, potentially, Supreme Court Chief Justice Cherie Beasley will appear on the ballot this year. They’ve rewritten election laws while the election is actively underway. We’re witnessing a slow-motion mugging of North Carolina’s election integrity,” said Hise. Legislative leaders and the Donald Trump presidential campaign have both filed suit to stop the agreement from being enforced. The Trump campaign and
AG from page A1 This is not O’Neill’s first bid at the attorney general role. O’Neill also ran in 2016, losing in the primary to then-state Sen. Buck Newton. Newton ended up losing to Stein only by around 24,000 votes out of over 4.5 million cast that year. As district attorney, O’Neill’s work has focused on a prosecution program targeting sex offenders and the prosecution of violent criminal offenders. That focus has resulted in the lowest dismissal rate for violent crime offenders among urban counties in the state. O’Neill himself has the highest conviction rate in the state for crimes dealing with sexual assault. “Our current attorney general has never prosecuted a criminal case,” O’Neill told North State Journal in an interview earlier this year. “It’s never happened. Without that experience that I’ve had for the last 23 years, you don’t understand what it’s like to hold the hands of a victim’s family that has lost a loved one, or their child has been molested, or they’ve been a victim of rape.” O’Neill attended Duke University for his undergraduate degree while on a lacrosse scholarship. He later obtained his law degree from New York Law School. He and his wife, Dr. Oona O’Neill, have three young children. The opioid addiction crisis has also gotten attention from O’Neill, who started a successful program assisting inmates to kick the addition and stay clean. This program caught the attention of other counties and has since been duplicated statewide. O’Neill also mentioned the rape kit backlog that garnered attention in 2018, telling Stein that the backlog was “an indication that you don’t understand the importance of protecting people and standing up for victims.” The rape kit backlog became an issue for Stein despite past claims by then-Attorney General Roy Cooper when he was running for governor in 2016 that there “is no backlog.” There was a flurry of activity in late 2018 and early 2019 on the backlog, including passage of the Standing Up for Rape Victims Act by the legislature. After that, the updates on the rape kit backlog went quiet. The last update on the N.C. Deptartment
“I am formally requesting that the United States Department of Justice investigate the collusive attack on the integrity of North Carolina’s elections by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the office of North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein."
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Jim O'Neill, left, and Josh Stein, right, are pictured in these file photos. of Justice website in September of 2019 says that “Since January 2018, we have tested 904 sexual assault kits.” A graphic linked to the press release says “over 1,000” kits have been tested. An accurate count of the untested rape kits statewide is hard to gauge as only 92% of law enforcement agencies responded to Stein’s inventory request and 46 agencies did not respond at all. According to EndTheBackLog. org, despite the claimed reductions from that 15,160 total, North Carolina still ranks No. 1 in the country for backlogged rape kits. Born in Washington, D.C., Josh Stein has worked for well-known Democrats throughout his career. He served as campaign manager and deputy chief of staff for U.S. Sen. John Edwards (1997- 2000) and later as senior deputy attorney general under Roy Cooper (2001-2008). Before becoming North Carolina’s 50th attorney general in 2016, he served in the General Assembly as the senator for District 16. Stein’s stint in the legislature was around eight years, starting in 2008 and ending on March 21, 2016, when he resigned to spend more time on his run for attorney general. Stein went to Dartmouth College for undergraduate studies, and in 1995 he received a J.D. and M.P.P. in law and public policy from Harvard University. He and his wife, Anna, live in Durham and have three children. At the moment, Stein is currently embroiled in the controversy over a consent order that the N.C. State Board of Elections has entered into that, in part, seeks
to remove absentee ballot safeguards such as a witness requirement. Those safeguards were put into place after the ballot harvesting incident in the state’s Ninth Congressional District which resulted in a separate special election being held. Stein produced a “fact sheet” about the consent order, which N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) quickly refuted. Moore, along with Senate Leader Phil Berger and several other plaintiffs have filed a federal countersuit to stop the consent order from moving forward. The suit accuses North Carolina Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell, appointed by Cooper, of violating the rights of N.C. voters, specifically, Section 1983 of the U.S. Code. In addition to the consent order, Stein is also under fire for accepting campaign money from a company, Mako Medical, which the N.C. Department of Justice had been investigating two years ago. According to a report by the News & Observer, Mako Medical was being investigated for Medicaid fraud. Mako’s co-founder, Chad Price, told investigators that he knew Stein. The investigators decided not to recommend charges and four months after the investigation ended, Price sent Stein’s campaign a $5,400 contribution. In total, $12,400 came into Stein’s campaign from Price, his business partner and his business partner’s wife. It also came to light that Stein’s office had also decided not to pursue claims made in a separate whistleblower case against Mako. According to the
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DC to NC a common trip for President Trump President Donald Trump has made North Carolina one of his most-visited states in 2020, with only Pennsylvania having more visits than the Tar Heel state. Charlotte has been a favorite of the president, visiting for either official White House events or campaign rallies on four occasions this year. In February, and most recently last Thursday, official events boasting administration priorities — the opportunity zone Mills River Farmers program and healthcare – to Families Food Box brought Trump to the Queen distribution program City. He also appeared at event a campaign rally in March, just before the coronavirus Aug. 24 pandemic became a national emergency, and at the first day of the Republican National Convention.
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Buncombe County Sarah Ann McKinney, 47, of Asheville was killed in a traffic accident, and the North Carolina State Highway Patrol is seeking help finding the newly adopted dog who was riding with her when she died. McKinney lost control of her SUV on Interstate 40 in Catawba County. She struck the guardrail and came to rest in the opposite lane before it was hit head-on by another vehicle. McKinney survived the initial crash but died in the headon collision. McKinney was driving with Zeus, an 8-month-old dog she adopted last week and may answer to the name Odin. AP
Haywood County Two people were killed when a paper packaging mill caught fire. Two contract workers who were repairing tanks at the Evergreen Packaging paper mill died when the fire broke out at the plant near Canton early Monday. Authorities did not publicly identify the victims. The fire department responded and extinguished the blaze. The North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Occupational Safety and Health Division was also investigating the fire. The mill employs about 1,000 people and is the largest industrial employer in Haywood County.
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Buncombe County Asheville voted to decrease its police budget by 3% amid calls from protestors to cut the funds in half. The Asheville City Council approved a $29.3 million police budget in a 5-2 vote. The cuts make up a $770,000 reduction to the $30.1 million originally proposed for the city police department’s 2020-21 budget. Councilman Brian Haynes, one of the opposing votes, said there is still a net increase of $4.1 million for the police department budget over five years. But Debra Campbell, Asheville’s first black city manager, said the cuts were “initial steps” to reallocating police funding.
Cherokee County Benito Morales Mendez, 39, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a child. The arrest comes from a complaint originally made in January. Mendez is also accused of violating a domestic violence protective order. Mendez fled the area and was arrested by US Marshals in Texas. The investigation also revealed that Mendez was not a citizen of the U.S. WLOS
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Motorcyclist charged with assaulting state park ranger Stokes County Kennan James Foster, 44, of Greensboro, was arrested on charges he struck a park ranger with a motorcycle at a state park. Charges include felony assault with a deadly weapon, assault on a law enforcement officer and fleeing the scene to elude arrest. The park ranger was on duty at Hanging Rock Park on Sept. 6 when she heard a motorcycle on a walking trail at the park and briefly spoke to the rider before he allegedly struck her with the bike. The park ranger sustained minor injuries and has since returned to work.
Durham County A federal grand jury in California has indicted Kristy Lynn Felkins, 36, of Nevada, accused of trying to hire a hit man on the internet for $5,000 in bitcoin to kill her ex-husband. She communicated with someone in 2016 on a website that purported to offer murderfor-hire services. Her ex-husband was living in Durham at the time and she wanted him killed while he was traveling in Chico, California. She sent over 12 bitcoin — about $5,000 at the time and nearly $130,000 at Thursday’s exchange rate — to kill him and make it look like an accident. AP
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Woman charged as accessary in child’s death Wilson County Aolani Takemi Marie Pettit, 21, has been charged with being an accessary in the shooting death of a 5-year-old boy last month. Wilson Police haven’t said how Pettit allegedly served as an accessary to the crime. Officers responding to a report of a shooting at a mobile home park on Aug. 9 found 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant suffering from a gunshot wound. Cannon died at a local hospital. Darius Nathaniel Sessoms, 25, was charged with firstdegree murder in the boy’s death. Police said that Sessoms lived next to the boy’s father, although police have not released a motive.
RALEIGH — An after-action report on the 2020 Republican National Convention activities in Charlotte says there “were no cases that were suspected of contracting COVID-19 at RNC 2020.” Approximately 800 people, including delegates from 53 states and territories, were in attendance in Charlotte. Another 400 support personnel were in Charlotte to nominate President Trump at the Republican candidate. The after-action report says that the Republican National Convention 2020 “detected no infections among attendees of the Charlotte convention at 5-, 14-, and 21-day follow up points.” “I am happy to report that no cases of COVID-19 were detected among convention attendees as a result of their attendance at 1-, 2- and 3-week follow up,” said Dr. Jeffrey Runge, chief medical officer for the 2020 Republican National Convention. Reports in August that were critical of the event cited two venue workers who had tested positive and some relaxed mask usage. Mecklenburg County health officials later confirmed that two attendees and two support people tested positive for COVID-19 at the RNC in Charlotte. The attendees were quarantined using a strict protocol and did not come in contact with any other participants. The report says three individuals showed symptoms during the followup points with two of them having other sources of their signs and symptoms. One person contracted COVID-19 from “a known contact at his home during the week after the convention.” Runge also said that “This means we accomplished our goal of bringing people together to do the work of the nominating process without compromising their health. We are very grateful for the close collaboration with the community, its public health leaders and the health
systems, Atrium Health and Novant Health.” The RNC 2020 implemented a detailed health and safety plan prior to the event, which included a series of prearrival countermeasures to make sure no infected individuals attended the Charlotte meetings. Attendees were tested prior to departure for Charlotte and again upon arrival. In addition to pre-screening, a Daily Health Screening was required that included a temperature check and daily symptom tracking. “Because of the multiple layers of risk reduction implemented in our health plan, we had no traceable infections from the 2020 RNC in Charlotte and achieved the goal of keeping attendees and the larger community safe,” said Max Everett, vice president and chief information officer. “We worked hand in glove with local health emergency management officials in the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County as our priority remained on the health and safety of attendees and the surrounding community.” The after-action report summary cites extensive in-session countermeasures that included social distancing, encouragement of universal face-mask use and carefully controlled food and beverage offerings. “The health protocols followed the 5 missions of Emergency Preparedness as identified by the National Response Framework — Prevent, Protect, Mitigate, Respond and Recover — and achieved the goal of keeping the Charlotte community and RNC attendees safe,” the after-action report reads. In July 2018, Charlotte was chosen to host the RNC 2020 to take place from Aug. 24-27, 2020. When the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, plans were altered, and RNC 2020 added pandemic planning on April 1, with Runge taking point a month later in May. By early August, the Health Protocols Operational Plan was presented to the Charlotte City Council, and the plan was formally published on Aug. 17.
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Deputies shot at man armed with machete after hit-and-run Orange County Police shot Benjamin Michael Morley, 39, of Mooresville, who attacked sheriff’s deputies with a machete. Morley was treated for a wound on his left leg. Morley allegedly struck a student with his car on the UNC campus and then drove away. A UNC officer tried to stop Morley, firing at him as he was backing up and driving toward the officer. Morley drove off and disappeared. Later, Alamance County sheriff’s deputies fired at Morley after he rammed his car into a deputy’s vehicle and then lunged at deputies and swung a machete at them. AP
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NC State students can take inperson classes in spring
Man dies after trying to save daughter in rough surf
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Wake County N.C. State University students can take inperson classes for the spring semester and live in campus housing, chancellor Randy Woodson announced. Classes will start Jan. 11 and finish April 29. There will be a mix of in-person, hybrid and online classes for undergraduate and graduate students. However, N.C. State will work to ensure students will have a chance to take courses remotely if they choose. The university will hold spring break March 15-19 and will conduct final exams May 3-7. AP
Dare County A 31-year-old woman was rescued after a search to find her in a patch of thick woods spanned two days. The Coast Guard launched a search-and-rescue operation Friday after the woman became lost in the Buxton Woods Reserve near the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The Coast Guard called in a helicopter to search for her in the dark, and she was briefly spotted before disappearing again. The search was suspended until Saturday morning when a ranger saw her walking. The Dare County Sheriff’s Office, Hatteras Island Rescue Squad and the state Wildlife Resources Commission assisted in the search.
Currituck County A man died trying to save his daughter from what officials say was life-threatening surf. Currituck County spokesman Randall Edwards said the man was overcome by waves when he entered the water. Lifeguards from Corolla Beach Rescue responded within three minutes. The unidentified man was pulled from the water in cardiac arrest. The man regained a pulse after emergency personnel performed CPR. But he died at a hospital several hours later. The man’s daughter was rescued by lifeguards and was not injured. AP EVAN VUCCI | AP PHOTO
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Some they need to start answering serious questions, or the way, then you will know honest journalism is at Trump due its unusual allocation of electors by “swing state” category. Many campaign experts on when certain types of questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home revenue spread over a few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is representatives to hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for past. the world likepandemic, any other modern nation. suffering from the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 and manyare more ty were ancial ways for sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same ofdeeply institutional faith toto which all oth many people arespirit, dying home. institutions seem prone. 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The overall winner with the Trump and North Carolina is slipping away from osed undertaking to save our own economy, not of defeated enemies as in the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating Easter, a way They too many of a painful experience prefer nottotoAmericans, repeat. businessthe now for the 30 years. have made getting no secret that they questioning data andpast asking when we canmemories start back This I’isdSome all new and it number is not normal. Not in any way, utor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. Even more importantly, we have noin clue how many Americans ible citizens of simply actually have coronavirus. scientists suggest that the Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harva But it won’t be this year. most votes gets 2 electoral votes Maine. 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It does not womanhood and appear to have backfired, ties to was inspiration behind author Margaret Republican leaders vowed that Trump’s nominee working from home or losing a job, may be to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland County. rldwide pandemics can trace their source to the United States over The crisis cost the U.S. taxpayer at least $2.4 trillion in added Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during question what government tells us aboutand when it’s safe to begin theCumberland County. working from home or losing a job,the it becircles difficult to contempt. “rejoice seniors throughout Some of these orders extend at least of through the end ofbe this month. normal are treated inmay some with ng back tohistory. At least four in have abided bythe recommendations and orders. They’ve left their jobs perhaps because kind offrom hardthroughout to persuade predict how manyhusband people will die init’s a stories second wave. This is the our region continu Atwood’s 1985 book “The Handmaid’s Tale.” would receive a vote on the floor United the Bible tells us to do. as aa Christian, These 231-year the 20th century alone can be debt plus trillions more Federal Reserve liquidity to the beglad” glad” the Bible tells us tobackup do.However, However, asto Christian, husband These stories from throughout our region continue a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet”asas ifin the process of returning back normalcy. Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept without middle-of-the-road people that asupplies successful woman Reuters followed Newsweek’s lead with a similar to flu,” stay 1977 at home; they’ve practiced social distancing; in many places, most important problem because experts maintain that the to virus is in need and States Senate. and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and people ectly traced to China: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong markets and financial outlets. If the U.S. dollar were not the reserve and dad, the Easter holiday hasgovernment reminded me oftells just much hope, inspiration and supplies to people in need and state’s stay-at-home orders will extend intoRoy May. No.what The works forushow us, and wewe have the right to ask those Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Cooper stated during question the government about when it’s safe to begin the Since when did ccept flu” without The such as Barrett is itching to take away women’s piece. Democrats, ofevidence course, were outraged Trump wehave they’ve donned masks. seasonal, which means we are likely to serious toto bebe thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers onsee themore front lines ofspreading thecoronavirus coronavirusrespons respon ussian and attacks the 2002 on SARS outbreak. There is that the currency, would not be able to fund any of these emergency have thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy. We need questioning essive to begin the rights. As it turns out, the claim was false, and would make a nomination so close to the The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. in the fall. And that means we will be faced with either renewed Lenten and pandemic. While people throughout our communities contin 1918Judge “Spanish flu” pandemic also had for its origins inwill China. measures without of The rampant andsome currency Lenten and Barrett’s pandemic. While people throughout our communities continu justification it. And the answers should not be vague onesimmediate like “we fear country, and inflation the stricter of and them in states, such as Michigan, stay-at-home orders May. No. government works for us, weget have themay right towhy ask those Since when did state’s This be Biden and other Democrats transparency Newsweek hadis to issue a majorpart retraction. Reuters presidential election. 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But that didn’t stop t to askin those flip-flopping on Metrics their on the wisdom and Evaluation oftAs cited byquestions. members ofand the testing and contact or with theemphasis realization that we will have questioning making. I Icelebrated Easter with my family, IIpolitical reflected on 2tracing, Protection Program, are supporting self-employedpe and honesty ginated Wuhan Province probably from the completely China has to pay for their aberrant ways decisions through making. As celebrated Easter with my family, reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-employed provide a at all levels It will need to be explained in detail to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand justification for it. And the forth answers should not ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them get in will states, such as take Michigan, provide abe vague allegedly Obamacare aware from the commentators on reminds the lefthas and others innot the of from a president putting aadministration, Supreme Court eegulated all overfaith the unsanitary theand expected need for beds at to isolate those who mosthelping vulnerable and let everyone else work.on the payroll Corinthians 1:4, which us our “comforts us in all our small businesses keep people appear to government and wetmust markets. Some believe it Trump came of a home economic financial means. Diplomacy obviously worked our Corinthians 1:4,hospital which reminds us ourLord Lord “comforts usisolated in allare our small are being told to remain joblessout and at for an undetermined answers. message ofof do this out ofpresidential an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling and/or helping anxious aboutbusinesses keep people on the payroll, w become a message American people. mainstream press from continuing to make the nominee in a election year. as Michigan, peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can we do? Are affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and workers.Please Pleaseknk affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any warfare lab run by the communist Chinese army. relief will soon reach families and workers. to bring China into the civilized world of 21st century health, hygiene scientific of time why models in predicting hundreds of of cases when Leaders local state levels should be aswill forthcoming as they at all thing? levels It will need toexperts be explained detail to that the people of thousands this state who they canat getthe back to and providing for their families, demand have backfired, amount hope we will hope that we will when get working to the confirmation hearings, false claim. 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Can we sporting events, If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. sporting events, If are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you whole. ice than to build redundant manufacturing plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. 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But we should also still continue living in a free to persuade incredulously (as they should) every time a sporting when they were subservient to men is particularly — no matter who they were — was going to set rs, but concerns. answer First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting events, don’t and when God’s example and comfort all those in need around hope that we will once again enjoy events, co ability adversaries push back. gatherings, free citizens mandated that we do, butcertain along the way also hadget questions aboutis We should all continue tothe dodata, whatbecause we can to keepreasonable our families, gatherings, Unfortunately, when types ofI’ve questions asked,astonishing there to ask questions about while stay-at-home Democrat senator accuses theservices well-qualified female when you consider that she is exactly women back decades. society were important because it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they have been. this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, gatherings, church services and many more celebra this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one I am gatherings, church and many more celebrati The most direct way to make China “pay” for this disaster is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such as the Chernobyl they hope to middle-of-thethe data. State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should also still continue sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those of “everywoman” measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. church services church services living in a free being the who will take women the have been Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden amilies, be open or of closed, whether we ought totype pursue — Sweden style — pandemic apandemic Americans arewhile notnominee going to of stay home forone months on end, and confident will emerge out of this stronger own temporary sacrifices forthe the greatergood goodofofthe thec confident we willto emerge out offeminists this stronger ever. own temporary sacrifices for greater supposed . tax credits to companies whosimply willknow source at least half of their meltdown instart 1986. Some experts believe that event, the Star Wars Unfortunately, when certain types questions asked, there iswe ask questions about the data, because reasonable stay-at-home what they questioning the data and asking when weget can getting back This is all new tonot Americans, andthan it is not normal. Not in any way, and many more and many more road people that society were back to the dark ages. telling women for decades that they can be. alleged that “women’s rights as it relates to still continue more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not do so on the basis ofover. ever-evolving models, In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories humanity are In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity are over. duction back in the United States. There is approximately $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. to do, last I to normal they arehealth conspiracy theorists are people whoan accomplished shape, or form. So while weashould remain vigilant and stay safe, at don’t.as though after our own toorbe after our own The are getting to come homeasaswell She’s woman. Sheespecially has everything from care is going eion stay-at-home ought to lock down further. asisstatistics rollchickens in that look like the ready lower-end model neighbors helpingneighbors. neighbors. Iso-called everyone celebrating Easter, neighbors helping I wish wish everyone celebrating Easter, wellasasPasso Pas questioning themedical data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new towe Americans, andcomfortable it not normal. 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Chinese in thewhen U.S. is about by theorists Perhaps isbad China’s Chernobyl. Since did questioning government at all become a normal.” woman such as miserable “war on“new women” petards. It’s going be confident mother ofaabut seven children, including she andshields her their plan. North State Journal Wednesday, April 15, 2020 in any way, the number offor identified COVID-19 cases — both the numerator of economic damage. We need transparency and honesty from our money tobuy buy 3-D printer and plastic totwo make face necessary safety guidelines and remain tha sacrifices are money to 3-D printer and plastic to make face for necessary safety guidelines and remain confident th sacrifices are otherwise don’t care if they get themselves or others sick. the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-called mparison. 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Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister revenue spread over a few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is(swine flu) representatives topandemic, hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for suffering from the H1N1 virus during the 2009 RedState andall Legal Insurrection. a woman’sunderestimated, supposed “right”since to terminate thesame life of rumored to be Trump’s choice. sources suggest number is dramatically to the lack ofcontributor institutionaltofaith to which other American about them catching the virus, andthe I’m worried imal dust compared to the $6worried trillion+ Marshall Plan extra we are now this disaster. I’ve been trying to take precautions, because all Iofwill. thisAfter brings up and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. Sister Toldjah many people are dying at home. institutions seem deeply prone. suffering from the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, dertaking to save our own economy, not of defeated enemies as in the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of way too many memories of a painful experience I’d prefer not to repeat. rection. Even more importantly, we have no clue how many Americans I’ve But beenwhat trying tomakes take extra precautions, because allmost of this brings up t. theeasily world like any other modern nation. also me lose sleep is how everyone has actually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest that the number Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, way too many memories of a painful experience I’ d prefer not to repeat. China has GUEST been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American OPINION | NAN MILLER what also makes sleep is cases how easily everyone oflose identified couldmost be an order ofhas magnitude lower than the host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire. They have made no me secret that they niness now for the past 30 years.But Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor number of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. com. end to replace the U.S. as the premier superpower in the world and lace the dollar as the reserve currency with their renminbi.
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Reviving the speaker ban at Chapel Hill
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is none other than the Republican Party, that Chapel Hill.” bastion of “racism, homophobism, xenophobism, In 2006, I saw up close and personal that a self, and misogyny,” which “threatens the norms and imposed gag order can provide cover for certain g COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON professors as well. institutions of American democracy.” It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to suspect Researching an article on the decline in literacy PARTS ONE AND TWO in this series noted that that Dr. Watts’ real mission was to urge attendees among university graduates, I asked two UNC administrators at State and Duke have issued plans h n to advance that message in the classroom — in the English professors to comment on a report that a requiring every student, faculty and staff member lead-up to the 2020 election. band of “race-gender-class” theorists had “hijacked” to undergo training to eliminate “racial injustice” The While Chancellor Guskiewicz and Professor the English department to advance a leftist and thereby to “right the wrongs” that “plague our dismantling Watts aim to subdue a campus community to one agenda. Both professors agreed to talk, but only country” and our universities. “THIS ISto THE DAY the lord has made, let of usthe rejoice and— beafter glad Inc.way in Concord and New SarumCarolina Brewing alum Co. inNikole of thinking, celebrated on anonymity on home Juneshelter-in-place also brought Carolina’s plan stamp out of Silent WITH MOST STATES under either or stay-at-home fallen into place. I condition understand seriousness of thehours, virus Hydromer and the need in it”the (Psalm 118:24). Salisbury are switching their operations make ahand sanitizer. Hannah-Jones aims to to subdue nation to her phones — because neither wanted to be on record “structural racism,” and, like State and Duke ers thanksSam to local or state governments, a majority of Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask was I know this challenging time of social distancing, Inback Fayetteville, a minister began a program to deliver groceries sinister re-imagining of American history. On to colleagues who had literature plans, will the require person inthat our during community having to adjust to what is being called “new“every normal.” questions aboutopposing the data, and when things candevalued start getting to working fromequity home or losing a job, it may be difficult to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland County. inevitable, June 3, Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and redefined writing as “a form of social action.” learn new concepts diversity, and ome of these orders extend attoleast through the end about of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. glad” Guskiewicz’s as the Bible tells to do. However, as aasa Christian, husband Thesewithout stories from throughout our region continue to provide recognized Hannah-Jones for inventing the 1619 Rather than risk two Carolina’s planus ginia’s stay-at-home into June.But ChancellorbeKevin They’re treated as though we acounterpunch, society simply mustofaccept but the orders goinclusion.” and Easter holiday hasthe reminded me oftells just how much we it’s hope, inspiration and supplies people that in need and our healtha care whichtoasserts “America Wasn’t finest had simply retreated behind closed office will also require students anddad, staffthe to tackle racism Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during question what government us about when safe to begin the Project, dismantling have be and of hopeful for, even midst of this global workers on the front lines of the coronavirus response.Made it One.” Democracy Until Black Americans doors. using common set know of terms,” most likely isreturning cent coronavirus press briefing that“a“we just don’t yet”to ifwhich thethankful process back in to the normalcy. Lenten and set of terms.” pandemic. While our communities continue to step up, No one would deny that slavery is the great stain Shortly afterfor my appeared, Ph.D. code for “a May. correct orders will extend into No. The government works us,article and we have the a right to askpeople those throughout ce’s stay-at-home of American For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Congress, like the Paycheck on our past — or deny the contributions AfricanEaster seasons candidate emailed to say he wanted to talk — As for students whose parents don’t know how hf he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the history is making. As I celebrated with my if family, reflected onreveal 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-employed and Americans have made in shapingpeople our nation. but only I promised not his to speak, think act correctly, office Easter ification for it. And the answers should notabeorvague ones likeCarolina’s “we country, and the stricter some ofI them get to in states, suchidentity. as Michigan, provide Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people on the payroll, while direct But when Hannah-Jones claims that historians I promised, then learned that the “maiming” forof“diversity and inclusion” has posted a list of st do this malpractice, out of an abundance caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about message of affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and workers. Please know that I’llthe have “largely treated slavery as an asterisk to of literature had infected Carolina’s graduate resources “white people and parents” can use to t will needpure to beand explained in detailhope to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand that we will affliction, comfort which we ourselves by professors continue on common sense and targeted solutions so that story,” she adds one more blunder to her program as wellare andcomforted that certain wereworkingAmerican reform themselves. Included in thewith list isthe Ibram being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. once again enjoy simple. we can defeat themisbegotten coronavirus screed. and keep people and businesses acting though their should reappraisals of literature Kendi’s best seller toGod.” Be an Antiracist,Leaders which at the ount of time why models predicting hundreds ofHow thousands of cases local as and state levels be as forthcoming as they events, If you are celebrating the Easter season, urge you to also whole. The dismantling of Silent Sam was inevitable, but meant moreI—and than the literature holds sporting that “anyone not actively engaged incan this reliable. be with those answers andmattered again, notmore vague answers, but answer s date, I’ve gone along with what reflect and be comforted, that denying we may live out the education Until then, thethe Lenten and Easter seasons provide a message of dismantling of American history is malpractice, itself. Theyso were students system-changing work is a collaborator with concerts, family To the state has asked and thenon this message with details that give their statements believability. God’saabout example andtarget comfort in need around during onceand again enjoy sporting events, concerts, family simple. they themselves wereus privileged to have, thatthat is, we willpure and therefore himself legitimate for allallthose ndated that we do, but along racism, the way I’ve also had questions We should continue to do what we can to keep ourhope families, gatherings, During the of the conference on thisoffice difficult Through faith by helping one another, I amthealso gatherings, church services andQ&A manyportion more celebrations after our if and they had finished school before Marxists, attack.” No Carolina’s for time. “diversity andand data. State Republican leaders have, too.doubt ourselves, our communities safe. But we should still continue church services free speech, a student to comment and gender theoristsown began, in confident we on willto emerge out ofdeconstructionists this pandemic stronger than ever. temporary sacrifices for the greaterasked good panelists of the country and inclusion” will approve Kendi’s attack Supreme Unfortunately, when certain types ofand questions get asked, there is ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home many more on their proposal to restrict “right-wing” speech the of one “plowing thean field with salt.” nominee Amy Coney Barrett for being one ofare understandable, this same spirit, I continue to words be inspired bycritic, stories ofalso have humanity are over. n metimes a disturbing tendencyCourt among some people to treatIn those measures they should expiration date. after ourcolonizers” own only. The panelist who responded explained that Critics who thought that exposing the swindle those “White who use their black children neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating Easter, as well as Passover, a joyous ply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, temporary free we speech cancontinue be usedto tokeep “silence and harm would threaten leftist rule because “as props in their lifelong pictures In Concord, a shape, high school senior named used his were own dead celebration can all faith, practice normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people whoof denial.” or form. So while weTanner should remain vigilant andwrong stay safe, at and pray others,” and there was confident no mistaking thatwill in his other recent events that the None ofor which surprised moneyanyone to buy who a 3-D printer andwe plastic to make faceconfirm shields with for necessary safety guidelines and remain that we get sacrifices arehas erwise don’t care if they get themselves others sick. thehas same time shouldn’t get comfortable thisso-called so-called “new mind the perpetrators of harm are uniformly tenured radicals are still in charge in Chapel Hill. knownover. about Carolina’s longstanding reputation health care workers out of his own home. through this together. ince when did questioning government at all levels become a bad normal.” conservative. At last November’s conference on free speech, a haven for leftists students how to one little bit. ng? That is what free citizensas living in a free societywho wereteach supposed Not In the mind of leftists, the word “right-wing” communications professor and keynote speaker Eric be an anti-conservative — and how to silence those do, last I checked. represents all that must be silenced — and in Chapel Watts proposed restrictions on the free speech of a suspected of of holding of view. My first concern as we go along in all this, course,an is “intransigent” my family. I’mpoint Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah Hill they are well on their way to achieving that “culprit” that usesand speech an instrument betting hasI heard Carolina graduates rried about them catching theI’m virus, and everyone I’m worried will. After and is a regularcertain contributor to RedState LegalasInsurrection. aim. “in the social construction of racism.” That culprit refer to their alma mater as “the People’s Republic of ering from the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, been trying to take extra precautions, because all of this brings up y too many memories of a painful experience I’d prefer not to repeat. But what also makes me lose sleep is how easily most everyone has
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Time to double down on Trump and Tillis
GUEST OPINION | DONALD TRUMP JR.
This election is about your liberty Donald Trump will appoint judges who know their job is to say what the law is, not what they want it to be.
THE DEMOCRATS are coming for your freedom — not just your AR-15. No one is surprised to hear that Joe Biden wants to restrict our Second Amendment rights. If his close affinity with Beto “we’re-going-to-take-your-AR-15” O’Rourke wasn’t enough to convince you, just look at Biden’s published gun control wish list. If Biden were to win, he plans to limit the number of guns you can purchase, force you into buy-back programs and gun registries, and cripple our domestic gun manufacturers by making them liable for guns they produce. While Biden is open and proud of his anti-gun positions, he is less transparent on other issues. Biden is against many of the most successful charter schools. He has said he would ban charter schools operated by businesses. He opposes opportunity scholarships that allow students and parents to select a school environment or curriculum that is right for them. In short, he is an avowed enemy of school choice. On public safety, Biden spent the summer in his basement in relative silence while rioting, looting and burning was happening across the country in cities controlled 100% by Democrats. He also openly endorsed “redirecting” police funding, though he has since walked those comments back after it became clear that it could cost him votes this November. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get any better from there. Biden also wants to raise taxes, ban fracking, increase gas prices, give amnesty to illegal immigrants and force taxpayers to pay for the healthcare of illegal immigrants. Worst of all, Biden will return America to the days of economic surrender to China and allow them to continue poaching American jobs. All of Biden’s positions have two things in common: They would limit your freedom and make the lives of regular Americans worse. On the other hand, Donald Trump believes in the
American people and their ability to make decisions for themselves. My father has been a staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights. He wants to end the violence in the streets and put the criminals in jail who perpetrate riots or fund them, so we can all enjoy our freedoms. In his second-term agenda, President Trump is committed to ensuring school choice for every American child. That’s a bold promise to the children of America and their parents. That stands in stark contrast to Joe Biden and left-wing bureaucrats who are desperately trying to maintain control over our children’s educational choices and indoctrinate them with liberal ideology. President Trump has stood up to China on trade and human rights violations. No president has been tougher on the Chinese Communist Party than him, which is why the intelligence community says China wants my father to lose re-election. He is also securing our border to preserve your safety and to ensure that the benefits of American citizenship are still available to citizens. Finally, with the new vacancy on the Supreme Court, another stark difference between Biden and Trump is evident. Joe Biden will appoint activist judges who legislate from the bench, strike down laws they don’t like and preserve unconstitutional government actions. Donald Trump has a consistent record of appointing originalist judges who know their job is to say what the law is, not what they want it to be. This election offers you the freedom to choose. You can choose your president, your governor, your senator. You can choose the country that you want to live in. Do you want to live in a country controlled by Democrats who only answer to radical leftwing activists, or do you want to live in Donald Trump’s America, where your freedom and constitutional rights will always be put first? The choice is yours on Nov. 3.
GUEST OPINION | DAN FOREST President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after delivering remarks on healthcare at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Charlotte, N.C.
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Putting America and N.C. first in healthcare
Obamacare didn’t just fail Julia. It failed our country, broken promise after broken promise, and the latest proposal of Medicaid expansion is much the same.
I WANT TO TELL YOU about a young woman I’ve gotten to know named Julia; she’s from Charlotte, a huge Panthers and UNC Tarheels basketball fan, loves trips to Disney World, the beach and Chick-fil-A. She was also born with Freeman-Sheldon syndrome, a rare muscle and bone condition. That hasn’t stopped her from graduating from Furman University and pursing her dream of being an artist. What it does mean, though, is that she’s spent a lot of time in the hospital, recovering from surgeries and dealing with complications related to her condition. In 2010, Julia’s family was paying about $1,000 per month for health insurance. But after President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was signed into law, within three years those premiums had tripled — spiking to $3,000 each month; deductibles increased, and eventually Julia and her family lost the plan they had for many years. Obamacare didn’t just fail Julia. It failed our country, broken promise after broken promise, and the latest proposal of Medicaid expansion is much the same. The Republican plan for healthcare takes a much different approach. Instead of forcing the country on a one-size-fits-all socialist government system, we are improving healthcare to lower costs while expanding options. As President Trump put it in Charlotte this week: “Delivering better care with more choice at a much lower cost.” This starts at the federal level. President Trump’s America First Healthcare Plan does the following: expands affordable insurance options, reduces the cost of prescription drugs, ends surprise billing, requires price
transparency, and protects patients with pre-existing conditions. Here in North Carolina, Republicans are working on many of the same things. Already, we’ve made it easier for small businesses to offer health insurance to their employees. When I’m governor, we will provide better access for patients by incentivizing doctors to practice in our rural communities. I’ll work with the General Assembly and the state treasurer to ensure more price transparency, so citizens know how much prescription drugs and vital health services cost. I’ll reopen our state in a responsible manner which will allow people to get back to work and to access their employer health care once again, instead of relying on inadequate government services. I’ll also fight to get those left in the coverage gap created by the Affordable Care Act on reliable private insurance. This past Thursday, Julia got to be beside President Trump as he signed an executive order in Charlotte that protects patients with pre-existing conditions and will fight surprise medical bills. Already, her family’s health insurance premiums have been cut by over 40% under the Trump administration. Under our leadership, President Trump and I — along with Republicans across the state — will ensure that the United States remains the land of cutting-edge treatments, groundbreaking cures and the best medical care in the world. Dan Forest is the lieutenant governor of North Carolina and the Republican candidate for governor in 2020.
IT’S TIME for North Carolina conservatives to double down on two previous bets: Donald Trump and Thom Tillis. In 2016, no one was really sure what Trump’s principles were — or if he had any principles. There was real concern among conservatives that, if elected, he would not govern as a conservative. In addition to his abrasive personality, he showed a striking inability to articulate a cohesive conservative world view. Indeed, for many of us in 2016, the only way to vote for Trump with any enthusiasm was to vote against Hillary Clinton. That’s what we did. We placed a bet that Trump would somehow govern as a conservative while at least knowing that, whatever his principles turned out to be, he would be better than Hillary. That bet has paid off big time. As Fred Barnes wrote recently in the Washington Examiner, “When Donald Trump became president, he was a mystery man… but Trump’s effort to transform himself into an unmistakable conservative has been impressive.” The litany of Trump administration accomplishments is long and reassuring. His judicial appointments have been heart-warming to any conservative. Withdrawals from the Paris environmental accord and from the Iran agreement were bold and decisive. Previous administrations — both Republican as well as Democratic — had timidly avoided the relocation of our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Trump has not wavered in his opposition to abortion and is the only president to attend the annual anti-abortion rally at the U. S. Capitol. His reduction of taxes and business regulation produced a dynamic economy which dramatically raised all boats. With the significant, glaring exception of fiscal restraint, Trump has consistently implemented conservative principles. The ballooning of the federal debt under Trump exposes the truth that, alas, he is a big-government conservative. While he gave lip service in 2016 to balancing the federal budget, his actions leave much to be desired. Conservatives can only hope that he will show more fiscal restraint in his second term. However, we can take comfort in the knowledge that a second Trump term will undoubtedly spend far less than a Biden administration. As for Thom Tillis, North Carolina conservatives gladly supported Tillis in his 2014 campaign against incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan. Tillis ran on a thoroughly conservative platform. He rightly attacked Hagan for her support of the Democratic agenda and promised to reign in “out of control federal spending.” As examples, he blasted Hagan’s support of the bloated Farm Bill and the Export Import Bank. Unfortunately, Tillis’ record as a conservative has fallen short of his 2014 rhetoric. During the Tillis Senate term, 20142020, federal spending has exploded, and he has been part of the problem. Hypocritically, he voted for renewal of the Farm Bill and the Export Import Bank. He recently blasted the Republican Senate for not passing additional COVID-relief spending. Whenever fiscally conservative Republicans (e.g., Sens. Paul, Cruz, Toomey, Cotton, et. al.) have sought to curtail spending, Tillis was not to be found. On the positive side, Sen. Tillis has consistently voted pro-life and has generally supported Trump’s judicial appointments. On immigration, he disappointingly waffled on construction of the wall. The conservative rankings by FreedomWorks, Club for Growth and Heritage Foundation generally rank Sen. Tillis around 50% — or halfa-conservative. For conservatives, Sen. Tillis has been a disappointment, but there should be no doubt that half a conservative in Tillis is far better than a zero conservative in Cal Cunningham, who will follow Schumer and the Squad in their march towards socialism. As we are all reminded daily in the press, North Carolina is ground zero in the 2020 election fight, both for the presidency and for control of the Senate. Trump cannot possibly win this election without carrying North Carolina. Similarly, the loss of the Tillis seat to the Democrats could well mean a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate. The stakes are far too high for conservatives to hold back. Trump and Tillis might not be everything we’d like to see in a conservative candidate but ponder the alternative. We’ve got to double down on our previous bets. Garland S. Tucker III, retired Founder/ CEO, Triangle Capital Corporation and author of The High Tide of American Conservatism: the 1924 Election and Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America- Jefferson to Reagan. He was a candidate for US Senate in the 2020 primary against Sen. Tillis.
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NATION & WORLD Dying winds give crews hope in Northern California fires By Janie Har The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Easing winds gave California firefighters a break Tuesday as they battled a destructive wildfire that was driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco and another rural blaze that killed three people. Breezes replaced the powerful gusts that sent the Glass Fire raging through Napa and Sonoma counties Sunday and Monday, scorching more than 66 square miles. At least 95 buildings have burned in wine country, including homes and winery installations. A wildfire burning farther north in rural Shasta County has destroyed another 146 buildings. The fire in wine country pushed through brush that had not burned for a century, even though surrounding areas were incinerated in a series of blazes in recent years. As the winds eased Monday evening, firefighters were feeling “much more confident,” said Ben Nicholls, a division chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. “We don’t have those critical burning conditions that we were experiencing those last two nights,” he said. The Glass Fire in wine country is one of nearly 30 wildfires burning around California. The National Weather Service warned that hot, dry conditions with strong Santa Ana winds could continue posing a fire danger
in Southern California through Tuesday afternoon. In a forested far northern part of the state, more than 1,200 people were evacuated in Shasta County for the Zogg Fire, which has burned at least 62 square miles. Three people have died in the fire, Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini said Monday. He gave no details but urged people who receive evacuation orders: “Do not wait.” Residences are widely scattered in Shasta County, which was torched just two years ago by the deadly Carr Fire — infamously remembered for producing a huge tornado-like fire whirl. The Pacific Gas & Electric utility had cut power to more than 100,000 customers in advance of gusty winds and in areas with active fire zones. The utility’s equipment has caused previous disasters, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and devastated the town of Paradise in the Sierra Nevada foothills. By Monday night, the utility said it had restored electricity to essentially all of those customers. However, PG&E said about 24,000 people remained without power in areas affected by two fires in Napa, Sonoma, Shasta and Tehama counties. So far in this year’s historic fire season, more than 8,100 California wildfires have killed 29 people, scorched 5,780 square miles and destroyed more than 7,000 buildings. The Glass Fire began Sunday as three fires merged and drove into vineyards and mountain areas,
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Embers fly from a tree as the Glass Fire burns in St. Helena, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. including part of the city of Santa Rosa. About 70,000 people were under evacuation orders, including the entire 5,000-plus population of Calistoga in Napa County. Some people were injured and Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies had to rescue people who ignored evacuation orders, officials said. Sonoma County Supervisor Susan Gorin, who lives in Santa Rosa, said she was stuck in two hours of heavy traffic Monday night to reach safety. Gorin’s home was damaged in another fire three years ago and she was rebuilding it. She saw three neighboring houses in flames as she fled. “We’re experienced with that,” she said of the fires. “Once you lose
a house and represent thousands of folks who’ve lost homes, you become pretty fatalistic that this is a new way of life and, depressingly, a normal way of life, the megafires that are spreading throughout the West.” Gorin said it appeared the fire in her area was sparked by embers from the Glass Fire. Ed Yarbrough, a wildfire evacuee from St. Helena in Napa County, watched firefighters douse flames across from his house Monday. “I can see in the distance that it looks like it’s intact,” he said but said spot fires were still being doused. “So I know we’re not really out of the woods yet, and the woods
can burn,” he said. The fires came as the region approaches the anniversary of the 2017 fires, including one that killed 22 people. Just a month ago, many of those same residents were evacuated from the path of a lightning-sparked fire that became the fourth-largest in state history. “Our firefighters have not had much of a break, and these residents have not had much of a break,” said Daniel Berlant, an assistant deputy director with Cal Fire. Officials did not have an estimate of the number of homes destroyed or burned, but the blaze engulfed the Chateau Boswell Winery in St. Helena and at least one five-star resort.
Kuwait ruler, longtime diplomat Sheikh Sabah, dies at age 91 The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91. In a Middle East replete with elderly rulers, Sheikh Sabah stood out for his efforts at pushing for diplomacy to resolve a bitter dispute between Qatar and other Arab nations that continues to this day. His 2006 ascension in Kuwait, a staunch U.S. ally since the American-led war that expelled occupying Iraqi troops, came after parliament voted unanimously to oust his predecessor, the ailing Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, just nine days into his rule. Yet as Kuwait’s ruling emir, he struggled with internal political disputes, the fallout of the 2011 Arab Spring protests and seesawing crude oil prices that chewed into a national budget providing cradle-to-grave subsidies. “He represents the older generation of Gulf leaders who valued discretion and moderation and the importance of personal ties amongst fellow monarchs,” said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington who studies Kuwait. “No question he has suffered from the lack of deference and respect shown by the younger and more brash young princes holding power today.” State television announced his death after playing Quranic prayers, with Royal Court Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al Sabah reading a brief statement, his hands shaking. “With great sadness and sorrow, the Kuwaiti people, the Arab and Islamic nations, and the friendly peoples of the world mourn the death of the late His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, emir of the state of Kuwait who moved to the realm of
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In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 file photo, Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left, and Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, right, stand for a group photograph at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Kuwait City. the Lord,” the sheikh said, without offering a cause of death. Sheikh Sabah is expected to be succeeded by his half brother, the crown prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah. The high regard for Sheikh Sabah could be seen in the outpouring of support for him across the Mideast as he suddenly fell ill in July 2020, leading to a quick hospitalization and surgery in Kuwait City amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A U.S. Air Force C-17 flying hospital then transported Sheikh Sabah from Kuwait to Rochester, Minnesota, home of the flagship campus of the Mayo Clinic — an extraordinary gesture by the American government for a foreign head of state. The Mayo Clinic did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Sheikh Sabah’s life spanned two very different Kuwaits. He was born June 16, 1929, just as the country’s pearl-diving industry would collapse. Within the decade, Kuwait would strike oil. Engineers would eventually confirm that the tiny country, slightly smaller than the U.S. state of New Jersey, had the world’s sixth-larg-
“He represents the older generation of Gulf leaders who valued discretion and moderation and the importance of personal ties amongst fellow monarchs.” Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute est known oil reserves. Sheikh Sabah became Kuwait’s foreign minister in 1963 after holding a number of other governmental posts. He would remain in that position for four decades, making him one of the world’s longest-serving foreign ministers. His country’s greatest crisis came in 1990, when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and occupied the nation for seven months. Fleeing with other Kuwaiti officials to neighboring Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Sabah collapsed and lost consciousness at one par-
ticularly stormy meeting of Arab leaders. On Feb. 24, 1991, U.S. troops and their allies stormed into Kuwait. It ended 100 hours later. America suffered only 148 combat deaths during the whole campaign, while over 20,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed. Even before the U.S. entered Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah and others began suggesting a permanent American presence in the region might provide them protection from Iraq and others. “One learns from the past and learns about it for the future,” Sheikh Sabah reportedly said. “One has to consider arrangements that would make not only my country stable but make the whole area stable.” Today, Kuwait hosts some 13,500 American troops, many at Camp Arifjan south of Kuwait City, which is also home to the forward command of U.S. Army Central. In 2003, his half brother and Kuwait’s then-emir, Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah, named Sheikh Sabah as the country’s prime minister. Although the move kept members of the Al Sabah family firmly in control of Kuwait, it was seen as a modest step toward reform as it marked the first time that the roles of prime minister and crown prince — the next in line to the throne — were split. It also formalized Sheikh Sabah’s role in running the daily affairs of the country — a responsibility he had increasingly assumed while the former prime minister, Sheikh Saad, struggled with health problems. Domestically, Sheikh Sabah faced the challenge of falling oil prices in recent years. He dissolved parliament several times as lawmakers kept questioning appointed government ministers, some of them members of his extended family. As the 2011 Arab Spring swept the region, Sheikh Sabah ordered $3,559 grants and free food cou-
pons for every Kuwaiti. But allegations swirled at the time that some lawmakers had been bribed $350 million by the government to sway their votes, along with rumors that they were involved in embezzling state funds. Amid strikes and confrontations with police, protesters briefly entered parliament, waving flags and singing the country’s national anthem. Sheikh Sabah nevertheless maintained power while still allowing protests, a rarity among Gulf leaders. Internationally, Sheikh Sabah embraced Iraq after the U.S.-led 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam. He twice visited the country and helped Iraq and Kuwait reach a $500 million deal in 2012 to settle a long-running legal dispute between their state airlines over allegations of large-scale theft by Saddam. The emir also hosted a summit in 2018 that saw $30 billion pledged to help rebuild Iraq after the war against the Islamic State group. That’s even as Iraq still owes Kuwait reparations from Saddam’s 1990 invasion. One of his greatest challenges as a diplomat, however, came with the boycott of Qatar by four Arab nations that began in 2017. Sheikh Sabah positioned himself as a mediator for the political dispute, which he warned in a White House appearance in 2017 could have led to an armed conflict. “Thank God, now, what is important is that we have stopped any military action,” Sheikh Sabah said. Those mediation efforts have yet to resolve the crisis, but he did manage to get Qatar’s prime minister to shake hands on live television with Saudi King Salman at a 2019 meeting in Mecca. “We believe that wisdom will prevail,” Sheikh Sabah once said. A longtime widower, Sheikh Sabah lived for years in a palace known as Dar Salwa, which was named after his daughter Salwa, who died of cancer in 2002. He is survived by two sons.
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SPORTS
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The last time NASCAR races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, back in May, it was in front of empty grandstands. When the track hosts its Cup Series playoff race Oct. 11, it will be allowed to have 7,000 fans — 7% of its capacity — thanks to new reopening regulations put forth by the state.
With in-person fandom back Friday, large venues prepare
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Testing errors caused Georgia St. to postpone game vs. Charlotte Atlanta Georgia State says the positive COVID-19 tests that caused last Saturday’s football game at Charlotte to be postponed were the result of errors in reading the test results. Georgia State said Sunday that studentathletes were tested three times last week. All results from tests on Monday and Wednesday were negative, and positive results from Thursday tests became available on Friday, just before the team’s scheduled departure to Charlotte. Georgia State is scheduled to host East Carolina on Saturday, while the 49ers play at Florida Atlantic. The Georgia State-Charlotte game has not been rescheduled.
TENNIS
Isner faces Korda in French Open 2nd round Paris Greensboro native John Isner defeated Elliot Benchetrit in straight sets in the opening round of the French Open, setting up a matchup with fellow American Sebastian Korda on Wednesday at Roland Garros. The 20-year‑old Korda, who defeated Italian Andreas Seppi in four sets in the opening round, is the son of Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtova, two Czech-born retired tennis players. Korda and the 35-yearold Isner, the 21st-seed, will be playing for the first time.
POLO
UNC tops Duke in Battle of the Blues Efland North Carolina beat rival Duke 6-2 in the annual Battle of the Blues polo match held Sunday at Lloyd’s Dairy in Efland. The game was postponed one day because of heavy rains that made the field unsafe for the horses. The victory by the Tar Heels was only the third in the eight meetings since the polo series began in 2013.
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UNC coach Mack Brown said the Tar Heels’ three-week wait to play their second game is like “starting over.”
Tar Heels return to field with plenty of motivation UNC will play Saturday for the first time in three weeks, and Mack Brown’s team looks like N.C.’s best hope for a national contender By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE LAST TIME UNC played a football game, Sam Howell was 19, the Big Ten wasn’t playing football until spring and the Supreme Court had nine members. Clearly, a lot can change in three weeks, like Howell, who celebrated his 20th birthday two weeks ago, and the rest of the Tar Heels prepare for a trip to Boston College this weekend. “It’s the longest break we’ve taken in Carolina football in 68 years,” coach Mack Brown said. “We had a polio outbreak and took three weeks off.” “I was 1 year old at the time,” Brown added with a wry smile. That long break in 1952 also took place after the Tar Heels’ season opener. This time, a COVID outbreak on Charlotte’s offensive line forced the cancellation of the Sept. 19 nonconference game. UNC administration scrambled to find a new nonconference foe to play the following weekend, originally slated as an off-week, but nothing suitable could be found. Instead, the Heels will play Western Carolina on Dec. 11 in a Friday night home game — assuming, of course, an
“We’re definitely starting the season over. It seems like Syracuse was forever ago.” Mack Brown, UNC coach
ACC conference game doesn’t need to be made up by Carolina that weekend. In the meantime, the Tar Heels will have to get back to business with their first road game of the year. “Does it still hold true that you improve the most between the first and second game if there’s three weeks between them?” Brown asked. “I think not. We’re starting over.” Not that the news is all bad for UNC. “We had two good weeks of practice,” Brown pointed out. “Some of our injured players who wouldn’t have been able to play should be back. The players think it’s really good because we’re fresh.” The momentum and rhythm of the season have been interrupted, however. “We are definitely starting the See TAR HEELS, page B4
The state is allowing 7% capacity at outdoor facilities that hold 10,000 or more fans, and colleges, the Panthers and Charlotte Motor Speedway are all readying for the return of crowds By Brett Friedlander North State Journal WAKE FOREST AND DUKE are usually something of an afterthought on college football Saturdays compared to in-state rivals with larger, more vocal fan bases. This weekend, however, their home games are likely to garner significantly more interest — especially among athletic officials at North Carolina, NC State, East Carolina, Appalachian State and Charlotte. They won’t be as interested in the play on the field as much as the protocols in the stands when the Deacons and Blue Devils become the first athletic entities in the state to have home events with a limited number of fans in attendance. “We’ve been watching and monitoring games across the country since football restarted and we’ll continue to have conversations with our colleagues,” said Robbi Pickeral Evans, UNC’s associate athletic director for strategic communications and special assistant to athletic director Bubba Cunningham. “Not all experiences translate, but these conversations are certainly helping us inform our planning and execution.” UNC and others around the state played their home football games in September without fans in the stands. But now that Gov. Roy Cooper has relaxed coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings, crowds of up to 7% capacity at large outdoor venues holding 10,000 or more spectators are permitted. The new guidelines go into effect on Friday.
2,200 The number of fans who will be allowed to attend Friday night’s Wake Forest-Campbell game at Truist Field. Since UNC isn’t scheduled to play again at Kenan Stadium until next week and State has two more weeks before returning to Carter-Finley Stadium, officials there will have the benefit of learning from the experiences of others before hosting games of their own. Wake Forest’s rescheduled game against Campbell on Friday will be one of the trial balloons they’ll be closely watching. According to Deacons athletic director John Currie, about 2,200 tickets will be made available, with all seating assigned to provide for efficient contact tracing, if necessary. Truist Field has a published capacity of 31,500. The highest priority in the distribution of tickets will go to the parents of players on both teams, with 750 seats allocated to Wake students. The rest will be distributed among season ticket holders. Masks will be required of all in attendance. “Led by our associate AD Ellie Shannon, our staff has been both diligent and creative over the past six months to develop extensive and flexible social distancing plans that meet or exceed the standards of local and state health authorities and enable us to safely host student-athletes’ parents and families and a limited number of students and fans inside all our venues,” Currie said. “We believe that Deacon Nation will follow the example of our student-athletes in adhering to our COVID-19 risk mitigation See VENUES, page B4
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Khalid Martin: The NC State safety Khalid Martin was discharged from a Virginia hospital with no “radiographic abnormalities” after being examined for a possible spinal cord injury. The football team tweeted the update Sunday, a day after Martin collided with teammate Tyler Baker-Williams while attempting to tackle a Virginia Tech player in the third quarter of a 45-24 loss. The game was delayed for approximately 15 minutes while the NC State sports medicine staff attended to Martin. He was taken from the field in an ambulance for what the NC State communications staff initially said was a hip injury. Ron Roenicke: The Boston Red Sox manager will not be back in 2021, ending his tenure as a one-year, shotgun stopgap for a pandemic-shortened season with a last‑place finish in the AL East. Roenicke was hired on the eve of spring training after manager Alex Cora was let go for his part in the Astros cheating scandal during his time in Houston. Roenicke took over a roster that lost 2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts and 2012 AL Cy Young winner David Price and was without injured ace Chris Sale and Eduardo Rodriguez. Jay Johnstone: The two-time World Series champion, who played outfield for 20 seasons on eight teams, died Saturday of complications from COVID-19. He was 74. Johnstone, known for being a prankster, won titles with the Yankees and Dodgers. He had a career batting average of .267, with 102 home runs and 531 RBIs.
beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES
NHL
The Tampa Bay Lightning captured their second Stanley Cup on Monday, winning 2-0 in Game 6 to close out their series against the Dallas Stars and complete the strangest of NHL seasons. Defenseman Victor Hedman won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, finishing the postseason with 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points in 25 games, edging teammate Brayden Point for the honor.
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“We are in here as a team and as a brotherhood.” Panthers linebacker Jeremy Chinn on the team coming together after a meeting last week. JASON FRANSON | THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP
NASCAR
NBA
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“I gave him the opportunity to pull me. He did.” Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky after he was benched Sunday in favor of Nick Foles. PRIME NUMBER
14 Touchdown passes for Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson through three games after he had five scoring throws in Seattle’s 38-31 over Dallas. The former NC State standout broke Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ record of the most touchdowns in the first three weeks of the season. Mahomes had 13 touchdown passes in the first three games of the 2018 campaign.
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Kurt Busch reached Victory Lane for the first time since July 2019 and the first time ever at his home track, holding off Matt DiBenedetto to win Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The victory also guaranteed Busch one of eight spots in the third round of the series’ playoffs.
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Doc Rivers announced Monday that he is not returning as coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. The move comes about two weeks after the Clippers blew a 3-1 series lead to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals. The Clippers said Rivers and owner Steve Ballmer came to the decision jointly.
NFL
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Former NC State kicker Steven Hauschka found a new home Monday, becoming the third kicker in the past week for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Josh Lambo (hip) was placed on injured reserve last Wednesday, and undrafted rookie Brandon Wright missed an extra point and injured his groin in the lopsided loss to Miami, prompting the signing of the 12-year veteran Hauschka.
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Hurricanes pick 13th in 2020 NHL Draft Carolina, thanks to its trade last year with Toronto, will select in the top half of the opening round, one of eight picks the team holds for the Oct. 6-7 virtual event By Cory Lavalette North State Journal THE 2019-20 NHL season finally ended Monday night — more than three months after it was initially supposed to conclude — with the Tampa Bay Lightning claiming their second Stanley Cup. While next season’s start is still not set in stone, the league will begin its 2020-21 calendar with the NHL Draft on Oct. 6-7. Initially planned to be held in Montreal, the draft will be done virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. That could minimize the usual wheeling and dealing, which usually takes place on the draft floor in plain view, though several teams have had more than six months to map out their offseason and others have salary cap issues to figure out. The Carolina Hurricanes will enter the draft — which will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. with the first round and have Rounds 2-7 the following day — armed with eight draft picks, including the 13th overall pick and two selections in the second round. While Carolina shipped out its own first (22nd overall) to the Rangers in the trade that brought defenseman Brady Skjei to Raleigh, it will pick 13th thanks to the deal with cap-strapped Toronto during last year’s draft that sent Patrick Marleau — who was subsequently bought out — and 2020 first- and seventh-round picks to the Hurricanes in exchange for a sixth-round pick. Carolina also has the Rangers’ second-round pick — 41st overall, from the Adam Fox trade — to go with their 53rd overall pick, along with one in the third (69th), fourth (115th) and fifth (140th) and two in the seventh (199th, 208th).
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Russian goaltender Yaroslav Askarov is considered a sure-fire first-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft and could be targeted by Carolina.
2 The number of times the franchise has drafted a player 13th overall. The Hurricanes selected defenseman Jake Bean at that spot in 2016, and the Whalers chose goalie Jean-Sebastian Giguere with the No. 13 pick in 1995. Last year, the Hurricanes selected 12 players, led by firstround pick Ryan Suzuki and goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov and forward Jamieson Rees in the second round. The name most tied to Carolina leading into the draft is another Russian goalie, Yaroslav Askarov. While Alexis Lafreniere of the QMJHL’s Rimouski Oceanic — the same junior team that once featured Sidney Crosby — is the clear-cut No. 1 overall pick, no player has created more of a buzz than Askarov. The 6-foot-3 Omsk native is the consensus top goalie in the draft and ranked the 10th-best player overall in the NSJ Top
100 NHL Draft Rankings. Would Carolina try and solidify its uncertainties in net by picking Askarov at 13th overall? Just one goalie was taken in the first round a year ago — Florida selected Spencer Knight, also with the No. 13 pick — and only six goalies total have gone in the opening round since 2009. Of those six, only Jack Campbell (11th overall in 2010) has gone higher than the 13th slot the Hurricanes will select in, and you have to go back to 2005 — when Montreal selected Carey Price fifth overall — for a goalie to go in the top 10. Askarov might be worth it. The last two Russian goalies to
DRAFT PROSPECT SPOTLIGHT
Yaroslav Askarov, G 6’3, 176 pounds • SKA St. Petersburg (KHL) The clear-cut top goalie in the draft, Askarov combines size and athleticism with the confidence needed to become a No. 1 goalie.
NSJ Rank: 10 (No. 1 goalie) What they’re saying The Hockey News: “One of the best goaltending prospects in years.” Corey Pronman, The Athletic: “I think he will become an upper-echelon goalie in the NHL.” Craig Button, TSN: “He has completely dominated his age group time and time again.”
Jack Quinn, RW 6’, 179 pounds • Ottawa 67’s (OHL) Quinn’s big numbers could be skewed by the fact he’s the oldest player in this year’s draft who is eligible for the first time. Still, scoring 50-plus goals as an 18-year-old is impressive.
NSJ Rank: 11 What they’re saying The Hockey News: “Quinn evolved into one of the OHL’s deadliest attackers.” Corey Pronman, The Athletic: “A super skilled and smart player who scored a lot of goals around the net.” Craig Button, TSN: “I think he’s the best goal scorer available in the 2020 NHL Draft.”
Seth Jarvis, C/RW 5’9½, 179 pounds • Portland Winterhawks (WHL) A hard-working and intelligent player, Jarvis is small by old NHL standards but fits the current era by being elusive and hard to hit — and scoring a ton.
NSJ Rank: 15 What they’re saying The Hockey News: “He uses his smarts to avoid putting himself in a position to take a beating.” Corey Pronman, The Athletic: “The high-end pace of his game is what makes him so dangerous and will translate to higher levels.” Craig Button, TSN: “I think he’s going to be a real top-end producer in the National Hockey League.
go in the first round have proven to be worth the risk, with Tampa Bay taking Andrei Vasilevskiy with the 19th pick in 2012 and Washington choosing Ilya Samsonov at No. 22 in 2015. While an 18-year-old goalie would still be years away from contributing at the NHL level, Askarov is already proving he can hold his own against men — in his first three KHL games this season, he boasts a 0.74 goalsagainst average and .974 save percentage with SKA St. Petersburg. Of course, it’s possible Askarov won’t be there when Carolina picks at 13. So where could the Hurricanes go from there? Owner Tom Dundon has said on the record that the team will not be selecting defensemen in the first round under his watch, so that means Carolina would be looking at forwards with their pick. The Hurricanes could certainly use more help at right wing, and Luke Quinn (NSJ No. 11) fits the mold of a Carolina pick — an ultra-skilled and smart player who is competitive, though there are some concerns about his skating. Quinn had 89 points for the Ontario Hockey League’s Ottawa 67’s last season, including 52 goals, which ranked second in the OHL. There’s also Seth Jarvis (NSJ No. 15), who piled up 98 points — including 42 goals — in just 58 games for the Western Hockey League’s Portland Winterhawks last season. Like Quinn, he’s skilled and smart, but he also adds high-end skating to his repertoire. Another hard-working player, Jarvis makes up for his 5-foot-10 frame with his compete level. And just in case Dundon was throwing up a smokescreen, there’s defenseman Jake Sanderson (NSJ No. 9), whose father, Geoff, starred for the Hartford Whalers in the 1990s. Sanderson, who played for the U.S. National Team Development Program, is a smooth-skating and rangy defender who fits the mold of a Carolina defenseman.
NSJ’s 2019 NHL Draft Top 100 Prospects 1. Alexis Lafreniere, LW 2. Quinton Byfield, C 3. Tim Stutzle, C 4. Jamie Drysdale, D 5. Cole Perfetti, LW 6. Marco Rossi, C 7. Alexander Holtz, RW 8. Lucas Raymond, RW 9. Jake Sanderson, D 10. Yaroslav Askarov, G 11. Jack Quinn, RW 12. Dawson Mercer, RW 13. Anton Lundell, C 14. Connor Zary, C 15. Seth Jarvis, RW 16. Dylan Holloway, C 17. Braden Schneider, D 18. Rodion Amirov, LW 19. Hendrix Lapierre, C 20. Kaiden Guhle, D 21. Brendan Brisson, C 22. Jacob Perreault, C 23. Jeremie Poirier, D 24. John-Jason Peterka, RW 25. Justin Barron, D 26. Tyson Foerster, C 27. Noel Gunler, RW 28. Jan Mysak, LW 29. Mavrik Bourque, C 30. Thomas Bordeleau, C 31. Ridley Greig, C 32. Lukas Reichel, C 33. Sam Colangelo, RW 34. Ozzy Wiesblatt, RW 35. Helge Grans, D 36. Jake Neighbours, LW 37. Lukas Cormier, D 38. Topi Niemela, D 39. Ty Smilanic, C 40. Ryan O’Rourke, D 41. Roni Hirvonen, C 42. Jean-Luc Foudy, C 43. Justin Sourdif, C 44. Vasily Ponomarev, C 45. Martin Chromiak, LW 46. Emil Andrae, D 47. William Wallinder, D 48. Daniil Gushchin, RW 49. Daemon Hunt, D 50. Yan Kuznetsov, D 51. Shakir Mukhamadullin, D 52. Luke Tuch, LW 53. Zion Nybeck, RW 54. Luke Evangelista, RW 55. Dylan Peterson, C 56. Brett Berard, RW 57. Theo Niederbach, C 58. Sean Farrell, LW 59. Drew Commesso, G 60. Jaromir Pytlik, C 61. Antonio Stranges, LW 62. Carter Savoie, LW 63. Wyatt Kaiser, D 64. Alexander Pashin, RW 65. Joni Jurmo, D 66. Egor Sokolov, LW 67. Marat Khusnutdinov, C 68. Ryan Francis, RW 69. Brandon Coe, RW 70. Kasper Simontaival, LW 71. Daniel Torgersson, LW 72. Connor McClennon, RW 73. Roby Jarventie, LW 74. Donovan Sebrango, D 75. Mitch Miller, D 76. Ty Tullio, C 77. Brock Faber, D 78. Eamon Powell, D 79. Michael Benning, D 80. Nico Daws, G 81. Evan Vierling, C 82. Cross Hanas, LW 83. Eemil Viro, D 84. Ian Moore, D 85. Oliver Suni, RW 86. Blake Biondi, C 87. Ryder Rolston, RW 88. William Cuylle, LW 89. Pavel Novak, RW 90. Pavel Gogolev, LW 91. Maxim Groshev, RW 92. Tristen Robins, RW 93. Kasper Puutio, D 94. William Dufour, RW 95. Maksim Berezkin, LW 96. Theo Rochette, C 97. Alexander Nikishin, D 98. William Villeneuve, D 99. Anton Johannesson, D 100. Veeti Miettinen, RW
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Youth being served on Panthers defense The rookies led the way in the best performance by Carolina’s D in a year By Shawn Krest North State Journal THERE WERE plenty of bright spots in the Panthers’ win over the Chargers last weekend. Obviously, breaking through with the season’s first victory, as well as the first win of coach Matt Rhule’s NFL career, are significant. The most encouraging development, however, might have been the arrival of the Carolina Panthers defense. A weak spot last year and identified early as the Achilles’ heel on this year’s team, the Panthers’ D showed signs of improvement. Carolina held Los Angeles to 15 points, ending a team-record 14-game streak of giving up 20 or more points. The Panthers had given up at least 20 in 17 of the last 18 outings and had been tagged for 30-plus in their last six. The defense had four takeaways, matching its total for the last 10 games. Brian Burns helped lead the way with a stripsack on the Chargers’ second drive. The Panthers also recorded their first sacks of the season in the game after getting shut out rushing the quarterback in the first two outings. “We hit him, he left the game, he came right back,” Rhule said of Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert. “But I thought we were able to get on edges. Our guys took the challenge seriously. Like I said to you guys, we’re getting better. It’s week three of figuring out exactly who we are and how we do things. I thought guys took that to heart. We ran some more pressures. We are putting a little bit more in each week, and we were able to get there with some pressures. It wasn’t perfect, but I thought the pressure allowed us to be in the game.” Burns’ performance, after an up-and-down rookie campaign, gave rise to the possibility that he could be one of the building blocks for a young defense. “I’ll tell you, nobody will ever understand the struggles of getting close to the quarterback besides defensive ends or defensive tackles,” he said. “Today, I honestly still left a lot of sacks out there. I have to get on the drawing board and finish those sacks and capitalize. It was great to get that monkey off my back and finally get one.” It was nice to be the veteran, instead of the rookie struggling
to find his way. “Honestly, guys came to rush,” Burns said. “That’s how I see it. Guys knew we had a rookie quarterback. He did a good job, but when you have a rookie quarterback, you have to get in his face and affect him and that can ultimately be a deciding factor in the game. So going into this week, the preparation was get after the quarterback, get after the quarterback, perfect our moves.” The other promising newcomer on a defense loaded with them was linebacker Jeremy Chinn. The rookie had 12 tackles, and the only NFL player with more in Week 3 was fellow Panthers linebacker Shaq Thompson, who had 13. Chinn added a tackle for loss and a quarterback hit. “The big thing was just getting to the football,” he said. “When you get to the football, you run to the football, good things happen. That’s what happened today. There was definitely emphasis on getting to the football, 11 hats to the ball, something is bound to happen, ball is bound to get poked out or get tipped or something. The defense did a good job of doing that today.” The Panthers gained offseason notoriety for devoting every pick in the draft to the defensive side of the ball. That decision is bearing fruit. Nearly one-third of the team’s tackles on Sunday — 24 of 76 — were made by rookies. Newbies also provided two-thirds of the team’s tackles for loss — four of six. “Really, every day we are learning still,” Chinn said. “It’s still a whole new defense for everybody. So just continuing to learn and learn. You know, get more comfortable as the weeks go by. It’s definitely a learning process, so I’m excited to keep on and continue to get better. For the defense, you know the rest of the defense to continue to learn and play as a unit.” First-rounder Derrick Brown had five tackles, three for loss, and jumped on the fumbled lateral that ended the game to make sure the Chargers didn’t find some way to keep the play alive. “What a great effort by Derrick Brown,” Rhule said. “Here’s a 330-pound guy running down the field and gets the ball.” There’s still plenty of football to play and plenty of trials by fire for the defense this season, but the kids gave a flash of what’s to come. “Nothing like getting the first one,” Burns said “Now they can start rolling in.”
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Defensive end Brian Burns and the Panthers defense helped lead Carolina on Sunday to its first win of the Matt Rhule era.
VENUES from page B1 measures, including mandatory mask wearing and social distancing.” Because Duke’s Wallace Wade Stadium, with a capacity of 40,000, is slightly bigger than Wake’s home field, 2,800 will be able to attend Saturday’s game against Virginia Tech. The Blue Devils, however, have not publicly announced their policy on who will have access to tickets and what protocols they will be required to follow once they enter the gate. Because of standards set by both the state and ACC, they are likely to be similar to those in place at Wake, UNC and State. On the professional side, the Carolina Panthers have already prepared Bank of America Stadium with hand sanitizing stations and signage instructing fans that do attend, starting with Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals, aware of social distancing rules that are being put in place. The Panthers have also teamed up with Honeywell to distribute personal protective equipment packs for fans and staff members as they enter the stadium. With a capacity of 75,412, Bank of America Stadium can accommodate 5,278 personal seat license holders — each of whom will be given the option of attending two home games for the remainder of the season.
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Quintisha Forrester and her family have participated in the Blue Ridge to the Beach Challenge by riding on Durham’s American Tobacco Trail and the Neuse River Trail in Raleigh.
Virtual bike tour through NC promotes health, charity The Blue Ridge to the Beach Challenge has provided an outlet for exercise and community during the coronavirus pandemic By Brett Friedlander North State Journal WENDY MORRIS was determined not to become housebound during the coronavirus pandemic that has sent so many people’s lives screeching to a halt. So she decided to ride her bicycle from Asheville to Wrightsville Beach. And the most amazing part of her accomplishment is that the Cary resident made the 475-mile trek from the mountains to the coast while spending her summer staying with family members in Montana. That’s an awfully long distance to travel, especially from such a distance. But Morris and more than 5,500 other North Carolinians have been able to do it and stay active while traversing the state virtually as part of the Blue Ridge to the Beach Challenge. “This was great because it got me out there regularly when I couldn’t go to the gym because of the coronavirus,” Morris, an avid cyclist and recreational triathlete, said. “We have a group where we keep track of each other’s progress and cheer each other on. It’s fun to be out there with other people, even if you can’t actually be out there with other people.” While Morris has done most of her riding on the trails from afar, other weekend warriors have devised their own methods of getting from one end of the state to the other. Barb Farrell, for one, puts her bike on the back of the car and drives to Oak Island, where the terrain is flatter and traffic lighter, to get her miles in, while Quintisha Forrester does her riding with members of her family on Durham’s American Tobacco Trail and Raleigh’s Neuse River Trail. Others do their pedaling on stationary bikes or Pelotons. Some don’t ride at all — in addition to the bike challenge, there are also walk/ run and cross-training challenges available. “You can either walk, ride, run,
Even more fans will be able to get into the stands for the upcoming NASCAR Roval 400 at 100,000-seat Charlotte Motor Speedway on Oct. 11. Unlike the college football teams around the state, officials at CMS already have a working plan in place for the “new normal,” thanks to races already held at its sister tracks owned by Speedway Motorsports, LLC. “We’ve had some key learnings from our sister tracks including Bristol, New Hampshire and Texas, who have each successfully hosted fans during the pandemic,” CMS executive vice president and general manager Greg Walter said. “We look forward to implementing those ideas, among others, to be sure that fans can focus on fun while they’re here.” While the financial impact of having such a small number of paying customers in attendance isn’t likely to make a dent in the losses suffered by all sports entities around the state — especially the colleges — every little bit is bound to help. But according to Panthers owner David Tepper, having fans returning to the stands has benefits that go far beyond the bottom line. “I don’t love all the red ink that we’re going to see this year, but I hate more not seeing the fans in the building,” Tepper said last month. “I have other means. I do have other businesses. I’m using this for the fans and for football.”
swim, jog, roller skate, anything you want to do,” Farrell said. “You can sign up to do it any way you want.” Farrell has already completed the challenge once and has made it all the way from Asheville to Shallotte on her second virtual trip across the state. While the 475 miles sounds like a lot — it is, actually, no matter where you’re riding or walking — participants have six months to complete the journey. That comes out to about 18 miles per week, or just over two miles per day. New challenges, called waves, begin every month. The event is currently on its fifth wave since starting up in May. Finishers earn a medal and a T-shirt while accumulating badges along the way for every city they reach — Charlotte at Mile 117, Winston-Salem at Mile 200, Greensboro at Mile 230, Chapel Hill at Mile 278, Durham at Mile 290, Fayetteville at Mile 372 and Wilmington at Mile 465. An interactive map is available so riders and runners can track their progress. “It’s been really good for my whole family,” said Forrester, who along with her husband and 15-year-old daughter has made it as far as Fayetteville. “It’s good to know that there are other people with you trying to be healthy and you’re not out there alone.” The Blue Ridge to the Beach Challenge came about as the result of a brainstorming session among the staff of Endurance magazine, said the publication’s publisher and founder Steve Lackey. “We were looking for ways to motivate and inspire people, so we started with something a little less aggressive,” Lackey said. “We called it the Carolina Food Run. These were much shorter (events) with no map. People could choose anywhere from 30 to 120 miles in six weeks. And it was great. But it didn’t feel like it connected people as much as we wanted it to when you’re virtual.” So Lackey and his staff went back to the drawing board looking to do something — in his words — a little more epic. “We wanted to connect people with travel, and since you can’t really travel that easily right now, you can imagine being in these places and getting yourself there,” Lack-
TAR HEELS from page B1 season over,” Brown said. “It seems like Syracuse was forever ago. I thought we were one of the fortunate teams to have two home games to open the season, to get used to playing in this (pandemic) environment. Then we lost our second game (to COVID) and now we have to get on a plane.” Brown’s biggest worry is that the Tar Heels haven’t been at game speed, which could lead to turnovers. “I’m concerned about ball protection,” he said, “because you don’t tackle full speed. We would have gotten some of that against Charlotte.” The Tar Heels have quickly become the state’s last hope for a successful college season in 2020. The other three ACC teams in North Carolina are a combined 1-6, with the only win coming when NC State and Wake Forest played each other. East Carolina, Charlotte and App State are a combined 2-3, again with both wins coming over in-state foes (App over Char-
“It’s fun to be out there with other people, even if you can’t actually be out there with other people.” Wendy Morris
ey said. “Hopefully when things settle back down to what we used to feel was closer to normal, we can add some physical elements to these challenges. We’re really thrilled to see how exciting people are finding it.” One real-life aspect that’s already associated with the Blue Ridge to the Beach Challenge is the charitable contributions it has made to local North Carolina food banks and hunger relief programs to benefit people struggling through the coronavirus pandemic. Through entry fees and other donations, the event, combined with the previous Carolina Food Run, has already raised nearly $100,000. “We pick local affiliates for each challenge,” Lackey said, “so that people feel like that the money they’re donating goes to where they live.” The ability to help others in their time of need, however, is just one of the positive aspects that has come about through the Blue Ridge to the Beach Challenge. Like Morris, it has become a source of motivation for many to get up and start moving again. “The stories we’re hearing are remarkable,” Lackey said. “You hear people say, ‘I’ve lost 100 pounds in 12 months, I’m coming back from a battle with cancer,’ but we’ve also heard from people that contracted COVID earlier in the year and are using this to work through severe respiratory challenges. “We have people from 50 states participating, people from other countries, but the majority of the people can relate to the route because they’re from Asheville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville or Wilmington. This challenge has been great because it’s something you can feel connected to while you’re doing it.”
lotte and FCS team Campbell). With an elite quarterback and plenty of returning star power on both sides of the ball, UNC is looking to make a national statement this year. The Tar Heels impressed in the season opener over the Orange and moved as high as No. 11 in the AP poll. They’re currently No. 12, moving down to make room for the Big Ten’s return to the rankings. Looking at the Tar Heels’ schedule, a trip to the ACC Championship Game isn’t out of the realm of possibility. This week’s trip to 2-0 Boston College will be a test, followed by next week’s home game against a Virginia Tech team that looked strong in a blowout of NC State last week despite missing 23 players and two assistant coaches due to quarantine. Then things seem to open up for the Heels. A trip to Florida State doesn’t look quite as daunting after the Noles have fallen to Georgia Tech and Miami already this season. Then comes NC
State, which appears to be down from the years that the Wolfpack seemed to have the Tar Heels’ number. A Halloween trip to Virginia will be a showdown, followed by currently winless in-state foes Duke and Wake Forest. That will set up a pair of season-ending games that could determine who will face Clemson in Charlotte for a potential spot in the College Football Playoff — a home game against Notre Dame and a trip to Miami. All of which is assuming that the pandemic doesn’t continue to disrupt things — a big assumption indeed, especially considering that Notre Dame is currently experiencing an outbreak on the team that postponed last week’s game at Wake. For the time being, though, the Tar Heels are preparing for a game, something that hasn’t happened since back in the days that their quarterback was still a teenager. “Even if we don’t play well,” Brown said, “I think it’s important to be playing.”
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I understand the seriousness of the virus an he crisis caused by China in perspective, zero millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out of work. In o and state and local governments, Americans have rldwide panic, economic collapse and in it” (Psalm 118:24). catastrophe one way or another. 3,341 related deaths has led to wo Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month. thanks localThe or state governments, a majority of at Americans to take precautions, but with how people who sim mics traceout their source the United States over crisis has cost the U.S. taxpayer least $2.4 trillion in added worldw ce orcan stay-at-home fallen to into place. Iorders understand thetoseriousness of the virus and the the curve inI’m the uneasy novel coronavirus outbreak. The e being thrown of work. I know that during Incalled order toneed put thenormal.” crisis causedVirginia’s by Chinastay-at-home in perspective, zero millions of Americans needlessly orders godata, into and June. are having to adjust to what is being the “new questions about the when things can start getting ry. At least four in the 20th century alone can be debt plus trillions more in Federal Reserve backup liquidity to the ty of at Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask muted — after all, trends can easily reverse — but our 23 ayer least $2.4 trillion in added working from home worldwide pandemics can trace their source to theCarolina, United States over Gov.The crisis hasstated cost the U.S. taxp Here in North Democratic Roywith Cooper during Some of these extend least through the of this month. normal are treated in some circles contempt. China: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong flu,”and 1977 markets andatfinancial outlets. If end the U.S. dollar were not the reserve normal.” questions about Kong the data, when orders things can start getting back tohistory. have abided by recommendations and orders. The Reserve backup liquidity to the directl be glad” as the Bible our 231-year At least fourainrecent the 20th century alone can be that debt plus trillions more in Federa coronavirus press briefing “we just don’t know yet” if the Virginia’s stay-at-home orders into June. They’re treated asatthough we as a practiced society simply must acce heU.S. 2002 SARS outbreak. There is evidence thatcircles the withcurrency, wego would not be able to fund any of these emergency nd of this month. are treated in some contempt. to stay home; they’ve social distancin he dollar were notnormal the reserve and dad, the Easter “Russi Perhaps directly traced to China: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong orders Kong flu,” 1977 markets and financial outlets. If t state’s stay-at-home willgovernment extend into May. Since when didWALTER E. WILLIAMS inwe North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during question what the tells us we about when it’s safe to toa though as a society simply must accept without nish alsoThey’re had itstreated originsasinHere China. measures without immediate rampant inflation and currency they’ve donned masks. fund flu” any pandemic of these emergency have tonot bethe thankful “Russian flu” andfear theof 2002 SARS outbreak. There is evidence that the currency, would be massiv able Perhaps If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to BEN GARVER | COVID-19 THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE VIA AP We need WALTER E. WILLIAMS recent coronavirus presswhen briefing that just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy. questioning per stated during question whatCOVID-19 the agovernment tells usdepreciation. about it’s massive safe to“we begin the The result: a reduction in expected hospitalizat Lenten and greement, outside China, that of rampant inflationofand currency pandemic. 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic also had for its origins in China. measures without fea justification it. And the answers should not be vague onesimmediate like “we The COVID-19 is China’s know yet” if the process ofshot returning backstay-at-home to normalcy. orders will extend into May. No. The government works for us, andofwe have to According to theseasons University Washington Institu A patient receives a flu fromstate’s a healthcare professional in this file photo. For me,the myright faith is an Province probably from the completely China hasundated to pay for their aberrant waysoutside andmust decisions government Since when did There is 100% agreement, oftransparency China, thatof COVID-19 depreciation. origin do thisthrough out an abundance Easter of caution.” is China’s No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by m If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place a ant ways and decisions through making. As I celebra and honesty nsanitary wetarticles markets. Some believe it came out of but a iseconomic means. obviously not Chernobyl. originated inwork. Wuhan Provincehas probably from the completely has pay for their aberr provide a China at allDiplomacy levels It will need toworked be explained in detail to the people ofto this state whounregu graduates only able toand findfinancial low-paying ned in two past that student debt is questioning asked as to the questions. And thejustification longer stay-at-home in place all over the Trump administration, theand expected need for hosp plomacy has obviously not worked Corinthians 1:4, whi it.agreement, And the are answers should not be unsanitary vague ones likecentury “webeing country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such asDM Chernobyl. by the Chinese army. toorders bring China into thean civilized world of 21st health, hygiene unregulated and wet markets. Some believe it came out of a economic financial means. from our Under anfor ISA he would owe agreedlem and communist that universities have encouraged are told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined biowar message of become a government gue ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such as Michigan, peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, orld of 21st century health, hygiene affliction, so that wew mustupon do of this out ofand an abundance ofthe caution.” the more people,predicting sitting at home feeling isolated and/or run by the communist Chinese army. to we bring China into the pts verifiablebehavior. policing With and regulation fair trade.—biowarfare Totalitarian communist regimes never take the blame percentage of his income actual lab dollar theirrigorous own irresponsible scientific experts amount of time why models hundreds thousands of civilized casesanxi Unt hope that willof bad thing? the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of ov unist regimes never take the blame affliction, with the co at uncertain all levelsfinancial It amount will to be in detail to China theand people ofrigorous this state who when theyregulation can get back their families,their will d would be very low. With a Until traditional loan, adopts verifiable policing and of to providing and fair for trade. Totalitarian comm e graduates facing an nd health protocols, American business has no need other orexplained express sincere regret remorse, because that not what are reliable. f —iswe need to once again enjoy of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand August by nearly 12,000. rse, because that is not what God.” That is what he would owe the same amount regardless of his t’s particularlymanufacturing important to find solutions their food safety and health protocols, American business has no other or express sincere regret and rem are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. d redundant plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of every weakness To date, I’ve gone along with what the state has asked and then become a choice know what they ndetermined answers. Here’s the problem: We still don’t the ans sporting events, take advantage of every weakness If you are celebrat Evenwhy with income-based repayment on his So, what’s to bereasons done? choice than to build redundant manufacturing plants purely totalitarian governments do. The amount of time models predicting hundreds ofcitizens thousands of cases at local levels should beknow as forthcom free mandated we do,elsewhere butthe along theand waystate I’ve also had questions about ty and safety as well asat supply andincome. delivery they find in adversaries and keep pushing until theyknow, winthat orLeaders the for nat bad thing? housands of cases Leaders the local and state levelslikely should be as forthcoming as they what they questions that will allow the economy to reopen. pushing until they win or the loan, he would make interest-only payments as dical proposals, like completely reflect on this messa concerts, family forback. national security and safety reasons as well supply delivery they find in adversaries and keep are reliable. canasbe with and those answers and again, not vague answers, the data. State Republican leaders have,—too. s.student loans and making adversaries push living in a free reliabi canisbe with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but concerns. answer what is the true coronavirus fatality rate?c the principal continued to mount. them subject AMERICA’S COLLEGES areFirst, rife with God’sback. example don’t and when That what reliability adversaries push gatherings, Unfortunately, when certain types of statements questions get asked, there is and AMERICA’S COLLEGES rife with To I’veUniversity gonebelievability. along with what theexogenous state society has asked and then with details that give their believability. way to make China “pay” for work. thisare disaster isdate, tostatements offer That is, unless an event happens such asThe the Chernobyl The Purdue is already experimenting with were ptcy protection, would certainly corruption. financial squeeze resulting ked and then with details that give their important because it determines whether certain nt happens such as the Chernobyl this difficult time. Th most direct way to make China “pay” for this disaster to offer That is, ankeep exogenous ev they toshould corruption. Thesource financial squeeze resulting sometimes aoffers disturbing among some people to treat thoseour church services free citizens mandated that wewe do,can but along the The way I’ve also had questions about We allis continue to do what weunless can to fam companies who will at least half of ISAs their meltdown in plan. 1986. Some experts believe that event, nothope the Star Warstendency under its “Back a Boiler” The program is ders who put their own money on the line from COVID-19 opportunities for a U.S. ta questions about We should all continue to do what to keep our families, be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — believe that event, not the Star Wars confident we will em supposed from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a U.S. taxtoo. credits to companies whosimply willSponsored source at least half ofour their meltdown instart 1986. Somealso experts by know they questioning the data and asking when we can getting back data. State Republican leaders have, ourselves, and communities safe. But we should stil and many more Sponsored by nue the United States. There is approximately $120 program of Research Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of thewhat Soviet Union Sponsored being funded byBut thewe Purdue Foundation, diligence lending to 18-yearbit of remediation. Let’s first examine what living inby aUnion free ourselves, and ourthe communities safe. should also still continue more liberalized society that presumes wide sprea produc Sponsored by the dissolution of the Soviet In this same spirit bit ofbefore remediation. Let’s first examine what back in the United States. 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Andthere the fear of students filing forcorruption, might the of academic merican direct in plants and equipment in while 1989. after our own asked, isbeinvestment to of ask questions about reasonable ought to lock further. might the root academic billion neighbors helping ne society were don’t know what that looks like. lead to stay-at-home a worse than usual season, Norththe State Journal billion worth of American direct investment in plants and equipment in 1989. otherwise don’t care if they get themselves or others sick. now but is already showing positive results. ydirect would ensure loans are and suggested by the title of a recent study,seen checked. sometimes disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expir suggested byin the title ofsmall a is recent study, investment the U.S. about $65 program billion aby Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. ehernobyl. to treat those that measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. We’ve case fatality rates — the number of temporary In Concord, a high in Chi We assume though that because overwhelming the hospitals and in the China. Chinese direct investment in the U.S. did is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 China’s Cd Since when questioning government at all levels become aisbad supposed Purdue’s website explains aand few of benefits of can “Academic Grievance Studies and the “Academic and to the simply questioning data asking when we start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in North State Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 starttalking getting backGrievance ThisStudies is all new Americans, and it isthe not normal. Not in any way, Senators inother Washington are already talking about the possibility the number of identified COVID-19 cases —compa but ba they’re both viruses with a signifihealth resources. RALEIGH — The ongoing eady about the possibility money to buy aare 3-D sacrifices are society comparison. Senators inwere Washington alr thing? That is what free citizens living in a free supposed ISAs: pandemic hare a solution is politically unpopular. Corruption of Scholarship.” The was Corruption of Scholarship.” The study was cant impact, that it would not bestudy athe to do, last Iform. do worry that people may is they grabbing to normal as though areforgiving conspiracy theorists or are people who shape, or form. So while we should remain vigilant and stay A6 people who shape, or SoCOVID-19 while weChina should remain vigilant and“You stay safe, at and denominator are likely wrong. We don’t k ax credit of 30% on half of U.S. investment in of China $1.2 trillion in debt we owe them as one way to get debt we owe them as one way to get health care workers Anini An investment tax credit ofdone 30% on half U.S. investment in China over. of China forgiving $1.2 trillion toby do, lastof I checked. The standard payment period for the Back onsiderably reduce thean number Areo, an opinion and analysis done byManufacturing Areo, opinionofand analysis 2020 good combination.” beso-called in their homes, especially those all the headlines, but the of get a this the same time wemanufacturing shouldn’t get comfortable with “new otherwise don’t care ifisrisk they themselves or itothers sick. the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-call people have actually died of coronavirus. Some so yick. have caused the US. Don’t hold your on, applied tofor repatriated American China to “pay” for the damage they have caused the US. American Don’t hold your checked. today, or $60 billion, applied to repatriated manufacturing China to “pay” for the damage the today, digital magazine. By the way, Areo is short a Boiler-ISA Fund about 10 years, making ble to borrow college and would digital magazine. By the way, Areo is short My first concern as we go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m Week kicks off across North Carolina’s state health at risk, so they don’t wantbecome to go a bad badSince flu year should notquestioning be ignored, government s become a bad normal.” number has been overestimated, given that classifi when did at all levels normal.” ee” to happen but ask your elected U.S. would cost the U.S. Treasury $18 billion in breath waiting for a Chinese “Jubilee” to happen but ask your elected Areopagitica, a speech delivered by competitive with investment to the cost the U.S. Treasury billion inby virus, and breath waiting Ifor a Chinese “Jub most FederaltoPlus and private loan ionately for affect low-income students. It UnitedHealthcare’s Areopagitica, a speech delivered worried about them$18 catching I’m worried will. Afterinvestm director, Dr. Elizabeth Cuervo Til-the a provider’s office toU.S. get would the flufor chief medical the state ydisfavor werea supposed Notinone little bit. ofspeech. death, particularly among elderlyhold patients, untable in tangible financial ways for thing? That whatrepresentatives free living ina asix-month free society were one little bit. John Milton in defense of free speech. over few years. $18 billion in lost revenue to revenue hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for terms. Inisaddition, all students receive students majoring soft but John Milton in defense of revenue free tax spread over a fewsupposed years. $18 billion in lost is(swine China acc son, expressed aNot similar concern because they’re worried,” officer inis North Carolina, Dr.citizens Mi- vaccine taxcan rev suffering from the H1N1 virus flu) representatives during the 2009topandemic, Authors Pluckrose, James A.we sources suggest the number is dramatically under —Helen Governor Roy to do, last I checked. grace period post-graduation before payments begin.doingtoviriplines. Authors Helen Pluckrose, James A. inI’ve a recent press release: “This fluprecautions, said. “They’re Bucknor, told North State Bucknor pared to RALEIGH the $6 trillion+ Marshall Planchelle are now decimal dust compared the $6 trillion+ Marshall Plan we are now this disaster. this disaster. been trying to take extra because all of this brings up decim Lindsay andcan Peter Boghossian say has that Cooper proclaimed e, is my family. I’m Stacey Matthews also written the Sister Toldjah many people are dying at home. to operate asthat responsible citizens of Once recipient makes successful for season, it isPeter more important than ed solutions beSeptember implemented — Lindsay and Boghossian say that tual visits, which we Journal in aain Sept. 24 interview. My first concern as we go along inpayments all this, of isown my family. Stacey Matthews has also written the Sist undertaking tocourse, saveencourage, ourto economy, not of defeated enemies as in the It isunder about timepseudonym they expect e are our own economy, not of defeated enemies as theunder It ispseudonym about time they are expected operate as I’m responsible citizens of way too many memories of a painful experience I’d prefer not to are repeat. under something has gone drastically wrong 27 October 3, 2020 ied I will. Afterpoliticaland is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. Even more importantly, we have no clue how m ever to get against the but at no some point they should gosomething “I think the biggest concern iscontract, the prescribed term of the additional sation. acrimonious climate. hasvaccinated gone drastically wrong past. the world like any other modern worried about them catching the virus, and I’m worried I will. After and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrec the world like any other modern nation. But what also makes me lose sleep is how easily most everyone has as Manufacturing Week in within certain in academia, especially past. n flu. We willespecially have bothwithin the flu and out and get that flu vaccine.” that ifpayments people don’t get the flu vac2009 pandemic, are required even if they have paid less actually have coronavirus. Some scientists sugges solution has been referred to as “skin in in academia, certain China has been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American suffering from the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, North Carolina. cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American fields within the humanities. They call Chin COVID-19 widely circulating said, ideally, everyone thatfields wethe also have COVID, that theyShe than amount of funding received. Such a policy would callisfor institutions cine and within the humanities. They calltheycases could be an order of magnitude of this brings up ofthis identified North Carolina the business now for the past 30 years. They have made noare secret that these fields “grievance studies,” where I’ve been trying to take extra precautions, because all of this brings up he past 30 years. They have made no secret that they fall and winter, and we learnis eligible, which includes all those having both of those viruses that busine Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion Both ISAs and skin in the game policies would hare the risk of every student these fields “grievance studies,” where and refer in not tocredit repeat. number of people who have had coronavirus and n seventh largest manufacturing scholarship is not so much basedinupon intend to U.S. not as premier superpower in the world wayworld too many memories of abenefits. painful experience I’up, dthe prefer toing repeat. that people get both infec6 months oldreplace and would getthe affect people’s health he as premier superpower the and have many down-stream Both would put outU.S. a loan tothe attend the institution. 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Coca-Cola, Molson Coors teaming up on hard seltzer Silver Spring, Md. With the help of Molson Coors, Coca-Cola will start selling the “hard stuff” — hard seltzer, that is. The companies said the new alcoholic beverage will come in the form of Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, which they hope to have on store shelves in the first half of 2021. The hard seltzer will come in four flavors: Tangy Lemon Lime, Exotic Pineapple, Strawberry Guava and Tropical Mango. Molson Coors, which has two other seltzer brands in its portfolio, will handle the marketing, sales and distribution of the alcoholinfused mineral water, a product that has seen massive growth in the U.S. recently. IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, a data firm, said sales of hard seltzers like White Claw and Truly jumped more than 200% last year to $1.5 billion. The data firm said late last year that it expects consumption of hard seltzer to triple by 2023.
Amazon sees its palm recognition tech in stadiums, offices Seattle Amazon has introduced new palm recognition technology in a pair of Seattle stores and sees broader uses in places like stadiums and offices. Customers at the stores near Amazon’s campus in Washington can flash a palm for entry and to buy goods. The company chose palm recognition, according to Dilip Kumar, vice president of Physical Retail & Technology, because it’s more private than other biometric technology, and a person would be required to purposefully flash a palm at the Amazon One device to engage. The company expects to roll out Amazon One as an option in other Amazon stores in the coming months, which could mean Whole Foods Market grocery stores. But Amazon believes the technology is applicable elsewhere. “In most retail environments, Amazon One could become an alternate payment or loyalty card option with a device at the checkout counter next to a traditional point of sale system,” Kumar said. “Or, for entering a location like a stadium or badging into work, Amazon One could be part of an existing entry point to make accessing the location quicker and easier.”
LAKES from page B5 tion has produced Supreme Court rulings and regulatory tinkering. But cooling reservoirs for power plants were covered until the Trump rewrite, Holleman said. Lake Keowee, which provides cooling waters for a Duke Energy nuclear plant near Seneca, South Carolina, is 26 miles long and up to 54 feet deep. It’s a water sports haven and a drinking water source for several cities. Alice Guzick, who lives beside the scenic reservoir in the Appalachian mountains, said she fears the regulatory change will make builders less careful to prevent runoff as homes spring up along the shoreline. “That sediment could cause a lot of pollution,” Guzick said. “There are many small businesses that would fail if the water were ever contaminated.” The Edison Electric Institute, which advocates for power companies, last year asked the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to group cooling ponds with unregulated waste treatment systems, saying confusion over their status had led to costly lawsuits. But the industry wasn’t seeking a loophole to leave large reservoirs unprotected, said Alex Bond, the
group’s associate general counsel for energy. He said critics are exaggerating what the wording change will mean. “Generally speaking, the entire lake is not considered the waste treatment system,” Bond said, but rather the area near a plant where hot water is discharged. “Anything beyond that would be subject to regulation.” EPA said in a statement that federal agencies “do not anticipate changes in longstanding implementation practices associated with these systems.” Duke Power spokesman Philip Sgro said the company pushed for the wording change to be sure its coal ash retention basins at Sutton Lake and other reservoirs were excluded from the clean-water regulation. They are being closed and their contents moved to landfills. “The lakes and reservoirs used for public access and recreation will remain classified as waters of the United States, and permits will still be required to discharge wastewater into them,” Srgo said. The power industry says state laws also will protect large reservoirs. But they are often weaker than the federal Clean Water Act and many don’t allow citizen groups to sue over violations, Holleman said.
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Amber Skiles, a contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency labels water samples from the Dan River as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash in Eden, N.C.
US ambassador defends tough approach to China The Associated Press BEIJING — The departing U.S. ambassador on Tuesday defended a tough approach to China that has riled relations between the world’s two largest economies, saying the Trump administration has made progress on trade and that he hopes that will extend to other areas. Terry Branstad, the longtime Iowa governor chosen by President Donald Trump to be envoy to China, agreed however that China has generally reacted to pressure by responding in kind, from closing consulates to imposing import tariffs. “The unfortunate thing is we’re trying to rebalance the relationship so we have fairness and reciprocity, but every time we do something, they keep it unbalanced,” he said in an interview at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Branstad is returning to Iowa this weekend after three years and three months as ambassador in Beijing, the longest he and his wife have lived outside of his home state. No successor has been named. After launching a trade war in 2018 and restricting Chinese telecom giant Huawei on national security grounds, the Trump administration has further ramped up pressure on China this year. It imposed new restrictions on Chinese diplomats and journalists; closed the Chinese consulate in
Houston and repeatedly criticized China on multiple fronts, from its handling of the coronavirus to its military moves in the South China Sea and its human rights record in Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region, home to largely Muslim ethnic groups. China has rebuked the U.S. and taken parallel measures, including the closing of a U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu. With almost daily heated exchanges, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that ties face their gravest challenge since the normalization of relations in 1979. Branstad downplayed such fears, noting the relationship has weathered ups and downs in the past. He conceded, though, the concern that pressure on China could lead to a downward spiral of growing restrictions. He cited the so-called phase one trade deal, reached in January, and China’s agreement to list fentanyl as a controlled substance as positive developments. The U.S. has been trying to reduce the flow of the opioid from China. On trade, China promised to strengthen protection of foreign technology rights and industry secrets. China has made similar promises in the past, and companies say they are waiting to see how the commitments are carried out. “I think in the area of trade, we’ve got their attention and we’re making progress,” Branstad said.
“I think in the area of trade, we’ve got their attention and we’re making progress.” U.S. Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad “I hope we can in the other (areas), in terms of the treatment of our media, the treatment of our diplomats.” Branstad, who traveled widely in China during his stint, complained about needing to get government approval for every visit. He asked to go to Tibet three times before his visit last year. Once there, though, he said he had open exchanges with students and teachers. Elsewhere, his experience varied. The former Iowa governor has longstanding ties to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and was initially seen as someone who could soothe relations. He came to China as governor in 1984 after signing a sister-state agreement with Hebei province, and he met Xi the following year when the then-county level Communist Party official visited Iowa as head of an agricultural delegation. While the U.S.-China relationship has become fraught, Branstad maintained that such long-term ties remain valuable. He said he
has met Xi several times since arriving in China in 2017, including a private family dinner in early 2018 that included Branstad’s daughter and grandchildren. “I think he still has very good feelings about me and about Iowa and the way we treated him,” Branstad said. “And, you know, I found in this culture, personal relationships are important. And yet I represent the United States.” Branstad blamed the coronavirus for souring the relationship, saying Xi had assured Trump the outbreak was under control when in fact it wasn’t. China has been criticized for covering up the crisis in the initial days, though praised for its strict measures to stem the spread later. “0bviously, that’s had a lot to do with, I think, the president’s feelings towards China,” Branstad said. Trump has blamed China for the pandemic, which some analysts see as an attempt to deflect blame from his handling of the crisis ahead of a tough re-election battle in November. Branstad expects to campaign in Iowa for Trump and other Republican candidates. He said he would focus in part on what the administration has done in China and the need to maintain a relationship but insist on fairness. “I’ve never lost an election and it’s still in my blood,” the 73-yearold political veteran said.
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U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad speaks near a photo wall showing former U.S. ambassadors to China as well as his own portrait during an interview at the U.S. embassy in Beijing on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020.
FLU from page B5 solved. Bucknor says the hospital system is prepared, but they don’t want to push too hard on an already-stressed system. “I think we’re in a good place, and we pretty quickly reduced the number of elective procedures to make sure that we had enough equipment and staff available to support folks. So I think our state would modify as needed, and hospital systems as well, if we had a high flu season and high COVID rates at the same time.”
While these negative effects of the pandemic are one possibility, Bucknor also said that social distancing precautions may actually make it a less intense year for the flu, as evidenced by data she’s seen from the southern hemisphere. “In some countries where they’ve done really good job social distancing and using precautions, they’ve had less flu. We’re hopeful that that’s the case,” Bucknor said, while reiterating that North Carolinians should make sure to get the flu vaccine this year. UnitedHealthcare has over 1.4 million members in N.C.
“This flu season, it is more important than ever to get vaccinated against the flu. We will have both the flu and COVID-19 widely circulating this fall and winter, and we are learning that people can get both infections at the same time.” N.C. health director Dr. Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson
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2020 Mazda MX-5 RF The best affordable sports car in the world By Jordan Golson North State Journal
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BOSTON — Mazda loves to remind us that it makes the best-selling two-seater sports car in history. The company mentions this in just about every press release it issues on the Miata. It’s even certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. With more than a million units sold over the past thirty years, the Miata — or MX-5 in the rest of the world — has been a reliable pick for folks looking for an authentic sports car experience at an affordable price. Lotus founder Colin Chapman said his theory on race car design was to “simplify, then add lightness.” Mazda’s engineers have remained more-or-less faithful to that idea over the years when it comes to the MX-5. Small cars don’t need a ton of power, and they’re a joy to drive. The 2020 MX-5 sports a 181-horsepower, 151 lb-ft four-cylinder engine paired to a six-speed manual (or a six-speed automatic with paddle shifters, but what you really want is the manual). My test unit this week — a luxury-focused MX-5 Grand Touring — came with a limited-slip differential, a sport-tuned suspension with Bilstein shocks, front- and rear-stabilizer bars, and, of course, rearwheel drive. It’s not necessary to understand what all that stuff does to enjoy the car, though it’s an impressive list of tech. There’s a running joke in car journalism that when someone asks which car they should buy, the answer is always “Miata” regardless of whether the buyer is a 70-year old retiree or a housewife with three kids. I don’t know if that’s strictly true, but the MX-5 will put a smile (and a sunburn) on your face regardless of who you are. My fully-loaded manual transmission Grand Touring RF test unit priced out at a a whopping $35,345, but included a wide array of lux features like automatic windshield wipers and high beams, leather everything inside the (tiny) cockpit, and a nine-speaker Bose stereo system that included speakers built-in to the headrests so you can hear your tunes even with the top down. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support is new for 2020,
though there’s no good place to put your phone. Or a cup of coffee. Or a handbag or really anything else except for two humans. It’s really tight in there. The cupholders are two bits of plastic that go behind your elbow on the center armrest, requiring a stretching maneuver that wouldn’t be out of place in a yoga studio to retrieve your beverage. There’s also a diminutive “glove box” behind the cupholders that’s good for holding a tube of sunscreen, your car registration, and very little else. The trunk isn’t spacious but it’ll swallow a rollaboard suitcase easily enough, and the RF’s hardtop doesn’t affect the trunk at all which is a big plus. The ride is firm but pleasant, with a far smoother and more refined ride than the similarly sized Toyota 86 that I reviewed a few weeks ago. This is the car for people who think comfort is a feature, and are willing to trade a bit of time in the slalom or g’s on the skid pad to not have their spine ruined. The six-speed manual transmission is a delight, reminding me why it’s fun to have a stick shift. Not many folks will use their MX-5 as a commuter car, so there are almost no downsides to the manual tranny. Gear changes are quick and easy, and the clutch is incredibly forgiving. Third gear is particularly wonderful, as is the rev-happy naturally aspirated Skyactiv-G engine that scores an EPA-estimated 26/34/29 city/ highway/combined. The exhaust isn’t noisy, but it make a nice burble, particularly with the top down. And I do have to call out that top. The RF — or Retractable Fastback — is the MX-5 to buy. Not only is it stupidly good looking, but you get the best of both worlds: When the top is down, you get 93 million miles of blue sky. But when you put it back up, you’re in a sports coupe that’s almost quiet and refined. The roof can open and close in just 13 seconds, though you do need to be stopped for it to operate. It looks especially good in Mazda’s Polymetal Gray paint scheme. I love convertibles. I love the MX-5. I love the RF. I love 93 million miles of blue sky. And if you go take one for a test drive, I promise you’ll love it too.
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features Entertainment venues across NC join forces to promote safe reopening By Elizabeth Lincicome North State Journal RALEIGH — As North Carolina’s coronavirus numbers continue to improve or remain flat, Gov. Roy Cooper recently said he plans to ease the occupancy restrictions for large outdoor entertainment sites starting Oct. 2nd. The new rules apply to places with outdoor seating capacities of at least 10,000 people, such as sports stadiums and arenas. These venues will be allowed to operate at a seven percent capacity, a severe reduction from previous numbers, which the governor says will still allow attendees to adhere to the recommended six feet of social distancing. The announcement is great news for outdoor sports and other large spectator events, but what does the new guidance mean for indoor entertainment venues such as theatres and concert halls? At this point, not much unfortunately since under the state’s current phase 2.5 regulations, indoor performing arts venues are still restricted to no more than 25 people indoors and 50 outdoors. This includes concerts, Broadway shows, comedy shows, conventions, trade and consumer shows, and largescale meetings. Yet a new statewide group called the NC Live Coalition is paving the way for when these venues are given the green light to reopen, making sure they do so in the safest and most effective way possible. The NC Live Coalition represents 25 major venues across the state in an effort to create and promote procedures and best practices that will make it safe for staff, artists, and fans to attend live events as soon as they are allowed to resume. The safety plans, which include cashless transactions, venue disinfection, staggered arrival times for entering, routine temperature checks, limiting touch points all over in all areas, and the
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NCDHHS secretary Mandy Cohen briefs media at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh. creation of safe back-of-the house or backstage environments will be posted on each member organization’s website. “By re-opening our facilities, we will do our part in not only re-opening North Carolina’s economy, but more importantly, providing the human interaction and common experiences we crave,” said an NC Live Coalition spokesperson. Taken collectively, members of NC Live hosted thousands of events for millions of North Carolinians across the state last year alone. Coalition members include: Asheville’s Harrah’s Cherokee Center, ExploreAsheville.com Arena, and the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Charlotte’s Blumenthal Performing Arts, Bojangles’ Entertainment Complex, the Charlotte Convention Center, the Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre, Fillmore Charlotte, PNC Music Pavilion, and the Spectrum Center; Durham’s Carolina The-
“By re-opening our facilities, we will do our part in not only re-opening North Carolina’s economy, but more importantly, providing the human interaction and common experiences we crave.” NC Live Coalition atre, the Durham Convention Center, and the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC); Fayetteville’s Crown Complex; the Greensboro Coliseum and its Piedmont Hall, the new Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts; Raleigh’s Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, the Duke
Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, the PNC Arena, the Raleigh Convention Center, Red Hat Amphitheater, and The Ritz; and Winston-Salem’s Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, among others. DPAC, like the rest, remains closed to the public but sent out a recent “DPAC Looks Forward” email to season ticket holders promoting their involvement with the NC Live Coalition. “We’re continuing to plan for and add new events for when we reopen, but until then here are ways to connect and keep DPAC close…we are proud to take part in the NC Live Coalition that is helping bring live entertainment back across North Carolina.” A steering committee of advisors is helping craft many of the coalition’s policies. These advisors are some of the industry’s top professionals in the areas they represent. Additionally, NC Live consists
of a wide array of State and municipally owned institutions, universities, professional sports teams, and arts organizations. “NC Live was formed to provide the state with public assembly industry input, to provide recommendations to safely reopen the State’s public assembly facilities due to the challenges generated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” a spokesperson says. “It is our objective to identify the industry’s best practices, so North Carolina’s facilities can properly implement and reopen safely and responsibly at 100% capacity. Our intent is to make these recommendations clear, concise, scalable, and sustainable.” The coalition’s best practices plan pulls from guidelines provided by the Federal, State, and local government, the CDC, Public Health organizations, and related Sports and Casino Commissions. The entertainment, sports, and facility management industries also offered input. Heather Strickland, Executive Director of the Raleigh Little Theater, which is not one of the groups involved with NC Live, says she is thrilled to see a group like this put forward best practices and guidelines that the entire arts community can reference and incorporate into their day to day operations moving forward. “For us, the question isn’t if we’ll be allowed to reopen but rather when so when that time comes, it’s great to see everyone making an effort to adopt safe, clean protocols in the long term even when the pandemic is over.” The Raleigh Little Theater as well as the Theater in the Park are two smaller local venues that also remain closed to the public. Strickland says the Raleigh Little Theater will resume production when they are able to turn a profit from ticket sales and draw a decent sized audience. They might host a children’s show in November at their outdoor amphitheater and limit the audience to around 50 guests. Theater in the Park will resume normal in person shows in February 2021 assuming things go smoothly across the state. “We’re taking our cues from other theaters,” says Brent Simpson, Managing Director. “We’re all in this together and we know we’ll get through it.”
James Patterson awards $500 grants to thousands of teachers The Associated Press
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Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at the annual Endeavour Fund Awards in London on March 5, 2020.
NEW YORK — Thousands of schoolteachers will receive $500 grants from author James Patterson to help students build reading skills, especially as schools struggle to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic. “Whether students are learning virtually at home or in the classroom, the importance of keeping them reading cannot be underscored enough,” Patterson said in a statement Tuesday. “Reading teaches kids empathy, gives them an escape when they most need it, helps them grapple with harsh realities, and perhaps most importantly, will remind them that they are not alone — even if they’re unable
to see their teachers, classmates and friends in-person,” he said. The grant program is administered by Patterson and by Scholastic Book Clubs, which will provide teachers 500 club points to go with the $500 from Patterson. Out of more than 100,000 applicants, 5,000 teachers will receive grants and club points. Tuesday’s announcement marks the sixth installment in the Patterson Partnership for building home and school libraries. Patterson, one of the world’s best-selling novelists, has given more than $11 million to teachers, along with millions he has given to bookstores, libraries and literacy organizations.
Judge says new royal book can be used in Meghan privacy case The Associated Press LONDON — The publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper can use the contents of a recent behind-the scenes book about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in its legal defense for an invasion of privacy lawsuit brought by the duchess, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Francesca Kaye gave Associated Newspapers Ltd. permission to amend its defense to add “further particulars” relating to the book published last month, “Finding Freedom.” The former Meghan Markle, 39, is suing the publisher over five February 2019 articles in the Mail on Sunday and on the MailOnline
website that published portions of a handwritten letter she wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, after her marriage to Harry in 2018. Associated Newspapers is contesting the claim. Its lawyers argue that Meghan made personal information public by cooperating with the authors of the book “in order to set out her own version of events in a way that is favorable to her.” Antony White, a lawyer for Associated Newspapers, said in written court submissions that the book appeared to have been written with Meghan and Harry’s “extensive cooperation.” Meghan’s lawyers deny that she collaborated with the book’s au-
thors, Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie. American actress Meghan Markle, star of TV legal drama “Suits,” married Harry, one of the grandsons of Queen Elizabeth II, in a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle in May 2018. Their son, Archie, was born the following year. Early this year, the couple announced they were quitting royal duties and moving to North America, citing what they said was the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media. They recently bought a house in Santa Barbara, California. A full hearing in her lawsuit against Associated Newspapers is due to start in January.
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Author James Patterson poses for a portrait in New York on Aug. 30, 2016. Thousands of schoolteachers will receive $500 grants from Patterson.
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New this week: Mariah Carey, Gloria Steinem & ‘South Park’ The Associated Press HERE’S A COLLECTION curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Movies — “The Glorias “: Julie Taymor’s film, based on Gloria Steinem’s 2015 book “My Life on the Road,” is a biopic with verve and flair. The legendary feminist leader is played by four different actresses (Julianna Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kira Armstrong) across four stages of her life. Sometimes they meet each other. But the multitudes of Steinems aren’t just a deconstructionist trick. The feminism embodied by Steinem is an expression of women everywhere, Taymor suggests. Traversing America in time and place, “The Glorias” finds her everywhere. Debuting Wednesday on Amazon Prime. — “Dick Johnson Is Dead”: Kristen Johnson was a veteran documentary cinematographer when she made one of 2016’s very
best films, “Cameraperson,” a collage of footage captured over her 25-year career that dug into the relationship between subject and filmmaker. Johnson’s latest, premiering Friday on Netflix, is a playful eulogy to her father as she slowly loses him to dementia. That may sound dark, and it is. But “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” made with love and gallows humor, is as much about life as it is death. — “The Boys in the Band”: Mart Crowley’s 1968 play has an important place in the history of American theater. One of the first productions to put the lives of gay men front and center, it sparked a sensation by dramatizing the joy and pain of its out-of-the-closet characters over one night in New York, during a party with an uninvited guest. This film, debuting Wednesday on Netflix, is adapted from the starry 2018 Broadway revival, with Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells. (There was also a 1970 movie adaptation by William Friedkin.) As an artifact from a pre-Stonewall past, it takes on an elegiac aura of tribute, with its very successful cast members hon-
oring an earlier, less liberated generation. Music — Mariah Carey has pulled from her rich vault to compile a new album called “The Rarities.” Made up of songs recorded from 1990 — the year she dropped her multi-hit self-titled debut album — and 2020, the album features previously unreleased songs and rare B-sides, some even from recording sessions for her top-selling albums like “Emotions,” “Music Box” and “Day Dream.” The release of “The Rarities” is tied to “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” the pop icon’s memoir coming out Tuesday. — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK have cracked the Top 40 with “How You Like That” and the Selena Gomez-assisted “Ice Cream,” two tracks from their new album coming out Friday. “The Album,” which also includes a collaboration with Cardi B, features eight songs that fuses trap, pop and dance sounds. The group, made up of JISOO, JENNIE, LISA, and ROSÉ, came on the
music scene in 2016 and have collaborated with Dua Lipa and appears on Lady Gaga’s latest album, “Chromatica.” — Queen and Adam Lambert have performed more than 200 shows together, and now they are releasing their first live album. They idea came after the rockers had to cancel their tour because of the coronavirus pandemic and wanted to find a way to please their die-hard fans. “Queen + Adam Live Around the World” will be released Friday and the 20-track set includes concert highlights from around the world personally selected by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Lambert. Television — If laughter is good medicine, then it’s “South Park” to the rescue. The animated series from Trey Parker and Matt Stone takes on the coronavirus with an hourlong episode, “The Pandemic Special,” debuting 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday on Comedy Central (repeated at 9 and 10 p.m. EDT). The kids return to school to find the anxiety-inducing new nor-
mal evidenced in their teachers and socially distanced classroom. Meanwhile, Randy deals with his alleged role in the viral outbreak that has the town of South Park on defense. We’re on edge: the new season start date has yet to be announced. — How about a trip to Paris with Lily Collins for company and Darren Star (“Sex and the City”) as tour guide? “Emily in Paris,” a 10-episode romantic comedy debuting Friday on Netflix, stars Collins as a marketing executive who’s transferred to the City of Lights to revamp a newly acquired company’s social media strategy. Emily, of course, is not all work, with “intoxicating adventures” and romances — plural! — promised, along with envy-inducing fashion. Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy Beaulieu and Lucas Bravo co-star. — Influential women have made it to the White House, if not yet the Oval Office. The CNN series “First Ladies” examines the tenure of six presidential spouses: Michelle Obama, Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson and Hillary Clinton. Interviews, archival footage and re-creations of events combine for what CNN calls a “bold revision” of how the women have been portrayed and what they contributed. The six-part series begins 10 p.m. EDT Sunday with an extended episode on Michelle Obama, with subsequent episodes airing on consecutive Sundays.
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This image released by LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions shows Lorraine Toussaint as Flo Kennedy, left, and Julianne Moore as Gloria Steinem in a scene from “The Glorias.”
Survey: In Hollywood, few believe harassers will be punished By Jocelyn Noveck The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein may well spend the rest of his life in prison. But that doesn’t mean workers in Hollywood have faith that other harassers and abusers will be similarly punished. Instead, three years after the explosive Weinstein scandal launched the #MeToo movement, a survey by the Hollywood Commission, chaired by Anita Hill, finds a strong belief in the industry that sexual harassers will not be held to account. “Things have improved, but not nearly enough,” Hill said in an interview ahead of the survey’s Tuesday release. “People don’t believe their complaints will be taken seriously, they don’t believe that something will happen to people who are found to be harassers. And they DO believe there will be retaliation — whether you’re a victim or a bystander, there’s a belief you will be retaliated against if you complain.” In other words, as one of the nearly 10,000 respondents to the survey told the commission: “Just because a few famous offenders are being held accountable when reported by the most famous victims, does not mean anything has changed for the rest of us.” The Hollywood Commission
was formed in late 2017, shortly after the allegations against Weinstein rocked the industry and forced a broader societal reckoning against sexual misconduct in the workplace. Hill, a prominent voice against sexual harassment ever since her 1991 accusations against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, was named its chair. The commission says 9,360 people — women and men, in all levels of entertainment industry jobs — responded to the survey, which was conducted online and anonymously over a three-month period ending in February. This first of five reports focuses on perceptions of accountability, which the commission found especially startling. It also announces a new reporting platform for victims, currently in development. In findings that Hill called “shocking but not surprising,” given the thousands of anecdotes the commission received, 65% of respondents said they didn’t believe someone in power, for example a producer or director, would be held accountable for harassing someone with less authority. And there was a gender gap: While 45% of men believed that person would be held accountable, only 28% of women did. Traditionally underrepresented groups had less confidence; among biracial women, for example, the num-
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Anita Hill arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 9, 2020. ber was 23%, Hill noted. Hill said the news wasn’t all negative — she was buoyed by the fact that workers were very clear about what they needed: better reporting options, independent hotlines, and better guidance on how to navigate reporting systems, among other things. The commission, founded by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and lawyer Nina Shaw, is now testing technology for a reporting platform to launch early next year, specifically aimed at detecting repeat offenders and tailored for the entertainment industry. It is also piloting bystander intervention training. “We had to step in and do some-
thing,” Hill said of the new initiatives. “We had an obligation to respond.” Hill, a longtime professor of social policy and gender studies at Brandeis University, has studied sexual harassment in society at large, but said there are factors unique to the entertainment industry that make it particularly hard to combat. For one thing, it’s a highly transient work force. “People are moving around from system to system” or production to production, she said. “There’s no umbrella system. There are very limited structures for reporting ... and there are no structures for sharing information.”
Also, she noted, the system is naturally very hierarchical, with huge personalities wielding outsize power, much like Weinstein did. “Everything is based on who you know, and who can vouch for you,” Hill said. “If you’ve got a powerful person that you’ve worked with and ... they spread rumors or denigrate your work, it can have a powerful effect, and people know that.” “So there are so many layers of power abuse,” she said. “You can fire somebody, you can influence their ability to get another job, or you can just destroy their reputation.” On top of that, in a creative industry like Hollywood, “the powerful people are the tastemakers, if you will,” she said. Do the results mean the Weinstein case, in which the now 68-year-old mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes, has had no perceived trickle-down effect? Not exactly, Hill said. “Personally I believe that whenever somebody is held accountable, people respond. The number of people willing to trust the system increases.” That’s why, she said, it’s so important for people to have effective reporting systems at their disposal. Hill said she was also struck by the fact that the respondents “really believe in this industry. They work in entertainment because they believe it’s influential, that it can be a mirror to the world, that it can reflect the greater values of the world, that it can be an influencer,” she said. “They felt very passionate about wanting to be in this industry. But they also understood that there are problems, and they want to be part of helping to solve them.”
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the following real estate situated in Kannapolis in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Parcel ID#04065A0117.000000
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 145
All that certain parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Cabarrus, State of NC, to-wit:
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jackie R. Martin, Joseph C. Martin, Heirs of Jackie R. Martin: Pamela M. Lipe, Tony Martin (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Jackie R. Martin and Joseph C. Martin) to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated October 3, 2008, and recorded in Book No. 8452, at Page 241 in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 12, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash
CUMBERLAND IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20sp634 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY VIOLA LEE SMITH CONERLY DATED JANUARY 15, 2001 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5390 AT PAGE 525 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20SP518 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ALEXANDER WALKER AND HANNELORE H. WALKER DATED OCTOBER 31, 2001 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 5595 AT PAGE 616 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 12 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Marguerite Burkholder, Heirs of Marguerite Burkholder: Christopher K Burkholder a/k/a Christian K. Burkholder, Cammeron J. Burkholder Solomon, Michael G Sakellarios, John Scott Sakellarios, Morgan E Burkholder a/k/a Morgan E McLaren (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Marguerite Burkholder) to Resource Title, LLC, Trustee(s), dated September 10, 2004, and recorded in Book No. 6660, at Page 617 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina,
20 SP 403 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Marie Michel and Dominique Michel to, Trustee(s), which was dated July 19, 2005 and recorded on July 21, 2005 in Book 6949 at Page 700, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on October 14, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 616 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Princess Amber, LLC, a North Carolina Limited Liability Company (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Princess Amber, LLC, a North Carolina Limited Liability Company) to Investors Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated March 15, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 10269, at Page 0539 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 614 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jody V. Fraser, Vanessa Fraser, Heirs of Jody V. Fraser: Zachary Thomas Fraser, Ian Nathanial Fraser (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Jody V. Fraser and Vanessa Fraser) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated March 31, 2010, and recorded in Book No. 08365, at Page 0693 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the
Being all of Unit No. 66-6 of the Carriage House Condominium, as shown on a plat entitled “Carriage House Condominiums” which said plat was prepared by Billy B. Long, Registered Surveyor, and detailed drawings prepared by Cynthia L. Bostick, Architect, Kannapolis, North Carolina, are on file in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County in Condominium Book at003-1 through 003-8 and as set forth in Declaration of Unit Ownership as recorded in the Office of Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County in Deed Book 508 at Page 467, together with a 1.4760% interest in the Common Areas and Facilities as set forth in said Declaration. Including the Unit located thereon; said unit being located at 122 Briarcliff Drive, Kannapolis, North Carolina. Grantees, by acceptance of this Deed, and by agreement with the Grantors, hereby expressly assume and agree to be bound by and to comply with the Covenants, Terms, Provisions, and Conditions as set forth in the Declaration and the By-Laws, including but not limited to the obligations
in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on October 5, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Viola Lee Smith Conerly, dated January 15, 2001 to secure the original principal amount of $65,425.00, and recorded in Book 5390 at Page 525 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended. Address of property: Brownsboro Pl, Hope Mills, NC 28348 Tax Parcel ID:
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secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on October 5, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Alexander Walker and Hannelore H. Walker, dated October 31, 2001 to secure the original principal amount of $49,532.00, and recorded in Book 5595 at Page 616 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended. Address of property: Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28306 Tax Parcel ID: 5993 Present Record Owners: Alexander Walker
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or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 5, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The following described property in the City of Fayetteville, County of Cumberland, State of North Carolina:Being all of Lot 12 of the Property of Barbara M. Johnson as shown on a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 65, Page 113, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 7041 Rockfish Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina. The improvements thereon being commonly known as 7041 Rockfish Road, Fayetteville, NC, 28306.Being the same lot or parcel of ground which by deed dated May 20, 2002 and recorded among the land records of Cumberland County in Book 5757, Page 258, was granted and conveyed by Marguerite Burkholder, unto Marguerite Burkholder, an unmarried woman. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court
property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 38, BLOCK Q, LAFAYETTE VILLAGE, SECTION 6, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 19, PAGE 72, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN A TRUSTEES DEED, DATED MAY 18, 1983, FROM CHARLES G. ROSE JR., SUBSTITUTE TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS, CUMBERLAND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA IN BOOK 2923, PAGE 651.
to make payment of assessments for the maintenance and operation of the Condominium project which may be levied against such Unit. The Declaration also provides that the Condominium Unit shall be used for residential purposes only. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and
9867 Present Record Owners: Smith Conerly
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And Being more commonly known as: 810 Brownsboro Pl, Hope Mills, NC 28348 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Viola Lee Smith Conerly. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to
And Being more commonly known as: 173 Linwood Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28306 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Alexander Walker. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent
State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days
all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.
but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 2106 - 4552
the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is September 14, 2020. Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-078594
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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate
(5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.
contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is September 14, 2020. Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-110180
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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date
costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for
any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not
cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.
against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1282583 - 9880
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587
Said property is commonly known as 5128 Utile Road, Fayetteville, NC 28304.
Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Marie Michel.
A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars
An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and
If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole
foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 5, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot Number 411 in a subdivision known as AMENDED MAP OF CLIFFDALE WEST, SECTION EIGHT, and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 72, Page 49, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6857 Baystone Road Fayetteville, North Carolina.
the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior
to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice
of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.
If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be
effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.
APN: 9487-09-9974 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor
customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 5, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Hope Mills in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 9 in a subdivision known as FAIRWAY FOREST, SECTION 8, PHASE 3, and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 100, Page 88, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5419 Ahoskie Drive, Hope Mills, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on July 5, 2011, in Book No. 08674, at Page 0674. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars
File No.: 19-06661-FC02
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 3453 - 8930
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 3562 - 9924
North State Journal for Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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TAKE NOTICE
JOHNSTON IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 20sp186 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY CAROLINE C. MORRIS DATED MAY 21, 2004 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2696 AT PAGE 722 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED NOVEMBER 27, 2018 IN BOOK 5255, PAGE 248 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 237 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Algernon Parker (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Algernon Parker) to CTC Real Estate Services, Trustee(s), dated September 20, 2000, and recorded in Book No. 1972, at Page 647 and re-recorded in Book No. 3878, at Page 404 in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on October 6, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Clayton in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the northern right of way line of Hickory Drive, said point being a common corner between Lot #106 and Lot #107, said beginning point is located
ONSLOW NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 41 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rebecca Lyn Clausing (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Rebecca Lyn Clausing) to Gordon E. Robinson, Jr., Trustee(s), dated October 17, 2003, and recorded in Book No. 2132, at Page 819 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Onslow County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 332 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Donald Allen, Beatriz Allen (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Donald Allen and Beatriz Allen) to WFG National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated September 24, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 4522, at Page 57 in Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Onslow County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on October 15, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated
RANDOLPH 19 SP 293 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Stephen Scott Oxford and Karen Smith Oxford to L. Buchanan, Trustee(s), which was dated February 14, 2002 and recorded on February 18, 2002 in Book 1752 at Page 143, Randolph County Registry, North Carolina.
perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on October 6, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Caroline C. Morris, dated May 21, 2004 to secure the original principal amount of $128,155.00, and recorded in Book 2696 at Page 722 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended. Address of property: Rd, Clayton, NC 27520 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: Caroline C. Morris
2600
Jack
05G04052E The Heirs of
And Being more commonly known as: 2600 Jack Rd,
588.87 feet from a point where the northern right of way line of Hickory Drive intersects the western right of way line of N.C.S.R. #1501; thence from the above-described beginning point, the line runs as the northern right of way line of Hickory Drive, North 28 degrees 50’ 46” West 120 feet to a point, a common corner between Lot #106 and Lot #105; thence the line runs as the line between Lot #105 and Lot #106, North 66 degrees 43’ East 200 feet; thence the line runs as the line between Lot #106 and Lot #96, South 25 degrees 29’ East 119.9 feet; thence the line runs as the line between Lot #106 and Lot #107, South 63 degrees 51’ 30” West 192.83 feet to the BEGINNING, and being all of Lot #106 of the Whitley Heights subdivision (not recorded); according to a survey of the property of Algernon Parker by Vernon Wayne Johnson dated September 15, 2000, and containing 0.52 acre, more or less. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 120 Hickory Drive, Clayton, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and
designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on October 1, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Richlands in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 1, as shown on that plat entitled, “Gregory Fork Acres, Section I”, as recorded in Map Book 40, Page 35, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 284 Gregory Fork Road, Richlands, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or
in Richlands in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the Richlands Township, Onslow County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 36, Rolling Meadows Subdivision, Section 2, as shown on map entitled, final plat Rolling Meadows Subdivision, Section 2, dated June 25, 2007 and recorded in Map Book 53, Page 189, Slide 63, of the Onslow County Register of Deeds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 204 High Meadow Court, Richlands, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security
property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on October 13, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1349, PAGE 1761, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS BEING ALL OF LOTS 33, 34, 35, AND LOT 36, BEING ENGLEWOOD FOREST, MAP NO. 2, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 11, PAGE 39. BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM PEARLIE P. SAMSON, WIDOW, AS SET FORTH IN BOOK 1349, PAGE 1761, DATED 02/17/1993 AND RECORDED 02/19/1993, RANDOLPH COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Defaulthavingbeenmadeofthenotetherebysecuredbythe said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the
Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 53
said beginning point along Chrisco, North 20 degrees 24 minutes 25 seconds East 204.02 feet to a tall existing iron pipe; thence along Redding Land Co.: South 52 degree 23 minutes 39 second East 117.83 feet to a tall existing iron pipe and South 21 degrees 17 minute 16 seconds West 212.98 feet to the Northern right of way line of Southway Road; thence along said right of way line, North 47 degrees 45 minutes 48 seconds West 117.73 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 0.532 acre and being the same property described in Book 1402, Page 162, Randolph County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 232 Southway Road, Asheboro, North Carolina.
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Daniel V. Wood, Heirs of Daniel V. Wood: Teresa Ann Wood, Marie Elena Wood, Kevin P. Wood, Michael T. Wood, Lisa Wood; Heirs of Marie Elena Wood: Brandon Michael Carrick, Hollie Latham (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Daniel V. Wood) to Richard L. Cox, Trustee(s), dated June 21, 2010, and recorded in Book No. RE 2187, at Page 233 in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on October 13, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Asheboro in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an existing iron rod in the Northern right of way line of Southway Road (NCSR No. 1456), formerly described as Old Salisbury Road, the Southeast corner of Rossie J. and Jimmy Chrisco as described in Book 872, Page 402, Randolph County Registry; thence from
UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY 20 SP 228 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by William John Konopa and Cheryl Ann Konopa, in the original amount of $50,000.00, payable to PNC Bank, National Association, dated May 5, 2006 and recorded on May 22, 2006 in Book 04167, Page 0870, Union County Registry. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Union County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on October 8, 2020, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described
Said property is commonly known as 5510 Driftwood Drive, Archdale, NC 27263. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%)
This description is in accord with a survey entitled “Edward J. Griest & Colleen S. Griest” dated February 20, 1998, and prepared by Jerry King Surveying, Inc. SAVE AND EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING TRACT: BEGINNING at an existing iron rod in the northern right of way line of Southway Road (NCSR No. 1456), the Southeast corner of the Edward J. Griest and wife, Colleen S. Griest property described in Book 1544, Page 228, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point along the Western line of Griest as described in Book 1544, Page 228, Randolph County Registry, North 21 degrees 17 minutes 16 seconds East 212.98 feet to a tall iron pipe; thence along a new line within the Griest tract, South 23 degrees 07 minutes 32 seconds West 209.99 feet to a new iron rod in existing hole in the Northern right of way of Southway Road; thence along said right of way line South 44 degrees 00 minutes 04 second East 7.40 feet to the
property, to wit: Beginning at a point in the G.N. Hamilton property line (Deed Book 96, Page 611) said point being located South 37 degrees West 200 feet from an old nail in said line and in the center of James Hamilton Road, a common corner of said Hamilton Property with the helms property from which this lot is carved and runs thence from said beginning point three new lines, South 53 degrees East 215 feet, South 37 degrees West 200 feet, North 53 degrees West 215 feet to a point in said Hamilton line; thence with said Hamilton line North 37 degrees East 200 feet to the place and point of beginning, and containing 0.987 acres, more or less, according to survey by Sidney M Sandy, NCRLS, August 4, 1986. Together with an easement for ingress, egress and regress, being 15 feet in width, the Western boundary line thereof being the Eastern boundary of G N Hamilton property referred to above, and being at all points 15 feet in width and beginning at the Northernmost corner of the 0.987 acre tract described above, the beginning point thereof and runs thence with said Hamilton Line North 37 degrees East 200 feet to a point in the center of the James Hamilton Road. Which is in the County of Union and in the State of North Carolina. Together with improvements located hereon; said property
Clayton, NC 27520 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Caroline C. Morris. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory
upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.
Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells
any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real
Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of
the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.
Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
BEGINNING, containing 0.016 acres. This description is in accord with a survey entitled “Survey for Edward J. Griest & Colleen S. Griest”, prepared by Jerry King Surveying, Inc., dated February 20, 1998, revised April 29, 1998 and designated as Job No. 1450. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),
being located at 2718 James Hamilton Road, Monroe, NC 28110. Tax ID: 09339163c Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) with a maximum amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property are William John Konopa and Cheryl Ann Konopa. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General
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request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.
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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may
Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Stephen Scott Oxford.
Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109927
4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 3417 - 8821
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 2963 - 7161
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-12791-FC01
If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1789 - 3676
Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
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Pumpkins are on display at Thomas Family Farm in Richfield.
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Thomas Family Farm in Richfield open for pumpkin picking in October By David Larson Stanly County Journal
Mecklenburg County A police officer has been suspended for his handling of a traffic stop last year in which officers drew their weapons, broke car windows and that resulted in the driver of the vehicle suffering a broken elbow. A review board in April determined that the arresting officer’s actions were consistent with department training and policy, but that his management of the encounter violated department policy. The unidentified officer received an 80-hour unpaid suspension, is ineligible for promotion for a period of two years and has been reassigned from his specialty unit.
RICHFIELD — Most activities families count on for outdoor fall fun have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdown regulations. But Thomas Family Farms in Richfield, a family-owned farm that raises beef, pork and other agricultural products, is open and welcoming customers to drop by for some pumpkins, games and treats. After a Sept. 13 social media post announcing they would indeed be open for the month of October, as they usually are, the farm received a lot of positive responses. So the Thomas family followed that post up with another, which said in part, “We have had so many phone calls and people ask-
ing about pumpkins & the pumpkin patch that we have decided to get to work at the last minute and put some things together around the farm for your family while you’re here picking up your pumpkins. Paintball guns, swings, see saw, picnic tables will be available & seating around the barn, games, drinks, hot cider. Oh and several places to take family pictures.” Michelle Thomas of Thomas Family Farms told SCJ that their hours would be shorter than most years. With the week-day school trips canceled, the farm will only be open on weekends during October. They will open on Oct. 2 and remain open until the end of the month. Friday and Saturday hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday hours from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. “We’re doing it a little differently this year because of COVID,”
We’re doing it a little differently this year because of COVID… This year we’ll just have to have our games spread out further to keep people spaced out, and our picnic tables will be spaced out.” Michelle Thomas, Thomas Family Farm Thomas said. “This year we’ll just have to have our games spread out further to keep people spaced out, and our picnic tables will be spaced out.” Pumpkins, mums, hay bales,
pasture-raised pork, and pastured raised eggs will be sold on site. Visitors can pick their own pumpkin inside the barn or out in the field. “We are going to have pumpkins out in the patch, and we’re just going to have to space people out to go,” she said. “The pumpkins are already picked off the vine, but they are sitting in the field.” In usual years, they have many games and rides for children, and this year, they will still have those available, with some exceptions. Hay rides and cattle car rides are not going to be offered after consulting with the Stanly Health Department, which doesn’t permit rides at the moment. All the games that families are used to though, other than the popular “corn pit,” will still be offered. Thomas Family Farm is in Richfield at 44161 Millingport Road.
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Stanly Board of Elections prepared for election, director says By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — Despite a shortage of poll workers throughout the country, Stanly County’s voting precincts are fully staffed and ready for Nov. 3. “We do have enough workers and we actually have a few standby workers and emergency workers for last-minute vacancies,” Stanly County Board of Elections Director Kim Blackwelder told SCJ on Sept. 22. “We’re in good shape right now, but if people are interested in working, they can always apply and we will put them on our list. We can put them through if people back out or can’t make it at the last minute.” Due to fears of contracting COVID-19 at polling precincts, concerned voters have turned to mail-in ballots more than ever before, and Stanly County is no ex-
“As of today, we’ve sent 3,175 ballots. In the last presidential election, we mailed out between 900 and 1,000 ballots.” Stanly BOE Director Kim Blackwelder
ception. The Stanly County Board of Elections has continued to stay busy handling absentee-by-mail ballots during this election cycle. In fact, the board has mailed out three-times more ballots than it mailed in 2016. “As of today, we’ve sent 3,175 ballots,” Blackwelder said. “In
the last presidential election, we mailed out between 900 and 1,000 ballots.” In North Carolina, the deadline for voter registration is Oct. 9, and the deadline for requesting a ballot by mail is Oct. 27. Absentee ballots delivered to the Board of Elections must be received by 5 p.m. on Election Day; the ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day if they are sent by mail. Registered voters can request a ballot by going online and accessing the Absentee Ballot Request Portal. The second option for voters is to fill out a North Carolina Absentee Ballot Request Form and return it to the Stanly County Board of Elections at 1000 North First St. Suite 16 in Albemarle. Once completed ballots are sent in, their status can be tracked with the N.C. Board of Election’s new BallotTrax online portal.
For voters who still want to vote in-person, the Stanly election board is promising to do all it can to provide safety precautions on Nov. 3. Both hand sanitizer and masks will be provided to any and all voters who want them before entering the voting booths. “We’ll have the plexiglass shields up in front of the different stations where the voter interacts with the precinct official,” Blackwelder said. “Everything will be distanced and we have plastic file folders for the secrecy folders for the ballots that will be cleaned in between each voter. We’re doing different things to ensure that everybody stays safe.” Early voting for Stanly County will take place at four different polling sites: the Locust Town Center, Joel Honeycutt Room at 186 Ray Kennedy Dr.; the New London Community Building, at 114 West Gold St.; the Norwood Community Building, at 247 West Turner St.; and the Stanly County Board of Elections office. The available hours for early voting are 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 15 to Oct. 17, Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, and Oct. 26 to Oct. 30. For the final day of early voting, Oct. 31, available hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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DEATH NOTICES ♦ Paul Eugene Walters, 82, of Norwood, passed away September 24. ♦ Charles Wayne Ridenhour, 68, of Richfield, passed away September 24. ♦ Myra Gay Crowell Ledbetter, 63, passed away September 26. ♦ Virginia Britt Porter, 88, of Norwood, passed away September 26.
Harloe Hicks HARLOE OMRY “H.O.” Hicks, Jr. of Albemarle passed away September 22, 2020. Mr. Hicks was born September 10, 1927 in Badin, NC to the late Harloe Omry Hicks, Sr. and the late Charlotte Greenlee Hicks. He was preceded in death by his three brothers; Joe, Carl and Jim Hicks. Survivors include his wife of 71 years, Barbara Rose Hicks of Albemarle, NC, a daughter, Anne Hicks West of Badin, NC, three sons, Steve Hicks and wife Jolie of Scottsdale, AZ, Don Hicks and wife Kim of Hilliard, OH, Jeff Hicks of Palmerville, NC, six grandchildren, Justin Hicks of Phoenix, AZ, Stephanie Hicks Mitrovic and husband Aleksandar of Scottsdale, AZ, Lauren Hicks Gulliford and husband T.J. of Freeland, MI, Joshua Hicks and wife Jessica of St. Louis, MO, Daniel Hicks of Charlotte, NC, Tricia Hicks of Kanapolis, NC. two great grandchildren Natalija and Nadia Mitrovic of Scottsdale, AZ. See OBITUARIES, page 7
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“THIS IS THEfallen DAYinto the lord has made, let usthe rejoice and be of glad Inc. in Concord and New WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home place. I understand seriousness the virus Hydromer and the need in it” (Psalm 118:24). Salisbury are orders thanks to local or state governments, a majority of Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask switching their operation I know that during this challenging time of social distancing, Inback Fayetteville, a minister began a p are having to adjust to what is being called the “new normal.” questions about the data, and when things can start getting to working from home or losing a job, it may be difficult to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland Count Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. However, as a Christian, husband These stories from throughout our r Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept without and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and supplies to peopl Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during question what the government tells us about when it’s safe to begin the have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the corona a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy. Lenten and pandemic. While people throughout our commu No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those when did state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Easter seasons If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the ioning making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting se justification for it. And the answers should notabe vague ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such as Michigan, provide nment Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people o must do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about message of affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and work levels It will need to be explained in detailhope to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand that we will affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense an are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. me a once again enjoy God.” we can defeat the coronavirus and keep amount of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they hing? sporting events, If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. are reliable. can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer is what reflect and be comforted, that we may live out Until then, the Lenten and Easter se concerts, family To date, I’ve gone along with what the state has asked and thenon this message with details that give theirso statements believability. God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy spo itizens COLUMN mandated| that weSHAPIRO do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, gatherings, BEN this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services and many the data. State Republican leaders have, too. services ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should also still continue church in a free confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary Unfortunately, when certain types ofand questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home sacrifices for the greate many more ty were COLUMN | BEN SHAPIRO In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired they by stories humanity are over. sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, shouldofalso have an expiration date. after our own osed neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating Easter, a simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, temporary In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all continu last I to normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people who shape, or form. So while we should remain vigilant and stay safe, at money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face shields for necessary safety guidelines and remain sacrifices are don’t care if they get themselves or others sick. in which China lied the about same time we shouldn’t ked. AIN; after thisotherwise COVID-19 virus dissipates The cavalier manner the origin of the get comfortable with this so-called “new health care workers out of his own home. through this together. did questioning government at all levels a bad over. he United States,Since Chinawhen will pay for Stanly this County virus, covered up itsbecome spread and tried to normal.” tell the world there were only Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 thing? That is what free citizens living in a free society were supposed Not one little bit.collapse and r Wednesday, April 15, 2020 nother. 3,341 related deaths has led to worldwide panic, economic THIS WEEK, according to members of the federal government, would mean that the fatality rate is actually far lower than to do, last I checked. s caused by China in perspective, zeroWEEK, Supreme millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out That of That work. LAST Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Matthews meant fortransmission the political left, institutions of and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten suggested, eventhat if the rate all is high. My first concern as we go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m Stacey has written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah n trace their source to the United States over Theimmediately crisis has cost the U.S.ataxpayer at least $2.4 government trillion in also added at the age of 87. Her death initiated political firestorm had to be converted into instruments of power or curve in novel coronavirus outbreak. TheAfter excitement and was is a regular Secondly, what to are we expecting in terms of a second wave? aboutthe them catching virus, and I’m worried I will. contributor RedState and Legal Insurrection. ast four in the worried 20th century alone can bethe the debt plus trillions more invery Federal Reserve backup liquidity to The the in Washington, D.C. — one that threatens the integrity of the destroyed. left has done just that with the Supreme Court — after all, trends can easilythe reverse — but real. Americans The model simply cuts off in early August. It does notfor suffering frommuted the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during 2009outlets. pandemic, 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977 markets and financial If the U.S. dollar were notinstitute’s the reserve republic. generations, viewing it as will a repository for transformational change have abided by andallorders. They’veup left their jobs how many people die in a second wave. This is the I’ve been to take extra precautions, because ofnot this 2 SARS outbreak. Theretrying is evidence that therecommendations currency, we would bebrings ablewould to fund any of thesepredict emergency That’s not because, as the media and Democrats claim, rather than a legal body with a mandate to only interpret honestly tomemories stay at home; they’veexperience practiced social distancing; in many places, mostand important problem because experts maintain that the virus is way too of a painful I’d prefer not to repeat. ” pandemic also had itsmany origins in China. measures without immediate fear of rampant inflation currency some sort of institutional normeasily has been violated by a Republican the words of themeans law. With thatlikely view to of see the more court serious threatened by a they’ve donned masks. seasonal, which we are spreading But what also makes me lose sleep is how most everyone has nt, outside China, that COVID-19 depreciation. Weof need president selecting a replacement for Ginsburg to be voted on by Republican-appointed majority, Democrats are now panicking. The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. in the through fall. And that means we will be faced with either renewed vince probably from the completely China has Democrats to pay for their aberrant ways decisions a Republican Senate. It’s because have declared thatand They arefor responding withofradical threats towith break every check Franklin transparency According to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns large swaths the population, wide-scale Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor ary wet markets. Some believe itlong came out ofare a unable economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked so as they to replace Ginsburg with an activist and balance. This week, Democrats openly threatened Metricseditor and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the testing andhygiene contact tracing, or with the realization thatto wedestroy will have and Chinese honesty Roosevelt rcommunist | Frank Hill, senior army.opinion to to bring China into the civilized world of 21st century health, left-wing judge willing use the Constitution to cram down the Senate filibuster, a traditional mechanism for restraining bare Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work. from our infamously rous verifiable policing and liberal regulation of prescriptions, and fairthey trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the most blamerecently used by Democrats themselves to stymie policy will tear down every barrier to majorities, peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can we do? Are th protocols, American has no other or express sincere regret and remorse, because that COVID-19 is not whatrelief funding. They also threatened to add new states scientific sought toexperts packbusiness majoritarian bytyranny. nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by weevery capable of rolling out tens of millions of tests over the next few ndant manufacturing plantsventilators elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of weakness — we need to The Constitution was specifically constructed to promote gridlock. months to the union, specifically citing federal territories they believe the Supreme August by nearly 12,000. — and compelling people to take tests regularly, since will the safety reasons as well as supply andbecause deliverythe Founding they findFathers in adversaries and keep pushing until theyelect win Democrats; or the know what they That’s greatly feared majoritarian and to pack the Supreme Court, reestablishing a Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic? Can we Court; Lyndon adversaries push back. tyranny — legalized mob rule by which simple majorities could cram Democratic-appointed majority by adding new seats. know, what they questions will allow the economy to reopen. a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans — and Johnson make China “pay” for this disaster is tothat offer That unless anTo exogenous event happens such create as These the Chernobyl down violations of rights on is, minorities. that end, they balanced actions merely violative of constitutional principles First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we toaren’t submit ourselves to one? don’t and when nies whoradically will source at least the halfHouse of theirof Representatives, meltdownwhich in 1986. Some experts believeand that event,and not the thewilling Star Wars was popularly elected, founding philosophy. They are dangerous. 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No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those hey’ve donned masks. seasonal, which means we are likely to see more serious spreading have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the coronavirus response. our community about their concerns that special-needs children Carolina & Western Railway. ce that the currency, we would not be able to fund any of these emergency end it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the The result: a reduction inwithout expected hospitalization and death. in the fall. And that means we Iwill be people faced eitherofrenewed Lenten and pandemic. While throughout our communities to step up, were not able to access services during remote have thewith pleasure touring the ACWRcontinue rail operations measures immediate fearcountry, ofcaregiving rampant and currency I am thrilled eChina. answers should not be vague ones like “we and inflation the stricter some of themlearning. get in states, such as had Michigan, ccording to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wide-scale For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Congress, like the Paycheck This was due to a loophole that restricts families with special-needs based in Montgomery County. A lifeline throughout our entire Easter seasons -19 depreciation. undance of the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about to caution.” report thatmodel Metrics and Evaluation most oft cited by members of the testing and contact tracing, or with the realization that we will have making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-employed people and children from having respite care during the school day. This is an region, the ACWR is critical to transporting goods and supporting y China has to pay for their aberrant ways and decisions through provide a people of this state who ned in detail to the when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand last week, rumpout administration, theand expected need for hospital bedsnormal atusobviously towhen isolate those who are mostjobs vulnerable and let everyone else work. Corinthians 1:4, which reminds our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people on the payroll, while direct appropriate safeguard during times students are able across the Eighth District and our state. ame of a economic financial means. Diplomacy has not worked obless and at home answers. message offor an undetermined eak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, thea number of when Which raises the third question: What exactly can we do?and Areworkers. affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families Please know that I’ll to attend school. But in pandemic children may be kept at Last week’s announced grant will enable many growth CMS granted to bring China into the civilized world of 21st century health, hygiene els predicting hundreds of cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they hopenearly that we13,000 willof thousands entilators and thethese number of overall deaths bywe we capable of rollingbyout tens of millions ofparticularly testsonover the next few affliction, with the comfort which ourselves are comforted continue working common sense and targeted solutions so that home, safeguards would not allow the program’s intended opportunities, in rural areas, between Moore, ation of a by and fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the blame waiver for can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer again enjoy sincere ugust byonce nearly 12,000. months — and compelling people to defeat take tests regularly, since the God.” we can the coronavirus keep people and businesses purposes to work to provide care for children and relief for parents. Montgomery, Stanly, Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties. The has no other or express regret and remorse, because that is not what with what the state has asked and then with details that give their statements believability. North Carolina Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers toadvantage the issue, keyseason, virus isyou transmittable while funding carriers are we infrastructure and freight sporting events, If you are the Easter Itourge to also whole. As soon ascelebrating I heard about this I got work. I immediately willasymptomatic? greatly improveCan ACWR’s where totalitarian do. They take of every weakness alongpurely the way I’ve also had governments questions about We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, to provide uestions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans — and seasons reflectthe on Trump this and beuntil comforted, soorthat may this live out Until provide message of urged Administration take action towe rectify operations andthe willLenten attractand newEaster industry and jobs intoathis service concerts, family nd delivery they find in adversaries andmessage keep pushing win the n leaders have, too. ourselves, andtothey our communities safe. But we should also stillthen, continue First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting events, concerts, family situation and get support for special-needs children in our area. home and adversaries push back. gatherings, rtain types of questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home mportant because That it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: continue as they have been. this difficult time. Through faith by helping one another, amThings church services and many more celebrations aftertoour community. directly appealing to for Medicare Itcannot was a thrill to call ACWR Railway President Julie White tell rndency is to offer is, unless an exogenous event happens such asthe theCenters Chernobyl communityamong some people to treat thoseAfter measures areand understandable, they shouldI also havegatherings, an expiration date. church services e open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a Americans are not going to stay home for months on end, and confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifices for the greater good of the country and and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, I am thrilled her the grant was awarded. Julie told me this grant was a “game oftatheir meltdown in 1986. Some experts believe that event, not the Star Wars and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, and many more based services more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether they certainly will not do so changer” on the basis ofwill ever-evolving models, In thisled same spirit, Ithe continue towe be inspired stories of humanity are over. to report that last week, CMS awhile waiver for North Carolina allow critical improvements to the rail line that ly $120 program of are Reagan, directly toshape, dissolution of the Soviet Union are conspiracy theorists or people who or granted form. So weby should remain vigilant and stay that safe, at after our own for these atught to lock down further. especially as statistics roll in that look like the lower-end model neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating Easter, as well as Passover, a joyous to provide home and community-based services for these at-risk will benefit farms and other businesses throughout our region. I am equipment in 1989. y get themselves or others sick. the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-called “new We’ve seen case fatality rates — Concord, the number of Chernobyl. deaths divided by estimates in terms of death and the upper-end estimates in terms temporary In a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all continue to keep faith, practice children. also excited about the impact this will have on bringing new jobs to risk children. 5 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s ning government at all levels become a bad normal.” atenumber Journal Wednesday, April 15, 2020 he offor identified COVID-19 cases — but both the numerator ofpossibility economic damage. We need transparency and honestyand from our confident that we will get money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face shields for necessary safety guidelines remain This would not have happened without parents reaching out to our community. sacrifices are Senators in Washington are already talking about the itizens living in a free society were supposed Not one little bit. nd theChina denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many scientific — weinneed to know they know,I what they health care workers out his own home. through this together. my office and is just part of my jobthem to work on behalf of As yourwhat congressman, will continue to fight for common sense nt in forgiving $1.2 trillion in debtof we owe as one way toexperts geteveryone over. of China eople have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources suggest the don’t and when they hope to know what they don’t. our community to solve problems. While the COVID-19 pandemic solutions to rebuild our economy, renew the American dream for ufacturing China to “pay” for the damage they have caused the US. Don’t hold your go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah umber has beenbreath overestimated, given that classification for cause We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing to follow their advice. Butof life. You can count on me to has created many challenges, families with special needs children all Americans and restore our way lion in waiting for a Chinese “Jubilee” to happen but ask your elected ing the virus, and I’m worried I will. After and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. f death, particularly among deserve elderlyhold patients, be variable. Some they need to start serious questions, orevery they will preybehalf, staying focused on theChina peacecan of mind thatinthey can continue to access coming to work day fall on your nue accountable tangible financial ways for answeringkeep irusis(swine flu) representatives during the 2009topandemic, ources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all other American services public health and doing whatever it takes to emerge from this time etra areprecautions, now this disaster. because all caregiving of this brings up during this time. As we continue to address many people are dying at home. institutions seem deeply prone. the coronavirus, I am committed to getting our community the stronger than ever. mies as in the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of of a painful experience I’d prefer not to repeat. Even more importantly, we have no clue how many Americans the world like any other modern nation. e lose sleep is how easily most everyone has ctually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest that the number Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, American fetidentified cases could be an order of magnitude lower than the host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire. that they bins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor umber of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. com. world and nbi.
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Dozens affected by Notre Dame outbreak South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame said it had 39 football players in isolation or quarantine on Monday as it deals with the COVID-19 outbreak that forced the Fighting Irish to postpone last week’s game at Wake Forest. The Fighting Irish already had an open date scheduled for this week and are not slated to play again until Oct. 10 when Florida State travels to South Bend. In a news release, Notre Dame said 18 football players tested positive last week, seven of which had already been quarantined after contact tracing had determined they had been exposed to people who had already been infected. A total of 25 players were in isolation after testing positive and another 14 were being quarantined after contact tracing, the school said.
Lots of unfamiliar territory in 2020 baseball playoffs The shortened 60-game schedule means several teams will be playing each other for the first time By Jay Cohen The Associated Press CHICAGO — Mookie Betts, meet Devin Williams and his devastating changeup. Aaron Judge, take a closer look at a much improved Shane Bieber. Fernando Tatis Jr., say hello to Jack Flaherty. Welcome to the first round of the 2020 playoffs, a class with an unusual amount of homework — and precious little room for error. After the pandemic-shortened regular season was limited to regional play, seven of the eight wild-
card series involve teams that haven’t played any meaningful games against each other since last year. The one exception is Blake Snell and Tampa Bay taking on Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Toronto in an all-AL East matchup. “It’s like the old days, man, when you played a team you’ve never played before. It’s exactly what it is,” said Sandy Alomar Jr., the acting manager for the Indians. “It’s very strange.” That meant a lot of video and scouting work before the AL playoffs began Tuesday and the NL postseason starts Wednesday. And the advance reports might be a tick or two off after scouts were shut out of ballparks this year because of COVID-19 protocols. Factor in the format — it’s a
best-of-three series in the first round, compared to best of five in the division series and best of seven in the final two rounds — and the wild-card round might be a more apt description than Major League Baseball had intended. “Any mistake can be a total mess for either team,” Twins slugger Nelson Cruz said. “Every pitch will be critical.” Betts and the Dodgers rolled to baseball’s best record this year at 43-17, three games better than the Rays. But they get to walk the same thin line as everybody else in opening series of their eighth consecutive playoff appearance. While Los Angeles brings a deep lineup and pitching staff into its matchup with Milwaukee, which squeaked into the field on the final day of the season, the Brewers can call on Williams at a big moment in a tight game. The 26-year-old Williams, one of the favorites for NL Rookie of the Year, allowed one earned run and struck out 53 in 27 innings this year. Milwaukee also has Josh Hader in its bullpen, perhaps the only area where it might have an advantage over the NL West champions. The Yankees and Indians ha-
“It’s like the old days, man, when you played a team you’ve never played before.” Sandy Alomar Jr., acting Indians manager ven’t played against each other since last August, and their powerful lineups face quite the challenge in Game 1 of their wild-card series. Bieber, the ace of the Indians and the favorite for the AL Cy Young Award, versus Gerrit Cole, the $324 million right-hander for the Yankees. San Diego is making its first playoff appearance since 2006. Up next for the Padres is St. Louis, which lost to Washington in the NLCS last year. The series opener could put Tatis in the same game with Flaherty for only the second time. The 21-year-old Tatis singled and struck out in two at-bats against Flaherty during the Padres’ 5-3 victory at St. Louis on April 5, 2019.
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NASCAR fines Hendrick $100,000 for too much wind tunnel time Charlotte Hendrick Motorsports was fined $100,000 on Thursday for exceeding the amount of wind tunnel testing allowed in a year. NASCAR also docked the organization 10 hours of wind tunnel time for next year. An organization is allowed a maximum of 70 hours in 2020 and 90 hours in 2021. The testing is defined as billable hours reported by the wind tunnel. Hendrick Motorsports selfreported the violation after discovering it had exceeded 70 hours by “less than an hour,” the team said. Hendrick will not appeal the penalty.
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LeMahieu, Soto batting champs in shortest season in century New York DJ LeMahieu became the first player to win undisputed batting titles in both leagues and Juan Soto the youngest NL champion as Major League Baseball’s shortest regular season since 1878 ended Sunday. LeMahieu hit .364 for the New York Yankees, the highest for an AL batting champion since Minnesota’s Joe Mauer hit .365 in 2009. He won the NL batting title with Colorado in 2016. Soto batted .351 for Washington and at 21 years, 11 months, 2 days became the youngest NL batting champion. He surpassed Pete Reiser, who was 22 years, 195 days when he won for Brooklyn in 1941.
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Belichick reaches milestone in Patriots’ win Foxborough, Mass. Bill Belichick joined George Halas (318) and Don Shula (328) as the only coaches in NFL history to reach 275 regular-season victories after the New England Patriots defeated the Las Vegas Raiders 3620 on Sunday. The Patriots have won the last six meetings with the Raiders and improved to 47-9 in regular-season games following a loss. Raiders coach Jon Gruden dropped to 0-3 against Belichick.
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Fernando Tatis Jr. and the upstart San Diego Padres are some of the new faces that will play in the Major League Baseball postseason.
Kurt Busch finally wins at home track, advances to Round of 8 The Las Vegas native won in his 22nd try at the track By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Two decades of heartbreak at his home track finally ended for Kurt Busch when a little bit of luck fell his way at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Busch happened to be the leader when a late caution Sunday night jumbled the field and put him in control of his 0-for-21 losing streak in his hometown. He had three magnificent restarts, including one in overtime, to steal a vital playoff race. The good timing helped Busch sneak his way into the third round of the NASCAR Cup playoffs. He had been ranked last among the 12 title contenders before the race; now he’s guaranteed a slot in the round of eight. “This is 20 years of agony and defeat and today triumph,” Busch said. “I don’t know if I have any gas left or if I just filled my tank up to go win every race. This is my hometown and I have so many people to thank and I know they are watching on television so proud of their hometown driver.” The win, the first of the season for the 2004 Cup champion, was celebrated alongside younger brother, Kyle. The reigning NASCAR champion slammed doors with his big brother on the cooldown lap. Busch then took the checkered flag to the finish line and smacked it on each of the letters in Las Vegas. “This is what kids dream of when they grow up racing. You dream of winning at your home-
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Kurt Busch celebrates after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at his hometown track in Las Vegas. town track,” said Busch, “and for two decades it’s kicked my butt.” It was the first win of the year for Chip Ganassi Racing and the first in the playoffs for a Chevrolet driver. Busch happened to be the leader during a round of green flag pit stops interrupted with 32 laps remaining by just the fifth caution of the race. It cycled him to the lead for the ensuing restart and he had an incredible jump to control the front. Busch did it two more times, including a final restart in overtime,
to deny the challengers any shot at catching him. Matt DiBenedetto, eliminated from the playoffs last weekend, finished second in a Ford for Wood Brothers Racing in his best finish of the season. Denny Hamlin dominated the race until the cautions jumbled the finish but rallied to finish third in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. He first gambled to pit for new tires to give him a shot to work through traffic, then chose the top lane in the overtime shootout in a mad scramble to catch Busch.
Hamlin led 121 of the 268 laps. “By far the best car I’ve had in Las Vegas in a long time,” Hamlin said. “Really encouraged by the way we ran, but very disappointed that we didn’t get a win. It’s just been the way the playoffs have gone. Whoever stays out the longest puts themselves in a great spot to win.” Martin Truex Jr., another Gibbs driver, was fourth and followed by Alex Bowman in Chevrolet and Gibbs driver Kyle Busch, who is 0-for-30 this Cup season as he seeks a second consecutive title.
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‘The Last Dance’ director talks project Albemarle on Jordan’s Bulls Parks and Rec
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The 10-part documentary will air over five Sundays By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press
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HBCU Heat NFL start hopefuls Lakers, their adjust after preparations for days, NBA Finals canceled pro combine
second round, are trying to become the second team in the last 18 seasons to beat a pair of No. 1 seeds in the same playoff. Toronto did it last year, first to Milwaukee, then to Golden State. Before that, one would have to go back to 2002 when the LakLeBron James faces one of Monday. “But we know that the ers pulled off the feat. The coronavirus pandemic Central Darihis former teams trying to can’t “I’mdefensive full of lineman emotions,” Heat jobcompete.” isn’t done yet.” us Royster, the Mid-Eastern Athhas made it even harder ButThethat opportunity never “I’ve been guard Goran Dragic said. “I’m Heat were spending much claim his fourth NBA title “Just Conference andthis happy. 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While before retiring to their nals on Saturday — a day before away LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. coronavirus schools their film out there,” said Morsmall school and borderline draft The Associated Press here.” — Bam Adebayo woke up on Miami finished off the Eastern a few hours of sleep. doesn’t gan State coach Tyrone Wheatprospects from across the counAdebayo said he enjoyed himMonday with the realization Conference crown — were starta first-round pick by the New willtobe bygame a lackplan of simDE’MONTREZ meanDragic, — within reason. gethurt their in or- ley,self that only two teamsBurroughs still have a trying Goran York Giants in 1995. limits the ilar events, HBCU players may looked at it as his best shot to ac“I had a Shirley“It Temple,” Adechance to win this season’s NBA der after a one-day break as well. we can’t pro scouts from actually seeing be hit hardest without them and complish his NFL dream. Heat guard bayo said. Much like the Heat, the Lakchampionship. guysbubble one-on-one, to look Combine InvitaThe South Carolina State se-the theersRegional compete.” has been tough took a moment to enjoy win- theseThe Goosebumps kicked in at at them and physically place eyes tional that HBCU players in renior receiver had the dates cirning the conference title. Win- mentally and also physically, thought. them.teams To get some of the quesyears hadahead previously used to cled What on his was calendar. the cent playing every othning a day of Miami just on with once First, a 22-team De’Montrez tions answered up close and per-the boost their draft stock. Bulldogs’ annual pro day on bubble at Walt Disney World is happens to give the Lakers a bit er day for the most part once “Whentime you’re an sonal.” March followed a week Burroughs, season resumed on July 30. 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It’s really about staying sin“It’s pretty cool considering, but those capped in the 2019 draft with a ferencing, hewhen wouldyou sayreally in interviews with it, selected think the fact that are we enjoy each gle-minded in our focus about think about week, said Aupredraft though 32 to at three representatives from NFLteam teams other per away from theagent basketball needsprocess, to happen for us it’s you and one other that fullwhat gustine 1 rosters. and to ask idols like Pro of made court Wiggins, has really whose helped clients with the beatWeek the Miami Heat.” arewhat still left standing and one Burroughs. 51 Heat, playerswho invited to the Football of raising Famer the Deion bubble environment and hopeThe ousted East include the twoHall will be Larry The “It’s harder garner for interHBCU combine were trying to Sanders, who would be there. us.” O’Brien Trophy,” Adebayo said No. 1 seed Milwaukee in the fully that willtocontinue “It was a chance to be able to position themselves to do the est and understand where the inshowcase our talent,” Burroughs same. The list also included Flor- terest is for clients than in years said. “Just because we are from ida A&M University quarterback past,” Wiggins said. “It’s a slightly smaller schools doesn’t mean we Ryan Stanley and North Carolina different pivot.”
JASON HEHIR was a kid in the stands in Boston Garden on April 20, 1986, the day that Michael Jordan scored a playoff-record 63 points. It wasnew a Christmas from his father,to who The site willgift allow residents stuck a note promising “Twoand tickets to the Air sign up for programs reserve Jordan Show” in his stocking that holiday seafacilities son. It’s a gift Hehir will never forget, though his current seat for another Jordan By Jesse Dealshow of sorts is considerably better. “I wouldn’t Stanly County Journal Hehir is the director of the it a ESPNALBEMARLE and Netflix production “The callthis — Beginning I Last Dance,” aAlbemarle 10-part documenThursday, Parks and challenge. Recretary series that debuts April 19 and ation will be going live with its new on- call it would tells theregistration story of Jordan’s finalpowChiline system cago Bulls season insoftware. 1997-98 that a privilege.” ered by RecDesk culminated in a sixth Now in its 57th NBA year, title. the Hehir’s task: Take 10,000 of Jason Hehir, Albemarle Parks and hours Recrearchived footage, add interviews ation Department is moving to director of “The with 100 people, an more onlinethan database where and usturn into about 8½accounts hours of teleersit can register and Last Dance” vision. access programs, facilities, Age of the “I wouldn’t it a challenge,” leagues andcall a calendar by logAlbemarle Hehir said. “I would call it a privilege.” ging on to www.albemarle.recThe series was moved up two months Parks to pro-and desk.com. vide content-starved fans with something new The initial programs availRecreation to able watch coronavirus are during the 2nd the Annual Pump- pandemic. Department ESPN was Tournament originally planning to release the kin Ball (an adult documentary in June, softball league set forcoinciding Oct. 30- with what would have been season’s NBA Finals. 31) as well as this various Outdoor It will run over five Sundays ending May 17, Challenge courses that include canoeing with two one-hour broadcasts each week. at Morrow Mountain, a trip to the North “I’m happyZoo, if weand can access bring ato little of light to Carolina thebit Carolina people in a Challenge dark time here,” Hehir said. “Sports Treetop at Rock Creek Park. are such an indelible part of our cultural By accessing the facilities page of fabric the andnew lacking thatusers ... there’s a significant website, can reserve time hole slots in enjoyment that people feel, the Complex, escape thatthe peoat the Albemarle Soccer pleChuck can feel from everyday life that sports brings Morehead Park Multipurpose us.”Field, pool and picnic tables; similar faThe accelerated launch has only added to a cilities at City Lake Park and Rock Creek hectic time for Hehir and his team. Park will also be available for reservaThere hastime beenslots. much anticipation about the tions via documentary, which Hehir’s will mindsoon camebetoWhile the new in database gether much faster than such a project up and running, health precautions usually have does. changed the scope of the programs cur“Normally, to dobyanAlbemarle hourlong archival docrently offered Parks and umentary from start to finish, it takes about Rec. a year“The fromCity the inception of thecontinues idea to thetoreof Albemarle search to doing all the shooting to gettingreit all monitor the rapidly evolving events together, storyboarding out, mapping out, lated to Coronavirus it COVID-19,” the itdeediting, getting notes back, it takes about partment said in a press release back in a year,” Hehir said. “We’re doing 10 of those. And March. we had a little bit recommendations over two years to dofrom it so the we’re “Following already working at five times our normal rate.” North Carolina Governor’s Office, North The pandemic further of complicates matters. Carolina Department Health and HuHehir and his team are finishing things up while man Services, and North Carolina Deseparated, connecting through Zoom meetings partment of Public Health, and the rebutcent largely in isolation theirCarolina own laptops action from the at North High to getSchool the last Athletic pieces of the story ready to air. Association and StanThe documentary goes than just 1997ly County Schools, thedeeper City of Albemar98,lethough season is the overriding theme. Parksthat & Recreation Department will It also servesall asprograms a retrospective of Jordan’s bassuspend and events of 100 ketball life, from hisathletic college days at North Caroor more people, league activities, linaand through hisrentals rise atop NBA. facility atthe Niven Center and Hehir knows there is an ongoing buildup and Waddell Center effective Friday, March anticipation documentary, and 13, 2020 surrounding until furtherthe notice. This may stillchange feels nervousness. He met with Jordan sevas the response to Coronavirus eralevolves.” times over the course of the project, including three sit-down interviews that are part of the documentary. “I hope that people will like it as much as we did,” Hehir said.
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Become a part of Stanly County Schools! Stanly County Schools has an opening for a Speech Language Pathologist serving the K-12 population. Position is a full-time, 10 month position with full benefits. Candidate must hold a current certification from North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists. Interested applicants can apply through the SCS website and email resume to Dr. Laura Beachum, Director of Exceptional Children's Program, at laura.beachum@stanlycountyschools.org.
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Steve Cohen, Doug McGowen, chiefover into dy, Utah,increasingly the Mountain Amer- sites carried the non-partisan Sept. 24, the city’s outnumbered and away from residential neigh- es two problems, residents say: Democrat, said the d for statephis schools chief. GateIt could potentially expose them operating officer, borhoods. 2020, insaid therace aggrieved Republicans have taken xpo Center. Maia who was sense. a sinArlington, the content of the standoesn’t make being considered be-Espinoza, The Gateway Shopping Cen- to the virus amid concerns that way site was he U.S. issue Armywith Corps of Engimother after having firstare othe Wash. dards as they rally for local ter con-in the Nutbush neighborhood blacks are contracting COVID-19 cause it could “I’m sureher there potentially gle accoms has been scouting locations child at 19 years old, said she detrol. said that would work, and they Memphis is different. The cen- at higher rates; and it could force modate hundreds of beds. He ennessee, The andresulting officialsreferendum here of on cided to run against incumbent have Chris used Reykdal those rather t if it were converted to a treatment some of the stores they rely on to ter features a Save A Lot grocery compiled a list of 35 possiSuperintendent the November ballot marks the into a residential site, it would hold only mildly ill close. store, a Rent-A-Center, a Famibackup sites. They haven’t rebecause she is horrified by the neighbo first time in the country that such sex-edbe mandate thatsaid. his adminisa decision ed will Cohen Nutbush resident and commu- coronavirus patients who could ly Dollar, a beauty supply shop, d the whole list, on butsexGov. Billbe decid-
Sex ed mandate sparks bitter Washington state ballot fight
ed by voters. Under the wide-ranging bill, kindergarteners would be taught issue onto the ballot by submitting how to manage feelings and make over 264,000 signatures, the most friends, while older kids will learn gathered for a referendum to overabout consent and how to re- turn an existing bill or law in the spond to violence. The curriculum past four decades, according to must also address issues faced by the secretary of state. It was double the minimum number needLGBTQ students. At least 29 states plus Wash- ed to make the ballot, with twoington, D.C., require public thirds coming from church sites. The group helmed by Mindie schools to teach sex education, but the National Conference of Wirth, a tech company managState Legislatures and the Edu- er who lives in the Seattle suburb cation Commission of the States of Bothell, was aided by Catholic — two organizations that track church parishes that served as siga son of King Salman, Associated Press nature-gathering locations while policy trends — said it has bin nev-Salman, the deal.limited traditional pandemic er appeared on a statewideassented bal- theto “I go with the consent, so I UBAI, lot. United Arab Emirpetitioning activities. Instead, the curriculum has “It prince feels like we’rechuckling, just not bebeenRussia debated and at school boardsagree,” and the said, — OPEC, other ingalistened to and I thinkfrom this is statehouses. round of applause roducing nations on Sunday drawing A Washington state group fund- a very large part of what this repized anedunprecedented pro- those on the video call. by Republican leaders called resents,” said Wirth, a one-time But Republican it had not candidate been smiles ion cut Parents of nearly 10 million who and lost a for Safe Schools forced the
PEC, oil nations agree o nearly 10M barrel cut
els, or a 10th of global supply, laughs for weeks after the soopes of boosting crashing pric- called OPEC+ group of OPEC mid the coronavirus pandemic members and other nations failed in March to reach an agreement a price war, officials said. his could be the largest re- on production cuts, sending pricion in production from OPEC es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply erhaps a decade, maybe lon- criticized Russia days earlier over said U.S. Energy Secretary what it described as comments Brouillette, who credited critical of the kingdom, which ident Donald Trump’s per- finds itself trying to appease l involvement in getting duel- Trump, a longtime OPEC critic. Even U.S. senators had warned parties to the table and helpto end a price war between Saudi Arabia to find a way to boost prices as American shale di Arabia and Russia. il prices have collapsed as the firms face far-higher production navirus and the COVID-19 costs. American troops had been to the kingdom for the ss it causes have largely halt- deployed endorsement until this week. Both By Ben Nadler since the 2001, lobal travel and slowed down first time politicians are Sept. from 11, Gainesville, The Associated Press 50 miles over about concerns of northeast Iranir energy-chugging sectors attackslocated of Atlanta. ATLANTA — ItA pair new retaliation amid regional tenas manufacturing. has of an Collins and Loeffler, both endorsements are stated high-profile the oil industry in sions. adding fuel to an already conten- staunch supporters of President “They’ve last U.S., which pumps more Donaldspent Trump,over are thethe top Repubtiousnow special election for a U.S. month waging war on American e than any other country. lican candidates in a jam-packed Senate seat in Georgia. producers whilefor weLoeffler’s are defendut some producers have beenDealoilenfield running seat. If Former Gov. Nathan no candidate receives than dorsed Republican Rep. Doug Colfriends tant to ease supply. The car- ing theirs. This is not how more 50% of votes on Nov. 3, a strong lins on Monday, backing his bid to nd other nations on Sunday treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin possibility with over 20 entrants unseat Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a fellow a Republican from North ed to allow Mexico to cut only Cramer, Republican. That puts Deal on the in the mix, the top two will move Dakota, before OPEC+ deal. 000 barrels a month, a sticka Jan. 5 runoff. opposing side from current Gov. forward tothe U.S. producers have point for an Kemp, accord initially Trump himself has already not made Brian who appointed Loefbeen output. Therace. Ameran endorsement in the “Don’t hed Friday a marathon fler toafter the seat and has become one reducing anybody get Institute out,” he said at an of her best assets in campaign. ican Petroleum laudo conference between 23the naevent in Cobb pact, Countysaying on Friday, “I know that the governored had Sunday’s global it s. The nations together agreed to make a tough choice, but I’ve implying that having two Repubwill help get other nations’ stateut 9.7 million barrels a day made my choice too, and that’s licans duking it out in the Senate owned race oil production toown follow the ughout May June.Deal said, accordwould help his reelection Dougand Collins,” lead of U.S. producers that are tryhe grouping reached the deal just to Collins’ campaign. “A Sen- prospects. On the other side demand. of the aisle, seat representing the state ingofto adjust to plunging s beforeateAsian markets reformer President Jimmy Georgia cannot be bought,” he Brouillette said the U.S. didCarter, not ed Monday and as internawith former of firstits ladyown Rosaadded, taking a shot at the tens commitments al benchmark Brent crude make along of millions of dollars of person- lynn Carter, on Tuesday endorsed production cuts, but was able to ed at just over that $31Loeffler a barrel Raphael Warnock. al wealth has used to Democrat show the obvious — that plunging American shale producers Warnock, pastor of the historfund her campaign. demand because Baptist of theChurch pandemggle. ic Ebenezer in AtThe endorsement was foreshadlanta where the late owed earlier this month when ic is expected to slash U.S.Rev. oil Martin prodeo aired by the Saudi-owned Luther King Jr. preached, leads Deal attended a rally for Collins, duction. lite channel Al-Arabiya but he had not formally made an among Democrats but has strugIranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanwed the moment that Saudi gy Minister Prince Abdulaziz ganeh also told state television
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bid for state Senate in 2016. Courtney Normand, director of a Planned Parenthood-affiliated political group in the state, is leading the campaign in support of the sex-ed bill. She said her coalition didn’t mobilize during the referendum petition because of the pandemic and was dismayed that the opposition’s in-person signature-gathering took place despite Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s stayat-home order. “It seems to be a political, partisan turn-out goal rather than really an intention about student safety,” Normand said of the Republican-led efforts. As of Sept. 24, almost half of the $1.1 million raised for Safe & Healthy Youth Washington, the campaign in support of sex ed, has
come from Planned Parenthood affiliates. Parents for Safe Schools — the campaign against the sex-ed bill — has amassed $245,000 in contributions. Most came from the Reagan Fund, the political action committee of the Washington State House Republican Leadership. Republicans have slammed the mandate as an affront to local and parental control of education. Though school boards have the authority to create or adopt their own curriculum, opponents said the bill would still dictate what must be covered in classes. Opposition leaders say they aren’t necessarily opposed to sex education but see the statewide mandate as heavy-handed.
tration requested. Two years ago, Espinoza ran as a Republican in a losing bid for a seat in the state House. Those in support of comprehensive sex ed say it’s a health and safety measure needed to protect children, and that there is a wide disparity among the nearly 300 public school districts in the state, a small number of which do not teach any sex education. Reykdal, who previously served three terms as a Democrat in the state House, said the state education department routinely reviews content standards. He said the legislature was mindful of the sensitivity of the sex ed topic, issuing age-appropriate concepts by grade level and allowing families to opt out of the lessons. Families also have a say when their local school district adopts curriculum.
A pair of endorsements adds more fuel to Georgia Senate race
SAUDI ENERGY
In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minist Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of the Group of 20 energy minister his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate a response to plummet prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due to the pandemi
that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the deal but its president, Andrés praise. “The pure size of the cu the United Arab Emirates would Manuel López Obrador, had said cut another 2 million barrels of Friday that he had agreed with precedented, but, then ag oil a day between them atop the Trump that the U.S. will compen- is the impact the corona OPEC+ deal. The three countries sate what Mexico cannot add to having on demand,” said M med Ghulam, an energy an did not immediately acknowledge the proposed cuts. SUSAN WALSH | AP PHOTO James. “The big Oil Deal with OPEC Raymond the cut themselves, though ZanIn thisattended March 20,the 2020, file photo, Sen. Plus Kelly is Loeffler, speak in aBut television Ghulam and others w done. R-Georgia, This will waits save to hunganeh video conferinterview on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. of thousands of energy jobs it may not be enough. dreds ence. “This is at least a tempo Officials said other planned cuts in the United States,” Trump said lief for the energy industry in a tweet. “I would like to thank would stand in the deal, meaning “During these difficult times, pandemic.” gled to crack into the top two in the economy. and congratulate President Puan 8-million-barrel-per-day cut Carter is theglobal second former This i public polling, where he would be our nation must continue to march president to back Warnock’s camtowards progress while holding in position for a runoff spot. is too big to be let to fail and tin of Russia and King Salman of from July through the end of the paign, joining Barack Obama, fast to our American values of That’s led to a full-court press liance showed responsibili year and a 6-million-barrel cut for Saudi Arabia.” who announced his endorsement justiceKremlin and economic some beginning Democrats to this agreement,” said Per M saidop-President 16from months in consol2021. equality,The idate support behind Warnock portunity for all,” Carter said in on Friday. Nysveen, the head Vladimir Putin held a joint call “This will enable the rebalancBoth of Georgia’s Republi- of ana with the hopes of pushing other a statement. “Reverend Warnock Rystad tho with Trump Georgians and Saudi Sal- U.S. ing of the oil markets andLiebthe excan-held SenateEnergy. seats are“Even up knows the struggles areKing Democrats, including Matt cuts are small express of grabs the onproduction pected rebound of prices by $15 Nov. 3. In the other facingman in thistounique crisis support — fam- for erman, out of the race. Lieberman, race, Republican David Perilies losing health an barrel educator son ofterm,” formersaid what Sen. the market needed a deal. It alsocare, saidshuttered Putin spoke sepper in and the short seeking a secondthe term and buildi ruralarately hospitalswith and record Joe Lieberman, postpone stock Trumpunemabout due the isoil a Connecticut statementSen. from Nigeria’s oil ployment — all in the middle of a faces Democrat Jon Ossoff. has so far refused to budge. straints problem, the wors market and other issues. ministry. Analysts offered cautious now avoided.” Mexico had initially blocked
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Jason Efird
J Lauren Burris
ASON EUGENE “GENE” EFIRD, 94, went home to be with hisLAUREN Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, his SHANNON “LAat LA” home in Stanfield. BURRIS, 22, of Locust passed Gene bornSeptember October 9, 1925, away onwas Friday, 18, in Cabarrus County to the late Simeon 2020 in Atrium Health Stanly. Jason Efird and the late Her funeral service willSarah be onElla Burris Efird. In addition to his at Thursday, September 24, 2020 parents, he was preceded in by 2 PM at Mission Church indeath Locust his wife, Jewell Little Efird; sisters, with Pastor Ronnie Russell and Mary Fannieofficiating. Almond, PastorLambert, Jeremy Hyde Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson and Burial will follow in the Oakboro Aileen Huskey; and brothers, Homer Cemetery. The family will receive Efird, Getus EfirdFuneral and Wayne friends at Stanly andEfird, Sr. Cremation Care of Locust on A private funeral be Wednesday eveningservice from will 6 until held on Saturday, April 11, 2020 8 PM. at Love’ s Grove to United Methodist In addition her parents, she Church Cemetery in Stanfield is survived by a sister Susanne officiated byaRev. Jim White. Burris and brother GarrettBurial will follow at the Love’ s United Burris and niece Ava, Grove all of the Methodist Church Cemetery, 4360 home, maternal grandparents Polk Ford Stanfield. Susan andRoad, Bubba Weedon of Survivors include Gerald Mint Hill, paternal son grandmother Wayne (Gail) Efird of Albemarle; Shelbia Shore of Locust, paternal daughter LisaLarry Efird (Mark) Hartsell grandfather Burris Sr. of of Stanfield; granddaughters, Charlotte and numerous aunts, Kelly Lauren unclesEfird andBarbee cousinsand that loved her Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and greatdearly. grandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and Elliot Jacob Simmons. Memorials may be made to Love’s Grove United Methodist Church, PO Box 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.
Ann Baity Pauline ANN DUNLAP BAITY, Tucker 78, of Albemarle passed away
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on Wednesday, September 23, AULINE ELIZABETH 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly. ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed A memorial service to celebrate away peacefully at Trinity Place, her life willNC be on held at 611, PM Albemarle, April 2020. onPauline Wednesday, September 30, was born on March 22, 2020 in the Stanly Funeral 1922 in Cabarrus County, NC to the andJohn Cremation Chapel late RichardCare Almond andinAlice Albemarle. Visitation will be held Ada Ann Lambert Almond. from prior the service. She5-6PM is survived bytoher three Mrs. Baity born June 9, daughters, Gaywas Michel (Jack), 1942Island, in Anson the Oak NC;County Pamela to Rushing late Edgar Oakboro, Parker Dunlap and (Foreman), NC; Kathy Sara Boyette Dunlap. Ann Hunt (Marc), Albemarle, NC;spent her 30 years a substance abuse son, Chrisas Tucker (Chris Lear), counselor with Washington, DC.the SheNorth will beCarolina greatly Mentalby Health Association, missed her five grandchildren, Monarch, Genesis a New(Shannon), Horizon. Heather Rushing Chaney She wasRushing, instrumental in helping Michael Elizabeth Michel start the(Craig), New Horizon program. Hartzog Jack Michel, Jr. Ann loved family abundantly (Jenn), and her Woody Hunt as well as and was a mama bear to everyone. seven great-grandchildren. She also Ann is survived by her leaves behind cherished nieces and husband Larry Franklin Baity of nephews. Albemarle; Christopher Scott The familyson expresses its sincere Simpson (Rene) of Wadesboro, gratitude to the staff and caregivers NC; daughter Janey at Trinity PlaceDiana for the Lynn care they of Charlotte, NC; grandchildren: provided Pauline. Allison Taylor (Eric) of Salisbury, A private graveside service will be Ian Janey of Phoenix, AZ, Logan held on Monday, April 13, 2020. A Janey of Knoxville, celebration of Pauline’TN, s lifeRebecca and legacy Simpson ofthis Wadesboro, will be held summer. Parker Simpson offlowers, Wadesboro; greatIn lieu of the family grandchildren: Declan Taylor of requests donations be made to the Salisbury, and soon to be BrightFocus Foundation at Paxton www. Taylor; sisters-in-law: Phyllis brightfocus.org. Dunlap of Wadesboro, and Brenda Vice of Los Angeles, CA; nephews Jonathan Dunlap and Jason
Tony Smith MONROE SMITH, 72, of Doyle Cook Rockwell, NC, went to be with TONY
hisDOYLE Lord andB.Savior Jesus COOK, 86,Christ of on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at Albemarle passed away Saturday, his home surrounded A September 26, 2020by in family. Bethany private family service be held. Woods Nursing and will Rehab. Online condolences at Center. His funeralcan willbebemade 2 PM stanlyfuneralhome.com Wednesday, Sept 30, 2020 at Full Tony Mission was bornwith August 11, 1947 Gospel Pastor Brian in Stanly County to the lateCook Pearlie Smith and Rev. Mitchell Asbury Smith and Emmer Leein officiating. Burial will follow Smith. He was the in law of Pat Stanly Gardens ofson Memory. The and Mick Cagle where he worked at family will receive friends Tuesday the fish house for many yearsand until evening at Stanly Funeral he opened Anchor Seafood Cremation Care ofHouse Albemarle from into Rockwell. 6 8 PM. He and his wife Becky owned operated House He isand survived byAnchor sons include for 25sons years beforeCook retiring in 2009. four James (Nancy) of Mr. Smith was a charter member Salisbury, Anthony Cook (Shelia) and deacon at Open Door Baptist of Albemarle, Grover Cook Church in Richfield. He loved the (Cecelia) of Albemarle and Rodney Lord and his family abundantly. Cook (Rachel) of New London Tony was a wonderful father, and daughters Paulahusband, Huneycutt grandfather could fix anything (Randy) andand Trina Poplin (Mark) he putofhis hands on. brothers Dewell both Albemarle, Mr.and Smith is survived his wife Cook Mitchell Cookbyboth of Becky Cagleand Smith of theCook home,of Albemarle Darrell sons Walter12Smith and Robbie16 Seagrove, grandchildren, Smith; daughter Kayla Henderson great-grandchildren and 1 great(Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, great granddaughter. Dustin, and Steele Smith, Keaton and Ella Henderson; brother David Smith; sisters Kay Kriechbaum, Karen Stevenson, Ruby Eudy, and Dorothy Smith (Nick). He is preceded in death by brothers Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, Claude Smith, Wade Smith, Robert Smith, and sister Mary Morris. Memorial contributions can be made to Open Door Baptist Church at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.
Merle Helms
Danny Luther
ERLE LORRAINE AUSTIN HELMS, 72, of Marshville, passed away Wednesday, WINFRED STEVENApril 8, 2020 at McWhorter Hospiceearned House HATLEY, II, of Richfield, in Monroe. his heavenly wings on Monday, Lorraine 21, was2020 born at April 28, 1947 September Atrium in Monroe to the late Homer David Health’s Carolina Medical Center Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane Main. The family will receive Austin. She was also preceded in friends from 5-7PM on Saturday, death by brothers, A.D.atand Teddy September 26, 2020 their home Austin; and sister, JoyAlbemarle, Austin. on 924 Efird Street, The family will receive friends NC 28001. A memorial service from 6:00 pm 8:00 pm, Friday, will be held at 2PM on Sunday, April 10, 2020 Hartsell Funeral September 27,at 2020 at Antioch Home of Albemarle. The funeral Baptist Church in Richfield, NC. service will be at 11:00 amJuly on 6, Mr. Hatley was born Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist 1974 in Stanly County. Steve loved Church in Marshville, officiated his family and he loved the lord. by He Rev.isJohn Miller and Leon survived by hisRev. mother Whitley. She will lie in state for 30 of Bobbie Nowling Williams (Tim) minutes prior to the service. She will Albemarle; father Winfred Steven be laid to rest in the church cemetery. Hatley, Sr. of Richfield; wife Liz She is survived byRichfield; her belovedsons: Edwards Hatley of husband of 47 years, Paul Steven Hatley, III of NY,Helms Harlon of the home; son, AlexHunter (Deanna) Hatley of Richfield, Hatley Helms of Pageland; daughter,Talbert Paula of Richfield; sister Amanda (Cristin Brandt) Helms of Mint (Johnnie Little) of Albemarle;Hill; grandchildren, Mason,(Kristen) Grant, and brother Luke Hatley of Raegan Helms; brothers, Boyce, Richfield; uncles Mike Hurlocker Royce, Tim Austin; and sisters, (Teresa) of Marshville, NC and Patricia Mullis, AngelBeach, Tarleton. Dan Haraczy ofand Myrtle SC; Memorials may be made the nephews: Christopher andto Adrian Alzheimer’ s Association, 4600 Park Little of Albemarle, Zane Hatley Rd., Suite 250,niece Charlotte, 28209. of Richfield; AlexisNC Hatley of
ANNY PAUL LUTHER, 65, of Norwood, passed away unexpectedly Thursday,LITTLE April 9, DORIS PAULINE 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly in WHITLEY, 91, of Oakboro, passed Albemarle. away Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Mr.home. Luther was born March 27, at her 1955 to the late Robert Fulton19, and Doris was born October Helen Tucker Luther. 1928 in Stanly County to the late Danny was Little survived byBessie his wife, James Labon and Denise Burleson Luther of Norwood; Mae Swaringen Little. She was sons,preceded Jeremy (Karen) Luther and also in death by her Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan beloved husband of 44 years, Whitley and Gregg (Anita) Whitley; Nathaniel Bradford Whitley, who Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and passed away in 1992; daughter, Hunter W. Zado, as well his brother, Debbie Allen; andasgreatBob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Jack granddaughter, Lindsey W. Efird. Luther and several other loved nieces, The family will receive friends nephews and cousins. from 2:00pm to 2:45pm on Danny recently retired Thursday, September 24,from 2020 Charlotte Pipe and Foundry after at Red Cross Baptist Church. The a dedicated 37 years and worked funeral service to celebrate her life therefollow with his sons and several other will at 3pm in the church friends andShe family sanctuary. willmembers. be laid to rest Danny lovedcemetery. spendingShe timewill at lie in the church his lake house with his family and in state on Wednesday, September friends as from well as2:00pm vacationing with his 23, 2020 to 5:00pm family. Danny and Denise enjoyed at Hartsell Funeral Home of listening to beach music and loved to Albemarle. shag dance every chance She is survived by herthey son,could get. He was an amazing father, Ronald B. Whitley and wife loving grandfather and great friend to Jane; daughters, Aloma Whitley, many. He will never be forgotten. and Janet Whitley; brother, Bud A celebration of lifeSmith; will be eight Little; sister, Wincie announced onceseven the current grandchildren; greatCOVID-19 restrictions are lifted. grandchildren; two great greatHartsell Funeral Home of grandchildren; and numerous Albemarle serving the Luther nieces andisnephews. family.
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Shirley Haire
ERRY FINCHER passed from this life on April 3, 2020 at 8:05 pm. He was surrounded by his family LARRY LEON KIRK 79 years and holding the hand of the love of of age passed away at Atrium his life. Jerry is preceded in death Medical Center in Albemarle by three siblings, two brothers, Billy N.C. on Wednesday the 16th of Gilbert Fincher, and Larry Richard September 2020 at 12:08 pm. Fincher, and one sister, Barbra Joyce He is predeceased by his Father Moore. William “Boyce” Kirk, Mother He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Bernice Beachum Williams, Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, sister Brenda Kirk Baker and Cindy Fincher Jacobs of Wingate granddaughter Laura Elizabeth NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy Kirk. (Tiffany) Fincher of New London Larry is lovingly survived by NC., Step Children, Jimmy (Lisa) his loving wife of 23 years Irene Lanier of Locust NC, Wanda (Bob) Kirk , his older brother Don Kirk Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric and wife Brenda both of Troy (Sharon) Lanier of Charlotte NC., N.C., daughters Robin Kirk of Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson Chesapeake, VA and Krista Kirk of Midland, Step-grandchildren, – Swindle and husband Jason of Zach (Brittney) Washington, Aaron Virginia Beach, VA. Grandchildren (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) Natasha Kirk, Tyler Kirk, Brayden Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, Swindle and Ryleigh Swindle, one Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step niece and three nephews. great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve Washington, Robert Setzer, George (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob) Setzer Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, Andrew Underwood, Step great great grandchild, Waylon George Setzer and brother Donald Lewis Fincher of Albemarle, NC. Jerry Fincher will be laid to rest on Wednesday April 8,2020 at 11:00 am at Canton Baptist Church. Anyone interested in attending, please RSVP at 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray and Pastor Tommy Fincher will officiate.
Larry Kirk
Charles Ridenhour
Linda Richards LINDA HILDRETH RICHARDS, 76, of Albemarle, passed away September 12, 2020, at Atrium Health Stanly in Albemarle. She graduated from Wadesboro High School in 1962 and Wingate College in 1964. She was crowned May Day Queen at Wingate and it was at this college where she met her love and husband, Robert Glenn “Bob” Richards, Jr. The two metHIRLEY while performing acting MAE HAIRE, 73,roles in the same play.passed Mrs. Richards of Albemarle away on is aApril former Missat Anson County 11, 2020 Atrium Healthand was awarded “Miss Congeniality” Stanly. The family will hold a private in the Miss North graveside service forCarolina Mrs. Haire. pageant. Shirley was born December 12, In in addition to herDC parents, 1946 Washington, to the she was also preceded death byand her late Charles RichardinBateman brother, ElizabethJohn MaeThomas MulliganHildreth; Bateman. herShirley nephew, Mike Hildreth, her is survived by her husband husband, of 30 yearsRobert VaughnGlenn Smith“Bob” of Richards, andSandra daughter, Albemarle;Jr; sister Painter Sharon “Sherry” Rollins. of Gainesville, VA;Richards half-brother Survivors include: son, Jonathan Robert Bateman of Stevensville, Brett Richards of Albemarle; MD; step-children Heather Smith grandchildren, Emilee-Faye of Jacksonville, FL and David Grace Richards, EthanNC; Alexander Smith of New London, 4 Richards, Seth Avery-Glenn step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi Richards, Nicholas Quinn Rollins, Hentschel of Leesburg, VA and William Elliott Rollins; greatCheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA; 16 grandgrandchild, Eric Rollins; son-innieces and nephews; and Gus the law, Eric Rollins; niece, dog. Gregory Stanly Funeral and Cremation Cindy Fagg; nephew, Care ofHildreth Albemarle is serving the Dan Hildreth. Haire family.
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INDA TUCKER HATLEY, 69, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, April 13, 2020. Linda was born September 18, 1950 in Concord to the late Jacob and Claris Tucker. She was also preceded FLORA MARIE ALLEN in death by her brother, Terry Lee FOWLER, Midland, passed Tucker, and 77, herof twin sister, Brenda away peacefully at her home Tucker Strickland. We know Brenda Tuesday, 22, watching 2020. and LindaSeptember are in Heaven Flora waslaughing. born March 24,1943, over us and in Charlotte, to the late Brice Linda was aNC loving mother, sister, and Lucille Allen. She was also and “Nana.” She was a very giving preceded death Linda by herwould son, and lovingin person. Aaron “Kenny” Fowler, Jr.; always do anything she couldsister, for Sylvia and brother-in-law, others,Stines; especially her family. She Edward Stines. at FastShop #5, enjoyed working Survivors husband, Locust. Lindainclude will beher forever loved Aaron Kenneth Fowler, Sr.; and greatly missed. daughter and son-in-law, Machelle Survivors include her son, and Steve Smith of Midland; Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, of brother andbrother, sister-in-law, Jr. Albemarle; RonnieBrice Tucker and Kym Allen; grandchildren, and wife, Linda, of Midland; Kymberly Geiser andHatley; Benjamin granddaughter, Leslie 1 Petrea of Mt. Pleasant, niece; and 2 nephews. Emily and Harrision Peacock of Raleigh, The family will receive friends Haley andpm Lucas Ward Concord, from 4:00 - 6:00 pm,ofThursday, Aaron Myers of Raleigh; and April 16, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral great-grandchildren, Waylon Home in Albemarle. Linda will Petrea, Harper Ward, Gavin be laid to rest during a private Myers, andservice GradyatMyers. committal Bethel United Methodist Church, Midland. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Bethel UMC, 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC 28107.
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Joyce Kimrey JOYCE BERLENE SMITH KIMREY, 88, of Albemarle passed away Saturday, September 26, 2020 in Stanly Manor. Her funeral will be 2 PM Tuesday Sept. 29 at Immanuel Baptist Church with Rev. Joe Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Stanly Gardens of Memory. The family will receive friends from 12 until 1:30 prior to the funeral service. Born July 25, 1932 in Stanly County, NC, she was the daughter of the late Willie C. Smith and Zora Whitley Smith. She was retired from Wiscassett Mills and was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church. She enjoyed attending North Stanly and Albemarle sporting events and she loved her church and her family. Mrs. Kimrey is survived by sons Danny Kimrey (Betty) and Johnny Kimrey (Kay) both of Albemarle, daughter Kelly Woods (Jeff) of New London, six grandchildren Leslie Eudy, Justin Kimrey, Landon Kimrey (Karen), Bray Kimrey, Tristan Furr (Sarah), Andrew Furr (Hillary), twelve great-grandchildren Nathan Crisco, Jaxon Kimrey, Kayden Efird, Hunter Holt, Madison Farinholt, Conner Eudy, Grace Reitzel, Tyson Kimrey, Anna Claire Kimrey, Riley Furr, Wyatt Furr, and Gage Furr.
CHARLES WAYNE RIDENHOUR, 68, of Richfield, passed away peacefully Thursday, September 24, 2020 at his home. Wayne was born October 28, 1951 in Stanly County to the late Charles Luther Ridenhour and Christine Ellis Culp Ridenhour. He is also preceded in death by his sister-in-law, Shirley Ridenhour; brother-in-law, Wayne Edwards; and father-in-law, Bobby Kirk. The family will receive friends from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Sunday, September 27, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Home of Albemarle. The funeral service to celebrate his life will follow at 3:00 pm in Hartsell Funeral Home’s Lefler Memorial Chapel, officiated by Rev. Richard Johnson. He is survived by his beloved wife of 38 years, Regina Kirk Ridenhour of the home; sons, Gerald Palmer, II, Britt (Connie) Palmer; sisters, Kaye (Robert) Goodman, Karen Edwards; brother, Roger Ridenhour; grandchildren, Jeremy Elkins, Michaela Palmer, Chesney Palmer; great-granddaughter, Aimee Elkins; mother-in-law, Bonnie Kirk; brother-in-laws, Doug (Donna) Kirk, Cammie (Michelle) Kirk; numerous nieces and nephews; and fur babies, Bruiser, Daisy, and Rowdy.
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Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee, is Scalia’s heir By Michael Tarm The Associated Press CHICAGO — Although Amy Coney Barrett is the president’s choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, for whom she once clerked, she is a committed Roman Catholic and a devotee of his favored interpretation of the Constitution known as originalism. Those qualifications delight many on the right but dismay liberals who fear her votes could result in the chipping away of some laws, especially the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. President Donald Trump nominated the 48-year-old federal court appellate judge from South Bend, Indiana, at a Rose Garden press conference Saturday. In remarks moments after Trump named her, with her husband and their seven children looking on, Barrett paid homage to Ginsburg. “I will be mindful of who came before me,” she said, citing Ginsburg’s career as a trailblazer for women’s rights. “She not only broke glass ceilings; she smashed them.” But Barrett also highlighted how she is, in her approach to the law, a polar opposite to Ginsburg. She said of Scalia: “His judicial philosophy is mine, too.” Her nomination sets Barrett on
the path to help conservatives hold sway over the court for decades. It’s as sure to energize the president’s base as it is to galvanize his foes heading to Election Day. Senate Republican leaders have said they have the votes to confirm her this year, likely before November’s election. Beyond the election, Barrett’s elevation could bring a national reckoning over abortion, an issue that has bitterly divided many Americans for almost half a century. The idea of overturning or gutting Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision, has been an animating political issue exploited by both sides. Her writings and speeches show a commitment to originalism, a concept that involves justices endeavoring to decipher original meanings of texts in assessing whether someone’s rights have been violated. Many liberals say that approach is too rigid and doesn’t allow the Constitution’s consequences to adjust to changing times. On abortion, questions have arisen about Barrett’s involvement in organizations that vigorously oppose it. But she has not said publicly she would, if given the chance, seek to scale back rights affirmed by the high court. Barrett has been a federal judge since 2017, when Trump nominated her to the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But as a longtime University of Notre Dame law professor, she had al-
“I will be mindful of who came before me. She not only broke glass ceilings; she smashed them” Amy Coney Barrett on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett listens as President Donald Trump announces Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C. ready established herself as a reliable conservative in Scalia’s mold. She gained a reputation as a Scalia clerk in the late 1990s as bright and adept at picking apart poorly reasoned arguments. Ara Lovitt, who clerked with her, recalled at her investiture ceremony for the 7th Circuit that Scalia had high praise for her. “’Isn’t Amy great,’” Lovitt remembers Scalia saying. Before becoming a judge, Barrett discussed how court precedents provide welcome stability in the law. But she seemed to leave the
door open to the possibility of reversing ones about which there remained sharp disagreement. “Once a precedent is deeply rooted,” a 2017 article in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, which Barrett co-wrote, said, “the Court is no longer required to deal with the question of the precedent’s correctness.” But it added: “None of this is to say that a Justice cannot attempt to overturn long-established precedent. While institutional features may hinder that effort, a Justice is free to try.”
Outrage over lockdowns motivates GOP campaigns By Paul J. Weber The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — When the coronavirus pandemic slammed the U.S. economy this spring, Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther became an overnight symbol of rebellion against lockdown measures, spending two days in a Texas jail for refusing to close her doors. Nearly $500,000 poured into a donation fund set up by conservative activists. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz got his hair cut at Luther’s salon. She flew to Michigan to rally with shutdown protesters and launched a run for the Texas Senate, hammering Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over virus restrictions. Her race in a deeply red and rural district is now a small test of what other Republican candidates nationwide are counting on with just five weeks before Election Day -- lingering voter resentment of lockdown orders to help boost them into office, at a time when President Donald Trump’s reelection may hinge on persuading voters that the worst is behind America. “I stood up for you, I went to jail
and I’ll do it again and again,” Luther told a room of voters this past week in a small town outside Fort Worth, in an event livestreamed on her Facebook page. Referring to Abbott, she said, “I’ll sleep on that man’s porch, bring the media until he opens up Texas.” With the U.S. death toll from the virus at more than 200,000 and counting, Trump is eager to frame his race against Democrat Joe Biden, the former vice president, on the Supreme Court vacancy and on an aggressive message of law and order in the aftermath of protests over racial injustice. But some GOP candidates, including Luther, want voters to remember the early weeks and months of closed restaurants and enforced lockdowns as the country is now slowly reopening and the unemployment rate is improving, though still high at 8.4%. In Minnesota, Republican Senate candidate Jason Lewis has made anger over coronavirus measures a cornerstone of an underdog challenge against Democratic incumbent Tina Smith, staking his hopes on bringing out voters in rural areas where momand-pop businesses were hit hard
“The lockdown has changed everything. The virus changed everything. And the angst that these draconian lockdowns imposed on Minnesota, especially in greater Minnesota but really all over the state, I believe was the game changer.” Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Jason Lewis by the shutdown. In the race for North Carolina governor, Republican challenger Dan Forest, the state’s lieutenant governor, has run hard against Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive orders on COVID-19 restrictions, saying he wants to replace “the current culture of fear with clear goals and a path forward.” A majority of Americans — 69% — say they are still at least somewhat worried about themselves or their family members
being infected with the virus, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Eighty-three percent of Democrats say they are at least somewhat concerned about the virus, compared with 55% of Republicans. There is skepticism that angst over lockdown measures is enough for GOP candidates to narrow the gap. When shutdown protests began in Ohio in April, a Columbus Dispatch photo of state Senate candidate Melissa Ackinson yelling through glass doors of the statehouse became one of the most widely shared images of demonstrations around the country. A few weeks later, she was defeated in her primary race. In Texas, where Democrats are running closer races than they have in a generation in a longtime GOP stronghold, GOP incumbents in battleground seats have focused on the recovery rather than rail against past lockdowns. “With every day that passes, people are getting back to normal. I think there was voter anger in July, but I don’t think it’s anywhere as considerable as it was then,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican consultant in Texas.
Barrett and her husband, Jesse Barrett, a former federal prosecutor, both graduated from Notre Dame Law School. Their seven children include two adopted from Haiti and one with special needs. Trump said Saturday that Barrett would be the first female justice to serve with small children. Looking at her kids in the front row, the president said: “Thank you for sharing your mom.” Barrett would be the only justice on the current court not to have received her law degree from an Ivy League school. The eight current justices all attended either Harvard or Yale. At Notre Dame, where Barrett began teaching at 30, she often invoked God in articles and speeches. In a 2006 address, she encouraged graduating law students to see their careers as a means to “building the kingdom of God.” Barrett was raised in New Orleans and was the eldest child of a Shell Oil Co. lawyer. She earned her undergraduate degree in English literature in 1994 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She also clerked for Laurence Silberman for a year at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Between clerkships and entering academia, she worked from 1999 to 2001 at a law firm in Washington, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin.
Luther, who did not respond to a request for an interview, is one of five candidates running in what is expected to be a low-turnout special election Tuesday to fill a seat vacated by a GOP legislator running for Congress. Her campaign received a $1 million loan from billionaire Texas oilman Tim Dunn, whose conservative group Empower Texans is one of the biggest political spenders in Texas politics and a critic of Abbott. In Minnesota, Lewis recently railed against coronavirus restrictions to a small crowd of a couple dozen supporters in Stillwater, which is one of the areas outside the Twin Cities where both he and Trump need to do well to flip what has become an unlikely battleground state. Trump narrowly lost Minnesota in 2016, and Lewis, a staunch supporter of the president, has made opposition to restrictions and face mask mandates a centerpiece of his campaign. He has sued Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, claiming that the restrictions on public gatherings have hindered his ability to campaign. “The lockdown has changed everything,” Lewis said. “The virus changed everything. And the angst that these draconian lockdowns imposed on Minnesota, especially in greater Minnesota but really all over the state, I believe was the game changer.”
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Twin City Herald Biden in Charlotte Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden arrives at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 23. The final stretch of a presidential campaign is typically a nonstop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline. But as the worst pandemic in a century bears down on the United States, Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach.
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WHAT’S HAPPENING Sheriff: 1 wounded in shooting at haunted house
Wake Forest optimistic for semester; Elon heightens alert The Associated Press
Rowan County One person was wounded in a shooting at a Halloween haunted house attraction on Saturday. Investigators arrested five juveniles and seized three guns after responding to a report of shots fired at the Reaper’s Realm haunted house in China Grove. Fights broke out among a crowd of about 1,000 people at the attraction. One person was treated at a hospital for a gunshot wound on one of his feet. Others were treated for injuries from the fighting.
AS ONE North Carolina university heightens its alert level in response to a surge in COVID-19 cases, another school expects its students will be able to remain on campus well into the fall. Elon University raised its alert level to high last week, after 52 positive tests among students were reported. Another eight positive tests among students were reported last week. In its announcement, Elon officials said the increase in new cases “has been mainly through close social interactions among indi-
viduals and small groups without wearing masks or proper distancing. There is no evidence that the surge in cases is due to large parties or to interactions in classrooms, campus facilities or dining halls.” Elon has taken a number of steps to slow the spread of COVID-19. Some in-person classes where significant numbers of students have tested positive will move online temporarily. All residence halls have been closed to visitors, and all students living in campus housing with shared bathrooms have been assigned to a specific bathroom. Elon University is 51 miles east
of Wake Forest University, where President Nathan Hatch sent a letter to faculty and staff last week, saying he found news of the school’s progress during the pandemic encouraging. “I believe that if the first four weeks are any indication, I am confident that we have the ability to remain on campus to Thanksgiving,” Hatch said. “Students want to be here, and we want them here.” Wake Forest will end in-person instruction on Thanksgiving as the weather turns colder and the cold and flu season begins. After the late November break, students will finish their fall semester classes remotely and take exams online
in mid-December. Wake Forest opened its fall semester last month with a mix of online, hybrid and face-to-face instruction. Hatch said Wake Forest is now planning for its spring semester that starts in January. Classes are scheduled to begin Jan. 11. As of last week, Wake Forest has reported 58 cases of COVID-19 over the past two weeks and 121 since mid-August, according to the university’s online dashboard. UNC Charlotte announced that it would resume in-person instruction on Oct. 1 in specific areas of study. The school said it would move to all online/remote classes following the Thanksgiving break, including all exams. UNCC Chancellor Sharon Gaber cited a continuing decline in the rate of COVID-19 infection in Mecklenburg County as well as the school’s safety protocols in making the decision.
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Churches hold drive-thru giveaway event Forsyth County Center Grove Church and Whole Man Ministries of North Carolina teamed up to help needy community members. Teams from the two churches held a drive-thru giveaway event that provided food, clothing, school supplies, as well as boxes of products from Amazon and WalMart. The goal was to help 1,000 people in the event, as well as bring local churches together and cross racial divides. WXII
Walkertown man arrested on 50 counts of sexual exploitation of a child Rowan County John Marvin Newsome, Jr., 37, of Walkertown was arrested and charged with more than 50 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. Officials received a tip that he was uploading and downloading child pornography. When they searched his home, they found 500 photos and 150 videos related to child pornography. Newsome was charged with 21 counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and 31 counts of thirddegree sexual exploitation of a minor. MY FOX 8
Sayers, Piccolo friendship lives on in ‘Brian’s Song’ The Associated Press When Chicago Bears teammates Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo became roommates in 1967, the first time NFL players of different colors shared accommodations on the road, it hardly looked like a good fit. Sayers, 24 at the time, was already an established star, a soft-spoken Black man who generally raised his voice only when matters of social justice were discussed. Piccolo, the same age, was white, an inveterate talker and joker who was competing with Sayers for playing time in the backfield after being undrafted and clambering from the taxi squad onto the game-day roster. But the enduring friendship that formed between the two became the subject of “Brian’s Song,” a 1971 made-for-TV movie that remains one of the most popular sports movies of all time. It rarely resonated more than it did last week, following Sayers’ death at age 77. “It just amazes me,” Joy Piccolo O’Connell said in an interview from her Wisconsin home. “It was 50 years ago.” The two grew close in 1968, when Piccolo unselfishly supported Sayers’ attempt to come back from the first of several knee injuries that eventually shortened his career. When Piccolo received a diagnosis of late-stage testicular
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From left are 1970 file photos showing Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. cancer the following year, Sayers unfailingly remained by his side. Piccolo lost his battle with the disease in 1970, less than a month after Sayers received the league’s George S. Halas Courage Award and gave the speech that became the centerpiece of the film: “He has the heart of a giant and that rare form of courage that allows him to kid himself and his opponent — cancer,” Sayers said at the awards dinner. “He has the mental attitude that makes me proud to have a friend who spells out the word ‘courage’ 24 hours a day, every day of his life. You flatter me by giving me this award, but I tell you that I accept it for Brian Piccolo. It is
mine tonight, it is Brian Piccolo’s tomorrow. … I love Brian Piccolo, and I’d like all of you to love him too. Tonight, when you hit your knees,” Sayers concluded, “please ask God to love him.” In 1967, hotel-room assignments were generally done by position and running back was the only slot on the Bears team where players of different colors would be thrown together. But then-general manager Ed McCaskey, a Halas family member who was running the club, gave the move his blessing — and with good reason. As a senior at Wake Forest, in a 1963 game against Maryland, Piccolo walked to the Terrapins sideline and brought Maryland
running back Darryl Hill — the only Black player in the league at the time — with him to the front of the student section. Then he threw an arm across Hill’s shoulders, silencing the crowd. But Joy Piccolo O’Connell, who has remarried, thinks the biggest obstacle to the friendship between Piccolo and Sayers had to more to do with personality than color. “Brian loved being with people, loved to talk and couldn’t do enough public speaking,” she said, “and Gale was so extremely quiet.” Indeed, Sayers said in a 2001 interview that Piccolo’s constant joking put him off at first. Piccolo, likewise, told biographer Jeannie Morris that he thought Sayers was “arrogant … I didn’t see him speak to a soul the whole week we were together.” From that rocky beginning, Sayers and Piccolo forged a bond strong enough to weather injury and illness and push back against the lazy assumption that men of different colors, from different backgrounds, couldn’t care about — and for — each other like brothers. “They showed the movie the other night,” Piccolo O’Connell said, “and we’ll get inquiries through the (Piccolo) foundation … “But it’s amazing,” she concluded “how the story continues and continues.”
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LAST WEEK, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87. Her death immediately initiated a political firestorm in Washington, D.C. — one that threatens the very integrity of the republic. That’s not because, as the media and Democrats would claim, some sort of institutional norm has been violated by a Republican president selecting a replacement for Ginsburg to be voted on by a Republican Senate. It’s because Democrats have declared that so long as they are unable to replace Ginsburg with an activist left-wing judge willing to use the Constitution to cram down liberal policy prescriptions, they will tear down every barrier to majoritarian tyranny. The Constitution was specifically constructed to promote gridlock. That’s because the Founding Fathers greatly feared majoritarian tyranny — legalized mob rule by which simple majorities could cram down violations of rights on minorities. To that end, they balanced the House of Representatives, which was popularly elected, and the Senate, which was represented by state and selected by state legislatures. They balanced the legislative branch with the executive and judicial branches. They balanced power between a federal structure and state governments. The founders believed that the greatest protection for individual rights lay in ambition checking ambition at every level. Progressives have, since the beginning of the 20th century, objected to this philosophy of government. Instead, they have seen institutional gridlock as a danger to “getting things done.” Former President Woodrow Wilson infamously explained that “Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals,” and that, therefore, there ought to be no institutional checks against governmental necessity. Democrats have faithfully carried forward that vision, checked only by political reality — Wilson unconstitutionally expanded the executive branch; Franklin Roosevelt infamously sought to pack the Supreme Court; Lyndon Johnson radically expanded the size and scope of the federal government; Barack Obama declared that the government itself “is us.”
That meant that for the political left, all institutions of government had to be converted into instruments of power or destroyed. The left has done just that with the Supreme Court for generations, viewing it as a repository for transformational change rather than a legal body with a mandate to only interpret honestly the words of the law. With that view of the court threatened by a Republican-appointed majority, Democrats are now panicking. They are responding with radical threats to break every check and balance. This week, Democrats openly threatened to destroy the Senate filibuster, a traditional mechanism for restraining bare majorities, most recently used by Democrats themselves to stymie COVID-19 relief funding. They also threatened to add new states to the union, specifically citing federal territories they believe will elect Democrats; and to pack the Supreme Court, reestablishing a Democratic-appointed majority by adding new seats. These actions aren’t merely violative of constitutional principles and the founding philosophy. They are dangerous. Imagine a 55vote Democratic majority in a 104-seat body, cramming through a gun confiscation measure, greenlit by a 13-member court packed by Democrats. Will red states simply acquiesce to this overt seizure of power, to this absurd rewriting of the constitutional bargain? Why should they? All of which means that the 2020 presidential race has now become a referendum on the Democrats, not President Donald Trump. Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s inherent campaign pledge was a return to stability, not a leap into revolution. But by threatening the institutional architecture, Biden’s campaign has become just that. Now Americans will be forced to choose between the vulgarity of Donald Trump — a vulgarity and boorishness, however off-putting, that has not threatened constitutional rights — and a vengeful Democratic Party threatening to remold the country from the top down. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.
DEATH NOTICES
♦ Donald Lee Bush, 75, of Stanleyville, died Sept. 26, 2020. ♦ Melvin Eugene Davis, 78, of Forsyth County, died Sept. 27, 2020. ♦ Willis “Ray” Douglas, 78, of King, died Sept. 25, 2020. ♦ Marie Ann Depknock Feudale, 96, of WinstonSalem, died Sept. 25, 2020. ♦ Jean “Marguerite” Gardner, 89, of WinstonSalem, died Sept. 26, 2020. ♦ Peggy Carol Patterson Henning, 81, of Lewisville, died Sept. 24, 2020. ♦ Christine Frances Parrish Johnson, 71, of Forsyth County, died Sept. 27, 2020. ♦ Ann Marie Pratt Keane, 64, of Winston-Salem, died Sept. 23, 2020. ♦ Betty Mayberry Mathis, 82, of Kernersville, died Sept. 27, 2020. ♦ C.B. McClain, Jr., 87, of Forsyth County, died Sept. 27, 2020. ♦ Carolyn Julia Wills McDaniel, 70, of Forsyth County, died Sept. 27, 2020. ♦ Jere Pearsall, 87, of Winston-Salem, died Sept. 26, 2020.
WEEKLY CRIME REPORT ♦ Atupem, Levon Amory (M/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 2) Ccw (M), and 3) Ccw (M), at 798 Nc 66 South/glenn St, Kernersville, NC, on 9/23/2020 11:00.
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♦ DRAPER, HARRY LEE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT - STRANGULATION at 1304 E FOURTH ST on 9/26/2020
♦ Boyd, Nanette Ann (F/47) Arrest on chrg of Assault-simple (M), at 4720 Merriweather Rd, Winstonsalem, NC, on 9/27/2020 16:36.
♦ Duolo, Eric (M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 2) Ccw (M), and 3) Ccw (M), at 798 Nc 66 South/ glenn St, Kernersville, NC, on 9/23/2020 11:00.
♦ JOYCE, TYLER LEE was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at NORTH POINT BV/ UNIVERSITY PW on 9/26/2020
♦ Sewell, Eric William (M/45) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugsposs Controlled Substancemethamphetamine>less Than 1 (M), 2) Ccw (M), 3) Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another (M), and 4) Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another State/ Indian Tribe (M), at Blythecliffwood, Kernersville, NC, on 9/28/2020 10:08.
♦ Burgess, Tina Marie (F/19) Arrest on chrg of 1) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 2) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 3) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 4) Ofafta-felony Larceny (M), 5) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 6) Ofa/fta-larceny After Break/ enter (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/28/2020 18:40.
♦ Eshak, Maryam Nasr (F/38) Arrest on chrg of Assaultsimple (M), at 4110 Kinnamon Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/28/2020 20:50.
♦ LEWIS, ANDREW GREGORY was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 199 GATEWAY CENTER DR/ PINEVIEW DR on 9/26/2020
♦ GADSON, SHAQUAN DAMONTE was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 2800 PIEDMONT CR on 9/26/2020
♦ MAIN, SCOTT WILLIAM was arrested on a charge of PROBATION VIOLATION at 4754 KIRK RD on 9/26/2020
♦ CONRAD, KENNETH ADAM was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 3600 OAK FOREST DR on 9/26/2020
♦ GRAY, KEENAN SCOTT was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT - INFLICTING SERIOUS BODILY INJURY at 1000 HUTTON ST on 9/26/2020
♦ Cornwell, Joel Douglas (M/56) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F) and 2) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked (M), at 5198 Reidsville Rd/old Hollow Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 9/24/2020 21:27.
♦ Hailey, Frankie Dillion (M/21) Arrest on chrg of 1) Affray (M) and 2) Communicate Threats (M), at 118 E Third St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/23/2020 15:47.
♦ CRUMP, RONALD CURTIS was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT - INFLICTING SERIOUS BODILY INJURY at 1205 HUTTON ST on 9/27/2020
♦ Emma Lee Scott Penn, 94, of Winston-Salem, died Sept. 23, 2020.
♦ Davis, Dimani Paul (M/28) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 2) Weapposs By Felon (F), and 3) Ccw (M), at 930 S Main St, Kernersville, NC, on 9/24/2020 14:30.
♦ Dawn Marie (House) Prince, 51, of WinstonSalem, died Sept. 24, 2020.
♦ DAVIS, TYNAYSHA JADA was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT SIMPLE at 100 W FIFTH ST on 9/27/2020
♦ Christopher “Chris” Michael Thum, 32, of Winston Salem, died Sept. 23, 2020.
♦ Douthit, James Haywood (M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugs-poss Controlled Substancemethamphetamine>less Than 1 (F), 2) Drugs-misd Poss (M), and 3) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 4550 Effie Ln, Walkertown, NC, on
♦ Flora Foley Wheeler, 100, of Clemmons, died Sept. 25, 2020.
♦ HAIRSTON, TERRANCE TERRELL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT SIMPLE at 3610 BADEN RD on 9/26/2020 ♦ Haughton, Ashley Nicole (F/30) Arrest on chrg of 1) Affray (M) and 2) Affray (M), at 2918 Fraternity Church Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/25/2020 03:57.
♦ Key, James Dymott (M/45) Arrest on chrg of Rioting, M (M), at 1139 Old Hollow Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/26/2020 04:17.
♦ Martin, Carl Jasper (M/40) Arrest on chrg of Probation Violation, M (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/26/2020 17:03. ♦ MCDOWELL, ANDRE GERODE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 168 N HAWTHORNE RD on 9/26/2020 ♦ Miller, Lajeffrey Demarcocroskey (M/30) Arrest on chrg of Drugs-poss Sched Iii, M (M), at Sb 52/waughtown St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/27/2020 09:30. ♦ Nuah, Bob (M/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 2) Ccw (M), and 3) Ccw (M), at 66 South/ Glenn St, Winston Salem, NC, on 9/23/2020 11:00.
♦ HESS, MICHAEL AARON was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 5939 UNIVERSITY PW/ SUMMIT SQUARE BV on 9/26/2020
♦ Pardue, Bradley Satterfield (M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault-simple (M) and 2) Sex Offender Unlawfully On Premises. (F), at 5115 Main St, Walkertown, NC, on 9/26/2020 09:06.
♦ Jeffersontobias, Mashica Quinte (F/55) Arrest on chrg of Assault-simple, M (M), at 188 Huron Ct, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/23/2020 11:25.
♦ PRICE, FRED HUGH was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 3850 HUNTINGREEN LN on 9/27/2020
♦ JOHNSON, WILLIAM was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 2001 S MAIN ST on
♦ RAIFORD, COREY DONTE was arrested on a charge of POSS COCAINE FEL at 1800 E TWELFTH ST on
♦ Slate, Landon Michael (M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking/larc-felony (F) and 2) Larceny After B&e (F), at 201 N Church St, Winstonsalem, NC, on 9/25/2020 21:20. ♦ Stanley, Jeffrey Tyler (M/31) Arrest on chrg of Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another State/ Indian Tribe, (M), at 301 Medical Center Bv, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/25/2020 13:26. ♦ TAYLOR, TAVON DEMARIS was arrested on a charge of KIDNAPPING at 101 FLINTWOOD CT on 9/26/2020 ♦ TILLEY, MANDY RANEE was arrested on a charge of PROBATION VIOLATION at 2022 S BROAD ST on 9/26/2020 ♦ Velasquez, Emmanuel Arturo (M/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Impaired Driving Dwi (M) and 2) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked (M), at 6750 Shallowford Rd, Lewisville, NC, on 9/26/2020 23:20. ♦ Willard, Christopher Daniel (M/27) Arrest on chrg of 1) Adw - Inflict Injury (M) and 2) Adw - Inflict Injury (M), at 1251 Chevelle Ln, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/28/2020 19:28. ♦ WILSON, TAHLIA LEIGH was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 2613 REED ST on 9/26/2020 ♦ YOUNG, COURTNEY RENEE was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 6600 SILAS CREEK PW on 9/27/2020
Twin City Herald for Wednesday, September 30, 2020
SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Dozens affected by Notre Dame outbreak South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame said it had 39 football players in isolation or quarantine on Monday as it deals with the COVID-19 outbreak that forced the Fighting Irish to postpone last week’s game at Wake Forest. The Fighting Irish already had an open date scheduled for this week and are not slated to play again until Oct. 10 when Florida State travels to South Bend. In a news release, Notre Dame said 18 football players tested positive last week, seven of which had already been quarantined after contact tracing had determined they had been exposed to people who had already been infected. A total of 25 players were in isolation after testing positive and another 14 were being quarantined after contact tracing, the school said.
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Lots of unfamiliar territory in 2020 baseball playoffs The shortened 60-game schedule means several teams will be playing each other for the first time By Jay Cohen The Associated Press CHICAGO — Mookie Betts, meet Devin Williams and his devastating changeup. Aaron Judge, take a closer look at a much improved Shane Bieber. Fernando Tatis Jr., say hello to Jack Flaherty. Welcome to the first round of the 2020 playoffs, a class with an unusual amount of homework — and precious little room for error. After the pandemic-shortened regular season was limited to regional play, seven of the eight wild-
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card series involve teams that haven’t played any meaningful games against each other since last year. The one exception is Blake Snell and Tampa Bay taking on Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Toronto in an all-AL East matchup. “It’s like the old days, man, when you played a team you’ve never played before. It’s exactly what it is,” said Sandy Alomar Jr., the acting manager for the Indians. “It’s very strange.” That meant a lot of video and scouting work before the AL playoffs began Tuesday and the NL postseason starts Wednesday. And the advance reports might be a tick or two off after scouts were shut out of ballparks this year because of COVID-19 protocols. Factor in the format — it’s a
best-of-three series in the first round, compared to best of five in the division series and best of seven in the final two rounds — and the wild-card round might be a more apt description than Major League Baseball had intended. “Any mistake can be a total mess for either team,” Twins slugger Nelson Cruz said. “Every pitch will be critical.” Betts and the Dodgers rolled to baseball’s best record this year at 43-17, three games better than the Rays. But they get to walk the same thin line as everybody else in opening series of their eighth consecutive playoff appearance. While Los Angeles brings a deep lineup and pitching staff into its matchup with Milwaukee, which squeaked into the field on the final day of the season, the Brewers can call on Williams at a big moment in a tight game. The 26-year-old Williams, one of the favorites for NL Rookie of the Year, allowed one earned run and struck out 53 in 27 innings this year. Milwaukee also has Josh Hader in its bullpen, perhaps the only area where it might have an advantage over the NL West champions. The Yankees and Indians ha-
“It’s like the old days, man, when you played a team you’ve never played before.” Sandy Alomar Jr., acting Indians manager ven’t played against each other since last August, and their powerful lineups face quite the challenge in Game 1 of their wild-card series. Bieber, the ace of the Indians and the favorite for the AL Cy Young Award, versus Gerrit Cole, the $324 million right-hander for the Yankees. San Diego is making its first playoff appearance since 2006. Up next for the Padres is St. Louis, which lost to Washington in the NLCS last year. The series opener could put Tatis in the same game with Flaherty for only the second time. The 21-year-old Tatis singled and struck out in two at-bats against Flaherty during the Padres’ 5-3 victory at St. Louis on April 5, 2019.
NASCAR
NASCAR fines Hendrick $100,000 for too much wind tunnel time Charlotte Hendrick Motorsports was fined $100,000 on Thursday for exceeding the amount of wind tunnel testing allowed in a year. NASCAR also docked the organization 10 hours of wind tunnel time for next year. An organization is allowed a maximum of 70 hours in 2020 and 90 hours in 2021. The testing is defined as billable hours reported by the wind tunnel. Hendrick Motorsports selfreported the violation after discovering it had exceeded 70 hours by “less than an hour,” the team said. Hendrick will not appeal the penalty.
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Fernando Tatis Jr. and the upstart San Diego Padres are some of the new faces that will play in the Major League Baseball postseason.
LeMahieu, Soto batting champs in shortest season in century
Kurt Busch finally wins at home track, advances to Round of 8
New York DJ LeMahieu became the first player to win undisputed batting titles in both leagues and Juan Soto the youngest NL champion as Major League Baseball’s shortest regular season since 1878 ended Sunday. LeMahieu hit .364 for the New York Yankees, the highest for an AL batting champion since Minnesota’s Joe Mauer hit .365 in 2009. He won the NL batting title with Colorado in 2016. Soto batted .351 for Washington and at 21 years, 11 months, 2 days became the youngest NL batting champion. He surpassed Pete Reiser, who was 22 years, 195 days when he won for Brooklyn in 1941.
NFL
Belichick reaches milestone in Patriots’ win Foxborough, Mass. Bill Belichick joined George Halas (318) and Don Shula (328) as the only coaches in NFL history to reach 275 regular-season victories after the New England Patriots defeated the Las Vegas Raiders 3620 on Sunday. The Patriots have won the last six meetings with the Raiders and improved to 47-9 in regular-season games following a loss. Raiders coach Jon Gruden dropped to 0-3 against Belichick.
The Las Vegas native won in his 22nd try at the track By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Two decades of heartbreak at his home track finally ended for Kurt Busch when a little bit of luck fell his way at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Busch happened to be the leader when a late caution Sunday night jumbled the field and put him in control of his 0-for-21 losing streak in his hometown. He had three magnificent restarts, including one in overtime, to steal a vital playoff race. The good timing helped Busch sneak his way into the third round of the NASCAR Cup playoffs. He had been ranked last among the 12 title contenders before the race; now he’s guaranteed a slot in the round of eight. “This is 20 years of agony and defeat and today triumph,” Busch said. “I don’t know if I have any gas left or if I just filled my tank up to go win every race. This is my hometown and I have so many people to thank and I know they are watching on television so proud of their hometown driver.” The win, the first of the season for the 2004 Cup champion, was celebrated alongside younger brother, Kyle. The reigning NASCAR champion slammed doors with his big brother on the cooldown lap. Busch then took the checkered flag to the finish line and smacked it on each of the letters in Las Vegas. “This is what kids dream of when they grow up racing. You dream of winning at your home-
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Kurt Busch celebrates after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at his hometown track in Las Vegas. town track,” said Busch, “and for two decades it’s kicked my butt.” It was the first win of the year for Chip Ganassi Racing and the first in the playoffs for a Chevrolet driver. Busch happened to be the leader during a round of green flag pit stops interrupted with 32 laps remaining by just the fifth caution of the race. It cycled him to the lead for the ensuing restart and he had an incredible jump to control the front. Busch did it two more times, including a final restart in overtime,
to deny the challengers any shot at catching him. Matt DiBenedetto, eliminated from the playoffs last weekend, finished second in a Ford for Wood Brothers Racing in his best finish of the season. Denny Hamlin dominated the race until the cautions jumbled the finish but rallied to finish third in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. He first gambled to pit for new tires to give him a shot to work through traffic, then chose the top lane in the overtime shootout in a mad scramble to catch Busch.
Hamlin led 121 of the 268 laps. “By far the best car I’ve had in Las Vegas in a long time,” Hamlin said. “Really encouraged by the way we ran, but very disappointed that we didn’t get a win. It’s just been the way the playoffs have gone. Whoever stays out the longest puts themselves in a great spot to win.” Martin Truex Jr., another Gibbs driver, was fourth and followed by Alex Bowman in Chevrolet and Gibbs driver Kyle Busch, who is 0-for-30 this Cup season as he seeks a second consecutive title.
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STATE & NATION
Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee, is Scalia’s heir By Michael Tarm The Associated Press CHICAGO — Although Amy Coney Barrett is the president’s choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, for whom she once clerked, she is a committed Roman Catholic and a devotee of his favored interpretation of the Constitution known as originalism. Those qualifications delight many on the right but dismay liberals who fear her votes could result in the chipping away of some laws, especially the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. President Donald Trump nominated the 48-year-old federal court appellate judge from South Bend, Indiana, at a Rose Garden press conference Saturday. In remarks moments after Trump named her, with her husband and their seven children looking on, Barrett paid homage to Ginsburg. “I will be mindful of who came before me,” she said, citing Ginsburg’s career as a trailblazer for women’s rights. “She not only broke glass ceilings; she smashed them.” But Barrett also highlighted how she is, in her approach to the law, a polar opposite to Ginsburg. She said of Scalia: “His judicial philosophy is mine, too.” Her nomination sets Barrett on
the path to help conservatives hold sway over the court for decades. It’s as sure to energize the president’s base as it is to galvanize his foes heading to Election Day. Senate Republican leaders have said they have the votes to confirm her this year, likely before November’s election. Beyond the election, Barrett’s elevation could bring a national reckoning over abortion, an issue that has bitterly divided many Americans for almost half a century. The idea of overturning or gutting Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision, has been an animating political issue exploited by both sides. Her writings and speeches show a commitment to originalism, a concept that involves justices endeavoring to decipher original meanings of texts in assessing whether someone’s rights have been violated. Many liberals say that approach is too rigid and doesn’t allow the Constitution’s consequences to adjust to changing times. On abortion, questions have arisen about Barrett’s involvement in organizations that vigorously oppose it. But she has not said publicly she would, if given the chance, seek to scale back rights affirmed by the high court. Barrett has been a federal judge since 2017, when Trump nominated her to the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But as a longtime University of Notre Dame law professor, she had al-
“I will be mindful of who came before me. She not only broke glass ceilings; she smashed them” Amy Coney Barrett on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett listens as President Donald Trump announces Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C. ready established herself as a reliable conservative in Scalia’s mold. She gained a reputation as a Scalia clerk in the late 1990s as bright and adept at picking apart poorly reasoned arguments. Ara Lovitt, who clerked with her, recalled at her investiture ceremony for the 7th Circuit that Scalia had high praise for her. “’Isn’t Amy great,’” Lovitt remembers Scalia saying. Before becoming a judge, Barrett discussed how court precedents provide welcome stability in the law. But she seemed to leave the
door open to the possibility of reversing ones about which there remained sharp disagreement. “Once a precedent is deeply rooted,” a 2017 article in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, which Barrett co-wrote, said, “the Court is no longer required to deal with the question of the precedent’s correctness.” But it added: “None of this is to say that a Justice cannot attempt to overturn long-established precedent. While institutional features may hinder that effort, a Justice is free to try.”
Outrage over lockdowns motivate GOP campaigns By Paul J. Weber The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — When the coronavirus pandemic slammed the U.S. economy this spring, Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther became an overnight symbol of rebellion against lockdown measures, spending two days in a Texas jail for refusing to close her doors. Nearly $500,000 poured into a donation fund set up by conservative activists. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz got his hair cut at Luther’s salon. She flew to Michigan to rally with shutdown protesters and launched a run for the Texas Senate, hammering Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over virus restrictions. Her race in a deeply red and rural district is now a small test of what other Republican candidates nationwide are counting on with just five weeks before Election Day -- lingering voter resentment of lockdown orders to help boost them into office, at a time when President Donald Trump’s reelection may hinge on persuading voters that the worst is behind America. “I stood up for you, I went to jail
and I’ll do it again and again,” Luther told a room of voters this past week in a small town outside Fort Worth, in an event livestreamed on her Facebook page. Referring to Abbott, she said, “I’ll sleep on that man’s porch, bring the media until he opens up Texas.” With the U.S. death toll from the virus at more than 200,000 and counting, Trump is eager to frame his race against Democrat Joe Biden, the former vice president, on the Supreme Court vacancy and on an aggressive message of law and order in the aftermath of protests over racial injustice. But some GOP candidates, including Luther, want voters to remember the early weeks and months of closed restaurants and enforced lockdowns as the country is now slowly reopening and the unemployment rate is improving, though still high at 8.4%. In Minnesota, Republican Senate candidate Jason Lewis has made anger over coronavirus measures a cornerstone of an underdog challenge against Democratic incumbent Tina Smith, staking his hopes on bringing out voters in rural areas where momand-pop businesses were hit hard
“The lockdown has changed everything. The virus changed everything. And the angst that these draconian lockdowns imposed on Minnesota, especially in greater Minnesota but really all over the state, I believe was the game changer.” Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Jason Lewis by the shutdown. In the race for North Carolina governor, Republican challenger Dan Forest, the state’s lieutenant governor, has run hard against Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive orders on COVID-19 restrictions, saying he wants to replace “the current culture of fear with clear goals and a path forward.” A majority of Americans — 69% — say they are still at least somewhat worried about themselves or their family members
being infected with the virus, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Eighty-three percent of Democrats say they are at least somewhat concerned about the virus, compared with 55% of Republicans. There is skepticism that angst over lockdown measures is enough for GOP candidates to narrow the gap. When shutdown protests began in Ohio in April, a Columbus Dispatch photo of state Senate candidate Melissa Ackinson yelling through glass doors of the statehouse became one of the most widely shared images of demonstrations around the country. A few weeks later, she was defeated in her primary race. In Texas, where Democrats are running closer races than they have in a generation in a longtime GOP stronghold, GOP incumbents in battleground seats have focused on the recovery rather than rail against past lockdowns. “With every day that passes, people are getting back to normal. I think there was voter anger in July, but I don’t think it’s anywhere as considerable as it was then,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican consultant in Texas.
Barrett and her husband, Jesse Barrett, a former federal prosecutor, both graduated from Notre Dame Law School. Their seven children include two adopted from Haiti and one with special needs. Trump said Saturday that Barrett would be the first female justice to serve with small children. Looking at her kids in the front row, the president said: “Thank you for sharing your mom.” Barrett would be the only justice on the current court not to have received her law degree from an Ivy League school. The eight current justices all attended either Harvard or Yale. At Notre Dame, where Barrett began teaching at 30, she often invoked God in articles and speeches. In a 2006 address, she encouraged graduating law students to see their careers as a means to “building the kingdom of God.” Barrett was raised in New Orleans and was the eldest child of a Shell Oil Co. lawyer. She earned her undergraduate degree in English literature in 1994 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She also clerked for Laurence Silberman for a year at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Between clerkships and entering academia, she worked from 1999 to 2001 at a law firm in Washington, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin.
Luther, who did not respond to a request for an interview, is one of five candidates running in what is expected to be a low-turnout special election Tuesday to fill a seat vacated by a GOP legislator running for Congress. Her campaign received a $1 million loan from billionaire Texas oilman Tim Dunn, whose conservative group Empower Texans is one of the biggest political spenders in Texas politics and a critic of Abbott. In Minnesota, Lewis recently railed against coronavirus restrictions to a small crowd of a couple dozen supporters in Stillwater, which is one of the areas outside the Twin Cities where both he and Trump need to do well to flip what has become an unlikely battleground state. Trump narrowly lost Minnesota in 2016, and Lewis, a staunch supporter of the president, has made opposition to restrictions and face mask mandates a centerpiece of his campaign. He has sued Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, claiming that the restrictions on public gatherings have hindered his ability to campaign. “The lockdown has changed everything,” Lewis said. “The virus changed everything. And the angst that these draconian lockdowns imposed on Minnesota, especially in greater Minnesota but really all over the state, I believe was the game changer.”