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NSJ STAFF New York scraps word ‘inmate’ in state law Albany, N.Y. New York has amended several state laws to remove the word “inmate” and replace it with “incarcerated person” to refer to people serving prison time. The changes, signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul, are intended to reduce the stigma of being in jail. Prisoners say it can feel degrading when jail guards refer to them as inmates, especially in front of their families during inpersonRepublicansvisits. ridiculed the measure as coddling criminals.“Parading around a bill that removes the word ‘inmate’ from legal materials at a time when crime continues to spike at an alarming rate shows you a lot about how misguided the Democrats’ agenda is,” said Republican Assemblymember Chris Tague.
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Notably, Hancock was one of the lawyers who kicked off the long-running Leandro case that originated in 1994 in the Hoke County school district. Years prior, then-Hoke County Superintendent Bill Harrison recruited Robb Lean dro to serve as the case’s lead plain tiff in the suit Hancock was pre paring. At that time, Hancock was an attorney with the Low Wealth Schools Consortium, a group of high-poverty school systems in the state. Hancock’s suit ended up bringing together superintendents from four North Carolina counties in an effort to sue the state for not meeting financial obligations to stu dents in those districts. Other organizations Everett Gaskins and Hancock list among its “community” page include the Advisory Committee to the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and the North Carolina Common Cause Board of Directors. The firm also represented cur rent Gov. Roy Cooper when he was the state’s attorney general in a 2009 case involving the “Dogwood Gun Club” and a biannual pigeon shoot.McColl was hired into the firm as part of its education practice group. Prior to joining Everett Gas kins Hancock, McColl was general counsel for the N.C. Association of Educators, an offshoot of the Na tional Education Association, one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions. She also served as legislative di rector of the State Board of Educa tion, as well as legal counsel to both the North Carolina Association of School Administrators and the North Carolina School Superinten dents Association. In the fairly recent past, McColl was notably involved with the Hali fax County School District Board of Education in a case about reinstate ment of the contract for a former su perintendent, Dr. Elease Frederick, whom McColl represented. An investigation by North State Journal into TIP, uncovered the group funds itself in part through taxpayer dollars by charging public school districts a membership fee. Some 33 districts were identi fied as having ties to TIP and North State Journal found that 29 of those districts made payments to TIP to taling $2,048,800 million for the time period spanning 2017 through 2021.
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In addition to TIP, Hancock also founded the education website Ed ucationNC along with Ferrel Guil lory, who is the director of the Pro gram in Public Life and Professor of the Practice at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and serves as vice chairman of Ed ucationNC.According to the Everett Gaskins Hancock website, “The firm’s at torneys have been instrumental in the formation of notable nonprofit organizations such as the Public School Forum of North Carolina, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, and EducationNC, and have successfully advocated on behalf of North Carolina’s Low Wealth Schools Consortium for the en forcement of every child’s right to a sound, basic education.” The firm’s website does not list The Innovation Project among its achievements but does say that one of their attorney’s was the founding chair of the over 30-year-old Public School Forum of North Carolina, an education nonprofit that says its “key purpose” has been to “speak truth to power.” The attorney in volved was Hancock, who at that time was senator in the North Car olina General Assembly. The Public School Forum’s mission is to “provide trusted, nonpartisan, evidence-based re search, policy analysis and inno vative programs that empower an informed public to demand that education best practice becomes common practice throughout NorthSimilarCarolina.”toTIP, the NC Public School Forum’s “about page” notes it also received its seed money from the left-leaning Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arizona won’t wait for feds, starts filling border wall gaps Phoenix Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the Biden administration to block off the “Thearea.federal government has committed to doing this, but we cannot wait for their action,” said Katie Ratlief, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s deputy chief of staff. Despite the federal promise to fill the gaps, Arizona officials said no action had been taken aside from an early bid process.
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RALEIGH — U.S. Rep. Ted Budd (NC-13), the Republican nominee for North Carolina’s closely watched U.S. Senate seat, launched his first TV ad ahead of the Nov. 8 general election on Friday, Aug. 12. The ad, shared exclusively with North State Journal before it began airing, is titled “A Tale of TwoTheCarts.”adis focused on the na tion’s 40-year highs in inflation rates and rising prices affecting North Carolina families. “Two years ago, most fami lies could afford to fill this up. But now it’s more like this,” Budd says, gesturing at two grocery carts: one filled to the top and the other contain ing significantly fewer items. “You’re being forced to make hard choices because Joe Biden made bad decisions. Biden’s reckless spending gave us re cord inflation that’s crushing workingBudd’sfamilies.”statement is backed up by rapid price increases over the past 12 months. In Ju ly’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Consumer Price Index report, food prices are up 13.1% nationwide.Thereport stated that the 12-month increase was the “largest since the period end ing March 1979.” The report also went on to add that the index for cereals and bakery products increased 15% and the remaining major grocery store food groups posted increases ranging from 9.3% (fruits and vegetables) to 14.9% (dairy and related products). “The cost of basic grocery staples like eggs and cereal are through the roof. Tough choices for working families due to the inflation caused by Joe Biden’s bad decisions, now embraced Budd launches first general election ad, focused on economy
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Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022.
Raleigh The North Carolina State Fair returns to the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh Oct. 13 - 23, and fairgoers can save money on admission and rides by purchasing tickets online in “Buyingadvance.in advance can save you up to 45% off prices compared to buying when you arrive at the fair,” said Kent Yelverton, state fair manager. Advance tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for youth ages 6 to 12 and $5 for senior adults ages 65 and over. Ride wristbands are $30 per wristband or a sheet of 18 ride tickets is $10. Discounted advance tickets are available Aug. 15 through Oct. 13.
By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — A secretive edu cation nonprofit with stated “equi ty” objectives and that funds itself in part through membership dues paid for by school districts across the state using taxpayer dollars was formed as a project of a Raleigh law firm.The Innovation Project (TIP) “formally began on July 1, 2015,” according to the group’s website. The organization was co-founded by Gerry Hancock and Ann McColl as “a service of the Raleigh law firm, Everett Gaskins Hancock LLP.”
Greensboro American Airlines has agreed to purchase 20 supersonic Overture planes from Boom Supersonic, the companies announced Tuesday.Thedeal is the second firm order in the last two years for Boom. United Airlines made a commitment last year to buy 15 Overture jets, reported CNBC.“Passengers want flights that are faster, more convenient, more sustainable and that’s what Overture delivers,” Boom CEO Blake Scholl told the business network.Theairline also has the option to purchase another 40 Overtures in the future. Boom selected Greensboro to build its manufacturing plant for the planes. The company is targeting 2025 to roll out the new model with commercial service beginning by the end of the decade.
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MONDAY MARKED one year since the Taliban seized the Afghan capital of Kabul, signal ing a swift transformation of a country the United States spent two decades and over $2 trillion attempting to make a function ingInstead,democracy.Taliban fighters celebrated the anniversary by hoisting rifles, riding military vehicles through streets,and taunting the site of the former U.S.PresidentEmbassy.Joe Biden and his administration seemed wholly unprepared for the moment. Biden had insisted it was a scene that wouldn’t happen in the months leading up to the military withdrawal. In com ments from the White House and in media appearances, he boasted of the work that had gone into training the Afghan army and praised then-Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. In ex cerpts from a July 23, 2021, phone call between the two leaders, Biden told Ghani he needed to “change perception” on the Taliban’s accelerating gains.“You clearly have the best mil itary,” he told Ghani on the call, as reported by Reuters. “You have 300,000 well-armed forc es versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well.”
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AFGHANISTAN from page A1 THE WORD: NO, KEEP IT. In 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Paul tells of a wonderful experience which he had. He had some great suffering which he called “a thorn in the flesh.” He does not say what it was — but evidently it was some physical pain, some think epilepsy, some think a trouble with the eyes, some think a nervous affection. No matter what it was, it was very painful and seemed to interfere with the apostle’s usefulness. Three times, therefore, he besought the Lord that this thorn in the flesh might be taken away. But the answer was, “No — keep it. My grace is sufficient for you — for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Then Paul learned this wonderful secret — that the physical suffering which was so hard to bear, if accepted by him, brought him a corresponding measure of the strength of Christ! As you read on, you find the apostle saying that he now rejoiced in his infirmity, because the power of Christ thus rested upon him. That is, the suffering, as keen and terrible as it was — brought Christ nearer to him, brought more of Christ’s strength into his life, and thus fitted him for larger spiritual usefulness! You can apply this to yourself. You have asked God to remove your thorn in the flesh — and He has not done it. But let me assure you that the words which the Lord spoke to Paul — He speaks to you also. His grace is sufficient for you. His strength is made perfect in your weakness. That is, you will get more of Christ’s help in your life, because of the suffering which you are enduring, than if the suffering were to be taken away — you then receiving less of Christ’s help, because needing less. J.R. Miller was a pastor and former editorial superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication from 1880 to 1911. His works are now in the public domain.
The launch of the statewide ad buy comes as Budd also land ed endorsements from former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the North Carolina Troopers Association. In a statement, Pompeo said, “Under Joe Biden, the world is less stable, and our borders are not secure. Ted Budd will be an important vote to stop Joe Biden’s progressive agenda that is weakening our country and hurting North Carolinians while his opponent, Cheri Bea sley, will be a rubber stamp for it.”That sentiment was echoed by the NCTA, who called Budd the candidate who will best support law enforcement in the U.S.TheSenate.NCTA had previously en dorsed Cheri Beasley in three of her past statewide campaigns. “Ted Budd knows the dangers faced by the men and women serving in law enforcement, Opioid abuse is devastating our communities. When fentanyl is smuggled across our southern border, it can be in North Car olina in less than 72 hours and it’s our officers having to con front these violent criminals as they transport these danger ous drugs into North Carolina. With violent crime at an alltime high, it is imperative we have a U.S. Senator who will support law enforcement,” said NCTA President Ben Kral. The NCTA represents more than 2,500 active and retired members of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. “If Biden followers like Cheri Beasley are elected, crime won’t stop knocking at voters’ doors. This endorsement is in support of a candidate who will make sure that it does,” said RNC spokeswoman Taylor Mazock of the NCTA endorsement.
A2 WEDNESDAY 8.17.22 #347 “Variety Vacationland” Visit us online nsjonline.com North State Journal (USPS 20451) (ISSN 2471-1365) Neal Robbins Publisher Matt Mercer Editor in Chief Cory Lavalette Managing/Sports Editor Frank Hill Senior Opinion Editor Emily Roberson Business/Features Editor Lauren Rose Design Editor Published each Wednesday by North State Journal 1201 Edwards Mill Rd. Suite Raleigh,300NC 27607 TO SUBSCRIBE: 704-269-8461 or online at nsjonline.com Annual Subscription Price: $50.00 Periodicals Postage Paid at Raleigh, N.C. and at additional mailing offices. SendPOSTMASTER:addresschanges to: North State Journal 1201 Edwards Mill Rd. Suite Raleigh,300NC 27607 North State Journal for Wednesday, August 17, 2022 BUDD from page A1 Days later, the Afghan mili tary started folding across pro vincial capitals in the country with little fight against the Tal iban, the news outlet said. In news that would become emblematic of the problems ahead, U.S. troops left Bagram Air Base, its massive base in the country, without notifying the Afghans. Bagram also contained a prison where 5,000 Taliban fighters would soon be freed. A BBC report stated, “The Americans left behind about 3.5 million items,” Afghan Gen. Asadullah Kohistani said, in cluding tens of thousands of bottles of water, energy drinks and military ready-made meals, known as MREs. They also left behind thousands of civilian vehicles, without keys, and hun dreds of armored vehicles. The scenes witnessed by the world became increasingly dire in the run up to Aug. 15 as city after city fell to Taliban control. It was Kabul’s turn. Thousands of Afghans rushed Kabul International Airport amid the chaos as it became clear the Taliban were going to assume full control of the coun try. Millions watched as the air port was nearly overrun with men, women and children, some of whom clung to U.S. military aircraft as they took off — know ing they were falling to their death.Many of those left behind had worked with U.S. and NATO troops and were certain to face repercussions. Many former military members worked with members of Congress and other organizations to get interpret ers and their families out of the country.North Carolina Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis collabo rated with one such group, Save Our Allies, to get an interpreter who worked with the 82nd Air borne and his family out of the country and resettled them in the Union County town of Wed dington. Save Our Allies says they’ve helped more than 12,000 Afghans escape. The group even received funding from the North Carolina state budget to advance theirSoonwork.thereafter, another trag edy would strike. On Aug. 28, 13 American mil itary service members and 60 Afghans were killed during a suicide attack at the Kabul air port. The group ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack. A minority report from the U.S. Senate Committee on For eign Relations published in Feb ruary 2022 laid the blame at the feet of Biden and his adminis tration:One of the most important roles of the U.S. government is for the protection of American citizens overseas. The Biden Ad ministration failed to properly plan for an evacuation despite countless warning signs that a Taliban takeover was imminent. The U.S. government failed to even account for the number of people who would need to be evacuated, let alone for how this evacuation would occur. The Biden Administration ignored numerous intelligence reports about the potential for a speedy Taliban takeover of Ka bul, decided to abandon Bagram Air Base, disregarded dissent cables from the State Depart ment (State), failed to plan an evacuation until it was too late, and in the process, abandoned tens of thousands of Afghan partners. The administration did not make a decision on evac uations from Afghanistan un til a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting on August 14, mere hours before the fall of Kabul. When the decision to evac uate was belatedly made, the evacuation effort was severely hampered by the earlier decision to close Bagram Air Base. This air base would have improved the ability for evacuations to take place and its abandonment allowed for the release of thou sands of extremists, including one who participated in the ter rorist attack which killed 13 U.S. serviceFrommembers.August15 to August 31, the United States completed its largest air evacuation. However, this evacuation was marred by a lack of planning, coordination, and communication. The Unit ed States failed to establish a clear system of how to contact evacuees and processes to allow them into the airport. The re sult left American citizens, U.S. legal permanent residents, and Afghan allies abandoned to the fate of the Taliban regime. A defiant Biden turned to ABC News later in August 2021, sitting for a one-on-one inter view about the evacuation and its impact. In the interview, he declined to acknowledge any mistakes.“No,I don’t think it could have been handled in a way that, we’re gonna go back in hind sight and look — but the idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens. I don’t know how that happens,” Biden said. ABC News also said Biden “grew defensive” when asked about those images of Afghans falling from U.S. military air craft.Itwas on Aug. 31, 2021, that the military mission officially ended. “The United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan — the longest war in American his tory,” Biden said. “We completed one of the biggest airlifts in his tory, with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety. That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible. No nation — no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history. Only the United States had the capacity and the will and the ability to do it, and we did it today. The extraordi nary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, brav ery, and selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats and intelligence pro fessionals.”Inlater months, the military intelligence failures would con tinue to mount. A drone strike intended for ISIS-K apparently missed its target, killing a humanitarian worker and seven children. And in the leadup to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Biden ad ministration that was confident in the abilities of the former Af ghan president instead offered a plane to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who re fused and rallied his nation and much of the world to his side in the ongoing Politically,struggle.Biden’sown job ap proval went underwater a week after the fall of Kabul. Prior to mid-August 2021, he was in the low 50s, somewhat normal for most presidents. Since then, however, it dropped to under 50 and currently is in the low 40s. Facing the loss of one or both houses of Congress in the No vember midterms, Biden’s po litical standing has Democrats searching for alternatives in 2024.But for those still in Afghani stan, they’ve lost much more.
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7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
PUBLIC DOMAIN “The Apostle Paul” by Rembrandt (circa 1657) is painting in the collection of the Widener Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. by Cheri Beasley. If Beasley would spend less time on her couch and more time talking to voters, maybe she would learn that working families are be ing forced to choose between putting food on the table and buying back-to-school supplies because of the Biden/Beasley policy agenda,” Budd Commu nications Director Samantha Cotten told North State Jour nal.Budd closes the ad, featur ing a family struggling to de cide which items to purchase, by saying he’s running for U.S. Senate to stop the spending and end the recession “so families can leave with full carts and happy kids again.”
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“COVID-19 is still with us, and North Carolinians now have multi ple ways to manage the virus, so it doesn’t manage us,” said NCDHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley. State Republicans increasingly criticized Cooper over the mea sures as they hit one- and two-year anniversaries, with House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) even celebrating earlier this year with a satirical birthday cake for the order.
North State Journal RALEIGH — A $100,000 re ward is being offered in the case of a Wake County sheriff’s depu ty found fatally shot along a dark stretch of road in rural southeast ern Wake County last week. “Horrified” by a string of shoot ings that have injured and killed several deputies in the state in recent weeks, the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association announced the reward Monday for infor mation leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the killing of Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy Ned Byrd. The 48-year-old K-9 officer had been with the office for 13 years. Byrd joined the sheriff’s office as a detention officer in 2009 and was sworn in as a deputy in 2018, ac cording to the sheriff’s office. “A law enforcement officer’s pri mary duties are to safeguard lives and property and to serve the pub lic. Doing so comes with risk. All law enforcement officers accept this risk when they first take their oath of office, and at the beginning of each subsequent shift. We ex tend our support to every law en forcement officer; we know these shootings make the burdens of your service heavier and the dan gers of your work feel imminently more threatening,” the association said in a statement. “A safe, civil, and peaceful society requires a collective commitment to decency and to following public standards; it also requires a system of ac countability in our communities for those who violate the law.” Byrd was fatally shot late Thursday on a dark section of Bat tle Bridge Road, but it was not im mediately clear why he stopped there, sheriff’s office spokesper son Eric Curry said last week. Byrd had responded to a domes tic call less than a mile away ear lier in the night, then entered his notes into the system, he said. There was no radio traffic to indicate that Byrd was mak ing a traffic stop, but it appears something caught his attention along the road, since his vehi cle was positioned as if to illu minate something, Curry said. When Byrd did not respond to several attempts to contact him, another deputy found Byrd shot outside his vehicle with his K-9 still inside the vehicle, he said. Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies joined the “manhunt for the perpetrator or perpetrators,” Curry said. There is still an active investi gation, Curry said Monday. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have joined in the investigation, Curry said. Sheriff Gerald Baker updat ed the Wake County commis sioners Monday, saying he was satisfied with the investigation’s progress, news outlets reported. Baker, who lost the Democratic primary runoff, vowed to spend his remaining time in office working to find whoever is re sponsible.“Idon’t have very long, but I’ll spend every single second left bringing this person to justice,” Baker said. “That I promise. That I vow.”
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Picking up standard supplies like glue and scissors also adds up, with glue packs costing over $4 and a single set of scissors ranging from $1.47 to over $2 depending on size and type. A 12 pack of generic No. 2 pen cils was found on sale for 47 cents while a 10 count of BIC pens was marked down to 97 cents from $1.57.Folders of various types were found at the low end of 50 cents to $1.48 up to a maximum of $2.18. Seeing if one can reuse an old notebook may be a good way to shave off a few dollars as single subject notebooks were priced anywhere from $1.26 to $2.64 de pending on the brand. Varieties of composition notebook prices cost anywhere from 50 cents up to Binders$2.24. of all sizes were one of the costliest items found. Oneinch binders cost between $1.24 and $2.34. The prices were sim ilar on Amazon for binders of this size but finding a single binder in stock instead of a multi-pack might be a challenge. For a three-inch binder, the price typically came in at between $6 and $7.64. The same 3-inch binders on Amazon are regular ly priced at between $14 and $19 dollars and Amazon’s own brand were in the middle range, cur rently priced at around $16.50.
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Inflation causing school supplies sticker shock for parents “Compared to 2019, backto-school shoppers are expected to spend $168 more on average, and total spending is up $11 billion.” National Retail Federation “The pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to our state and people now have the knowledge and the tools like vaccines, boosters and therapeutic treatments to keep them safe.”
“Back-to-school spending has increased dramatically since the onset of the pandemic, as families adjusted to changes from virtual and hybrid learning. Compared to 2019, back-to-school shoppers are expected to spend $168 more on average, and total spending is up $11 billion,” a July 14 NRF press releaseAccordingsays. to NRF, a survey on school supply items showed a ma jority (68%) said they have seen higher prices on school items with clothes, accessories, and school supplies among the top items con sumers saw higher prices. The contrast in current spend ing is sharp when compared to NRF’s estimates for 2014’s $26.5 billion for K-12 back-to-school supplies; an average of just over $669 per Parentschild.shopping in typical places like Walmart may find some deals on items like folders, notebooks, and art supplies such as crayons and colored pencils. Prices at Walmart locations in Wake County turned up a sale on 24 packs of Craz-art crayons for 34 cents, marked down from 74 cents. In contrast, the same size of Crayola brand crayons cost $2.74. On Amazon, a 24 pack of Crazart crayons can be found for $1.54 and the same size Crayola set of crayons is found at a low start ing at $5.25 and a high of almost $6.40.
RALEIGH — Parents are having some sticker shock while shopping for school supplies this year as inflation under the Biden administration has hit a 40-year high of According9.1%. to the world’s largest retail trade association, the Na tional Retail Federation (NRF), back-to-school spending this year will surpass $37 billion, and will at least match 2021’s record $37.1 billion. NRF’s 2021 estimate was up by $3 billion over 2020 NRF expects parents of ele mentary school students to spend $15 more than they did in 2021 for an average of $864. In 2021, NRF estimated average spending of around $848, which was $59 more than was spent in 2020.
“I’m glad it’s finally coming to an end and there are now safeguards in place to prevent a governor from having unlimited and unchecked emergency executive authority going forward,” Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne) told North State Journal in July. Over the course of the pandem ic, Cooper consistently insisted the order was necessary to “draw down federal funds.” North State Journal could find no evidence to validate that claim and the governor’s office has not responded to requests for clarification.During2020, the legislature tried twice unsuccessfully to bring an end to Cooper’s long-running COVIDLawmakersemergency.passed Senate Bill 105, the Emergency Management Act, in July 2021 which directed the governor to obtain concur rence from the Council of State on emergency orders. Cooper prompt ly vetoed the bill. In his veto mes sage, claimed that requiring con currence would place “additional bureaucratic and administrative obligations on the declaration of a state of emergency.” An override of the veto failed in the Senate down party lines by a vote of 26-21. In October 2021, the General Assembly passed another bill to rein in the emergency powers of the governor as Cooper’s state of emergency order passed the 600day mark. House Bill 264, the Emergency Powers Act, would have required the governor to ob tain concurrence from the Council of State 48 hours prior to issuance of a statewide emergency or immi nent hazard declaration. All doc umentation pertaining to the re quest for concurrence would have been considered public records. House Bill 264 was passed and sent to Cooper on Oct. 22, 2021, which he then vetoed on Nov. 1. The bill remains active and the veto could be revisited at a later date after it was referred to the Committee on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House on Nov. 2, 2021. The legislature was finally suc cessful with the inclusion of lan guage on emergency powers in the 2021 budget, which Cooper signed. The 2021 budget, contained in Senate Bill 105, included a provi sion barring an ongoing state of emergency declaration lasting be yond 30 days unless concurrence is received from the Council of State. If concurrence is received, at the 60-day mark the state of emergen cy would expire unless the General Assembly acts. The provision goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023. “Gov. Cooper’s extended lock down resulted in extreme learning loss for our students and crippled our small businesses,” Senate Lead er Phil Berger (R-Eden) told NSJ one month ago. “The people of the state, especially our students who were forced out of their classrooms and are now months behind where they should be academically, were harmed. Yet, he doubled-down and kept his ‘emergency’ intact for 29 months. It’s past time to move on.”
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By A.P. Dillon and Matt Mercer North State Journal RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper officially lifted North Carolina’s COVID-19 State of Emergency on Monday after 888 days. In a statement from the gover nor’s office, Cooper cited that with vaccines, treatments, and other tools to combat COVID-19 widely available and with legislation pro viding the requested flexibility to N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) and health care providers to continue to respond, the state is poised to continue comprehensive pandemic response without the need of the order.“The pandemic brought unprec edented challenges to our state and people now have the knowledge and the tools like vaccines, boost ers and therapeutic treatments to keep them safe,” said Cooper in a statement. “Executive orders is sued under the State of Emergency protected public health and helped us save lives and livelihoods. North Carolina is emerging even stronger than before and my administration will continue to work to protect the health and safety of our people.”
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SHANNON BREAM, a Fox News Channel veteran who is the network’s chief legal corre spondent, is the new anchor of the “Fox News Sunday” political talk show, filling a role left vacant when Chris Wallace left last De cember.Bream was among the rotat ing guest anchors of Fox’s Sun day show over the past several months. Fox said that each time Bream hosted, viewership was up 20% over the 2021 average — when Wallace was host. She will relinquish her role anchoring a weeknight news cast that airs at midnight on Fox News Channel, the network said. In making the announcement, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said, “Shannon is an outstanding journalist, reporter and anchor who has cultivated a strong and enduring relationship with the Fox News Media audience.” When she officially starts on Sept. 11, she’ll be the third host of the 26-year-old show, after the late Tony Snow and Wallace. “Fox News Sunday” airs on the Fox broadcast network and is lat er repeated on the news channel. “It has been an honor to cover major news throughout Wash ington over the last 15 years at Fox News,” Bream said in a state ment. “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to host a Sunday show and look forward to this new role.” Since 2017 Bream has served as the anchor of FOX News @ Night (12-1 AM/ET), which airs in primetime in the Mountain and Western time zones. The program regularly outpaces its cable news competition across the board, averaging more than 1.1 million viewers and 218,000 in the demo this past quarter. She has also conducted news-mak ing interviews throughout her tenure, including an exclusive sit-down with Justice Neil Gor such after he was confirmed, and wide-ranging interviews with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.Shehas covered every land mark decision of the United States Supreme Court since join ing the network in 2007. Most recently, Bream led network coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and reported on the leaked draft opinion through the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Before joining Fox News Channel, Bream anchored the evening and late-night news for WBTV in Charlotte from 20012004.Bream is also the first fran chise author of the Fox News book imprint, where she has written two books on women and the Bible. She was a corpo rate lawyer before entering jour nalism.
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Caswell County Officials say a sheriff’s deputy was shot multiple times while serving a domestic violence protection order. The Caswell County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was one of two deputies who went to a home in Semora to serve the order. The second deputy didn’t report any injuries. The injured deputy was taken to a hospital and is responsive and alert. The deputy appeared to be shot in the upper shoulder and lower back. After the shooting, the shooter retreated to the home leading to an hourslong standoff.
Nickel’s apparent support among groups skeptical of stronger law enforcement includes an organization calledAccording#VOTEPROCHOICE.toapetitionthe group sponsors, “Policing in the U.S. upholds a violent legacy of racialized trauma and control, diverting crucial resources from communities that most need them. We must immediately defund the police at local government levels.” Nickel touts the group’s endorsement on his website. His support among “defund the police” groups comes as homicides in Raleigh are at a year-to-date increase, according to Raleigh’s The News & Observer. In mid-July, the newspaper reported, “More people have been killed in Raleigh this year than by this time in either of the previous two years, Raleigh Police Department data show. There have been 24 homicide victims, with 21 of them dying from being shot. A total of 69 people have been shot so far this year.”
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Cherokee County Bruce Oliver of Clay County was arrested in Murphy last week after police made a traffic stop of the vehicle he was driving. After K-9 officers searched the car, police recovered nearly 85 grams of methamphetamine, 26.5 grams of fentanyl, several prescription narcotics and a gun. Police also searched a storage unit of Oliver’s and found 48 grams of fentanyl, $7,000 in cash and three guns. He faces 10 counts, including trafficking in opioids and meth.
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AP DOT worker killed while on road duty; man later charged Wilson County A Department of Transportation worker was killed when a vehicle struck her as she directed traffic around a fallen tree. A man was later arrested and charged with fleeing the scene. The patrol says 60-year-old Anna Bradshaw worked in DOT’s Wilson County maintenance office. A trooper says she was holding a sign Friday morning along U.S. Highway 264 Alternate when she was struck by a passenger car, but the driver ultimately left. The patrol says Jamari Marquis Powell of Bailey was taken into custody late Friday and charged with felony hit and run. AP Woman found dead in car Robeson County Tamika Locklear, 41, of Fairmont, was found dead of a gunshot wound in her car last Thursday in Orrum. Police were called to the scene of a shooting and found Locklear and a 20-year-old, whose name wasn’t immediately released, who had also been shot. He was taken to a hospital. Police said that the shooting was the result of an “ongoing domestic dispute.”
Masks to be required again at Great Smoky National Park Haywood County Masks will once again be required for visitors inside all Great Smoky Mountains National Park buildings due to the high transmission of COVID-19. The mask mandate will apply to all visitors regardless of vaccination status. The policy was put in place to be “consistent with CDC guidance regarding areas of substantial or high transmission.”
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Police: 6 young people shot at night club Wake County Authorities say six youths were shot at a night club. The Raleigh Police Department said it didn’t have the conditions of each of the four girls and two boys age 12 to 17 who were injured when a fight broke out late Friday. But the department said they were all expected to survive. No arrests had been made as of Saturday. Police say gunfire occurred inside Club Dreams, after which the fight spilled into the parking lot and more shots were fired.
AP COVID-19 staffing shortages close town hall to public Chatham County Officials are closing the police department and town hall to the public amid staffing shortages related to COVID-19. Pittsboro town spokesman Colby Sawyer said the closure will affect walk-in and drive-through services at Town Hall. Sayer says the building will remain closed at least a week. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chatham County is one of 67 counties in the state experiencing high levels of community transmission for the coronavirus, with 255 cases for every 100,000 people. However, the CDC reports that only 5.7% of available hospital beds are filled with COVID patients.
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RALEIGH — Democratic state Sen. Wiley Nickel, who is running in North Carolina’s competitive 13th Congressional District race against Republican Bo Hines, voted against two bills increasing penalties for drugrelated deaths and participating in a riot during his tenure in the General Assembly.Onesuch bill was House Bill 474, which established new criminal offenses for death by distribution and aggravated death by distribution of “certain controlled substances” without malice. The measure, which was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in 2019, received bipartisan support in both the N.C. House and Senate. Another bill, House Bill 805, would have increased some penalties for current offenses and created new offenses related to rioting, specifically injuries to person or property stemming from rioting, looting or trespass during an emergency. It also would have included assaults on emergency personnel and stronger requirements for bail and pretrial release for defendants charged with rioting and/or looting or trespassing during an emergency. The measure, which was brought to the General Assembly following 2020’s riots in downtown Raleigh and other cities, passed the legislature but was vetoed by Cooper. In statements and blog entries over the past several years, Nickel has also advertised his ability to help alleged criminals with legal representation and getting lesser charges or sentences. The firm advertised representing those convicted of domestic violence, assault against a police officer, and assault with a deadly weapon. One such post, in April 2016, said in part, “This month Attorney Wiley Nickel had another not guilty verdict for one of our clients in Wake County. The client was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.”Thestatement continued, saying, “The State of North Carolina needs to prove every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. Our assault lawyers enjoy trying cases and believe that an aggressive defense is often the best offense. If you are charged with assault & battery, assault on a female, or assault with a deadly weapon in the Wake County or Raleigh area, contact the Law Offices of Wiley Nickel to speak with Raleigh Assault Lawyer Wiley Nickel.”
BEN MCKEOWN | AP PHOTO Wiley Nickel, a Democratic candidate for U.S. House from North Carolina, is reflected in a television monitor as speaks at an election night event hosted by the North Carolina Democratic Party after winning his primary race in Raleigh.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins say there were roughly 431 cases per 100,000 people in Tennessee over the past two weeks, which ranks 28th in the country. Haywood and Swain counties, which border the park in North Carolina, have medium COVID risk. AP Man sentenced for killing son Macon County Jesse Wilson, 26, of Franklin, was sentenced to life in prison after entering a guilty plea in the death of his infant son. Three-month-old Liam Wilson was killed on May 11, 2017. An autopsy showed that he died from asphyxia and smothering, and there were signs of blunt force trauma. The case was considered a capital case, and Wilson entered a guilty plea to take the possibility of the death penalty of the table.
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WMBF Man arrested for Los Angeles murder Martin County Jaylon Dickens last week after a weeklong investigation, in connection with a murder in California. Dickens allegedly committed the murder in Los Angeles. Police made a traffic stop in Rocky Mount a week ago, and Dickens ran from officers and eluded them. Nash County Narcotics Division worked with Wake and Martin County Sheriff’s Offices to find him and arrest him in Martin County. He is being held in the Nash County Detention Center awaiting extradition to California.
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AP Prosecutor dismisses murder count in student’s death Gaston County A prosecutor has dropped a first-degree murder charge against a man whose conviction in the death of a university student was overturned by a judge eight years later. Gaston County District Attorney Travis Page formally dismissed the charge against Mark Bradley Carver of Belmont. The DA says the evidence no longer supports the count. Carver and his cousin were charged in the 2008 death of Ira Yarmolenko, who was a student at UNC Charlotte. The cousin died before he went on trial. The judge ordering the new trial for Carver focused on DNA evidence.
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ACTRESS ANNE HECHE, 53, was declared brain dead on Friday, August 12th, one week after she crashed her Mini Cooper into a home after driving down a road in Los Angeles at a high rate of speed. Shortly after the crash, Heche’s car exploded into flames. She suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” “significant pulmonary injury” and severe burns on her body, and according to various news reports, she was in a coma for most of her time in the hospital, being kept on life support for two days after she was declared brain dead while doctors determined if any of her organs could be donated. Heche is survived by two sons, Homer and Atlas. In the days leading up to her death including immediately after the car crash, videos surfaced of Heche, one where she had allegedly hit a garage at an apartment complex and was urged to get out of her vehicle but didn’t. Instead, she appeared to step on the gas, and shortly after, another video showed her barreling down a residential neighborhood road. In the video clip, you hear but don’t see the car hitting the house. Early reports indicated that Heche may have been intoxicated and possibly on narcotics, though the investigation into that aspect of the crash is still ongoing. As a result of that information, social media platforms Facebook and Twitter lit up with condemnations of Heche, with many choosing to focus on the woman, Lynne Mishele, who was said to have narrowly escaped the fire with her two dogs before the home she was renting was destroyed by the car crash. Though Heche had an extensive film and TV career, many will understandably remember her most for the unfortunate actions that preceded her death. What is not widely known about Heche, however, was her complicated life. In a book she wrote about her life in 2001, Heche alleged her father repeatedly sexually abused her as an infant and as a child, which she said led to mental health challenges she’d faced her whole life. Three months after she lost her father to HIV/AIDS (when he was 45 and she was 13), Heche also lost her brother in what authorities said at the time was a car accident but which Heche believed was a suicide. Heche also lost two other siblings, one sister to brain cancer and another sister in infancy as the result of a heart defect. Heche was also estranged from her mother and her remaining sibling, both of who have denied the allegations Heche made about her father’s alleged abuse.
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How easily duped can the leadership of the FBI really and truly be? The whole “Russian Collusion” allegation was concocted by none other than Hillary Clinton herself in the morning after her devastating loss to Donald Trump in 2016, all chronicled in chapter 21 of Jonathan Allen’s book appropriately named “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign”. All she had to do was tell her top campaign advisors Robbie Mook and John Podesta to spin the now-proven false tale with their goo-goo-eyed buddies in the media that Trump colluded with the Russians and Vladimir Putin to steal her Godgiven right to be the next President ― and the left-wing media, James Comey and the rest of FBI leadership fell in line hook, line and sinker. Here’s a list of FBI “flashing light raids” on Republicans in the last six years: Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Rudy Guiliani, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and now former President Donald Trump. Somehow, hundreds of television cameras and crews “just happened” to be in precisely the right position to film every scintillating moment as if it was an episode of “Cops.” Here’s a list of FBI “raids” on Democrats in the last six years, four of which were during the time with a Republican president: NoZero.“flashing light raid” on the home of Hillary Clinton for her reckless use of non-secured servers in the bathroom of her Chappaqua home which contained classified documents. No “flashing light raid” on the home of Hunter Biden for his alleged crimes. No “flashing light raid” at the homes of Comey or any of the disgraced former FBI agents Peter Strzok or Andrew McCabe for their roles in promoting the false Russian Collusion hoax for years. Possible violation of the 1917 Espionage Act by Trump as now reported is no trivial matter. It is exactly the same statute under which Hillary was investigated by the FBI in 2016. Comey declared that her handling of classified emails and documents was “extremely careless” but “did not warrant prosecution”. Of course it didn’t. She was the Democrat nominee for the While House; a former Secretary of State under Obama and wife of two-term Democrat President Bill Clinton. She got a get-out-of-jail-free card as former Bill Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger did when caught literally red-handed walking out of the National Archives with classified documents shoved down his underpants and in his socks. Unless former President Trump is proven to be the illegitimate son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who sold nuclear secrets to the Chinese and Russians far in excess of the treasonous behavior of Robert Hanssen, and is proven to be the mastermind behind the assassinations of both Kennedys and Martin Luther King, “The Raid” on his home at Mar-A-Largo will be a colossal bust. The FBI was dangerous when J. Edgar Hoover did the bidding of Johnson and Nixon to investigate political enemies. Apparently, nothing has changed at their headquarters at 601 4th St NW, Washington, DC.
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FORMER FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER investigated John Lennon of the Beatles for being a subversive element to the United States. Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson worried Lennon would hurt LBJ’s reelection chances in 1968. Don’t say the leadership of the FBI has “never been political.” 99% of the men and women serving in the FBI are fine, honorable people protecting the rest of us from criminals of all stripes. The FBI used to chase real national security traitors such as Robert Hanssen who was arrested in January 2001 in a Northern Virginia park after making a drop for selling top-secret nuclear war information to the Soviet Union before it collapsed in 1991. In the minds of most Americans under the age of 40, the FBI only investigates alleged political crimes by Republicans. They have never seen the FBI conduct a flashing light raid on any prominent Democrat. If they did, then maybe the low perception of the FBI would begin to rise once again. At least the FBI would appear to be unbiased in their prosecution of justice. The reputation of the chief law enforcement agency in America has been reduced by leadership and political operatives to nothing more than a goofy politicized version of the cartoonish Keystone Kops movies of the silent movie era. How many more Robert Hanssens could the FBI have arrested had they better used the time, energy, money and man-hours devoted to entrapping Republican officials on trumped-up political charges?
In the late 1990s, Heche was in a three-year relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres, a relationship which Heche said led to her being “blackballed” for roughly a decade in Hollywood, which insiders say was less accepting of such relationships at the time. Heche would later claim that she felt DeGeneres had had a hand in her blackballing since it was Heche who decided to end their relationship. In any event, with Heche now gone her legacy will be debated in the months and years to come. But one thing is for certain, her life was about a lot more than the car crash that ultimately took her life. People who rush to judge her should keep all of this in mind, and also consider whether someone’s life should ultimately be judged by the one time they fell from grace. I’m of the general mindset, with few exceptions, that they shouldn’t be. As for Lynne Mishele, the owners of the home she was renting have started a GoFundMe on her behalf, which as of this writing has raised nearly $175,000. Anyone interested in donating should search “Help Lynne Mishele after Devastating Fire Loss” on GoFundMe, which should take you to the donation page.
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Author Theodore White in his book “Caesar at the Rubicon: A Play About Politics” captures the factors weighing on Caesar in January, 49 BC as he decides whether to cross the Rubicon and capture Rome through a CivilCaesarWar.is conflicted because he would like to operate legally and follow the rules, which forbid anyone from bringing an army closer to Rome than the banks of the Rubicon.TheRubicon is a small river in northwestern Italy. Yet, that small stream was the constitutional boundary of the Roman Republic. To cross that stream with an army was to violate the constitution of the Republic. Any leader who brought an army into Rome without authorization was in effect a traitor and an outlaw. Caesar had spent nine years fighting in Gaul (from 58 to 49 BC). He had been stunningly successful and had pacified the huge area (which makes up modern-day France, Holland, Belgium, and the western side of the Rhine). He had also twice invaded Britain. During the nine years Caesar was gone from Rome, his enemies gathered around the other great general of the era — Caesar’sPompey. opponents feared him and had decided to accuse him of a series of crimes. They intended to convict and promptly kill him. The Roman Republic had been decaying for several generations. The rule of law had increasingly given way to bribery, riots, murders, and other methods of getting results without regard to the traditional system which had made the Republic such an astonishingly powerful and profitable system. In White’s version, Caesar negotiates with his opponents. He wants to retain a sense of legality and offers to give up his armies if they will change the law to ensure he will be physically safe. His opponents feared Caesar more than they feared war. They refused to offer him the legal guarantees he needs to preserve his life from his enemies. He finally decided to move his army across the Rubicon.
He moved on Rome with such speed that his opponents, including Pompey, panicked and fled the city. The Civil War had begun and would only end when Caesar had defeated all his opponents and stood astride the Mediterranean as the unchallenged leader. So, Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and the weakened Roman Republic died. The Roman Empire was founded on its ruins. It was an outcome for which no reasonable person could have hoped.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION has a lot of nerve proposing to double the budget of the Internal Revenue Service and add 87,000 employees. This plan is set to become law as part of the soon-to-be-enacted Inflation Reduction Act. And it comes around the same time as the outrageous FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-aLago compound in Palm Beach, Florida. The Biden administration has converted the FBI and the Justice Department into functionaries of the Democratic Party’s character assassination campaign. Think they will do the same with a Yankee Stadium full of new IRS auditors? They will be on search-and-destroy missions.Sen.Ben Cardin (D-MD) patronizingly dismisses any concerns about taxpayer abuses by saying, “If you’re not cheating on your taxes, you have nothing to worry about.”That’s the language of tyrants. I personally went through a three-year dispute with the IRS, which cost me tens of thousands of dollars in attorney and tax accountant fees — until the IRS snoops did a “Whoops, we’re sorry, we were wrong. Have a nice day.” When you are under IRS investigation and the agency places a lien on your bank account, you are guilty until you prove yourselfConservativesinnocent.haven’t (or shouldn’t have forgotten) the outrageous weaponization of the tax collection agency during President Barack Obama’s administration. Obama political appointee Lois Lerner targeted the Tea Party and other taxpayer groups with a conservative orientation. An accident? By the way, the Obama team never even apologized, and Lois Lerner ducked out on testifying before Congress. She never went to jail. Now, the folks at Openthebooks. com report that the IRS is armed with real weapons — guns, ammunition and military equipment. “The Internal Revenue Service, with its 2,159 ‘Special Agents,’ spent $21.3 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019. The agency stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition.” How many of the new 87,000 employees will be armed? And why does a tax collection agency need guns, anyway? This story gets more sordid as we dig deeper. The IRS employee union donates 99% of its money to Democrats. This scam to give the IRS tens of billions of dollars will pipeline millions of dollars into the coffers of Democratic candidates. Does anyone believe that an agency that gives almost every dollar from its PAC to one party is an unbiased referee of our tax system?Ihope no one believes this is to get more money from Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or Mark Zuckerberg. These billionaires have their own armies of tax accountants and lawyers. They have the resources to defend themselves from erroneous IRS tax rulings. The Republicans in the Senate offered an amendment to this god-awful bill that would have restricted new audits to those making more than $400,000. Every Democrat said no way. This is because the geese they will pluck are the defenseless small business owners and people who make between $75,000 and $250,000 of income. My friend Dan Pilla, who is one of the experts on IRS abuses, has found that the agency is trying to discourage taxpayers from hiring an attorney or going to court to get their money back. Once upon a time, liberals cared about government abuses of citizens’ civil rights. Once upon a time, there was an American Civil Liberties Union that would have been marching in the streets against more intense government scrutiny of every financial transaction people make. Now, they are mute, because the modern ACLU and other such groups are completely captured by big government socialists. If you have a conservative voice in this country or you have any affiliation with the Republican Party or donate to Republican candidates, they are coming after you. Maybe soon. What is perhaps worst of all about this vault of money being turned over to 150,000 IRS agents is that Democrats have voted down more money for police to stop rampant crime. They’ve voted down more Border Patrol agents to help keep out drug runners and criminals and coyotes. They refuse to provide the funding for the Army so that our armed forces can recruit the soldiers and personnel we need for our national security.Wecould fund all of these things with a fraction of the money top Democrats such as President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) want to spend on tax agents. These are the most warped funding priorities I’ve seen in 30 years. The IRS may soon be knocking on your door. And yes, they are here from the government. But no, they aren’t here to help you. Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at FreedomWorks. He is also author of the new book: “Govzilla: How The Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy.”
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THE DEMOCRATS’ new reconciliation bill isn’t just going to be the largest-ever expansion of a government agency. It’s going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Only a statist could believe that a federal government, which already collects $4.1 trillion every year — or $12,300 for every citizen — supposedly needs 80 battalions of new IRS cops. The average American has less reason to be concerned about cops with guns — though the IRS is looking for special agents who can “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary” — than they do bureaucrats armed with pens who are authorized to sift through their lives. If you pay your taxes you have nothing to worry about, Democrats claim. But most law-abiding citizens know they have something to fear from a state agency that doesn’t concern itself with your due process, has no regard for your privacy and is empowered to target anyone it wants without any genuine oversight. And, please, spare us this nonsense about the IRS expansion focusing exclusively on “high earners.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promised that the IRS wouldn’t engage in new audits of anyone making under $400,000 — a claim she has no authority to make and could not possibly predict even if she did. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy also said that the bill was passed to stop an “epidemic of tax cheating amongst the millionaires and billionaires” and promised that “audit rates won’t increase for anyone making under $400K.” This is a lie. Nothing in the bill that Democrats passed through the Senate limits audits. Murphy, along with every other Democrat in the Senate, voted against a Republican amendment that would have prevented new agents from auditing individuals and small businesses with less than $400,000 of taxable income. Not long ago, Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan Act — which had as much to do with rescuing as the Inflation Reduction Act has to do with reducing inflation — and changed tax code so that mobile payment apps like Venmo and Cash App were now required to report transactions totaling $600 or more per year to the IRS. Does that sound like a party aiming fire exclusively at high-earning Americans? Indeed, poor and middle-class Americans are far more likely to do their own taxes, and thus more prone to making mistakes. In 2021, those making $25,000 or less (often the young and elderly) were audited at a rate five times higher than everyone else. The wealthier you are the more likely it is that you can hire lawyers and accountants to work within the system. There aren’t enough millionaires and billionaires in the world to keep a potential new 87,000 IRS employees busy. There are other overlooked aspects of the Democrats’ IRS expansion. The bill, for instance, strengthens the federal public-sector union monopoly that funds Democrats’ political aspirations. IRS and Treasury Department employees spent 353,820 hours engaged in union activism — their PAC gives every cent to the Democrats — in 2019. One can imagine what another 87,000 employees would do for that effort. In the real world, laundering taxpayer funds through unions and using them on political campaigns is called racketeering. None of this is to say that everyone who works for IRS is corrupt or power-hungry or an ideologue. The unassailable rules of giant bureaucracies, however, are that they always experience mission creep, they always do enough to justify their funding, and sooner or later, their leaders become political operatives. With that said, it’s worth remembering that the IRS doesn’t simply collect taxes. It enforces speech codes. This is what empowered former IRS official Lois Lerner to target conservative groups — “crazies and “a—holes” — who used words like “Tea Party” or “patriots” in their names. But, even at the time, leftists at The New York Times editorial board praised the IRS for going after conservative groups because they did not “primarily” engage in “social welfare,” and so did not deserve an exemption under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code. Has anything in the evolution of the Democratic Party given you confidence that such power would not be abused or that an engorged IRS would be immune from political pressure?Wrestling with an insanely complex tax code — nearly 8 million words — costs Americans billions every year. Rather than flattening and simplifying this astonishingly convoluted code, which not only would have saved citizens but the government money, Democrats decided we needed up to another 87,000 people to enforce it.
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On CNN on Tuesday, George Conway, no friend of Trump even though he is married to former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, repeated “they’ve crossed the RubiconCrossinghere.”the Rubicon references an historic event with a specific meaning. To truly cross a Rubicon is to take a step which changes decisively the circumstance in which politics and government occur.
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Has the FBI crossed the Rubicon?
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books - the most recent, “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” IRS hiring spree is the biggest expansion of the police state in American history
I am not sure if the FBI crossed the Rubicon at Mar-aLago, but it clearly further weakened the American people’s trust of the justice system. Later seizing a cell phone from a congressman further threatened the entire constitutional process of the separation of powers. The six-year period of corrupt deep state dishonesty by the FBI, many of the intelligence agencies, the Democrats in Congress, and the fake news media have brought us to the brink of a constitutional crisis. I think we are wavering between restoring the rule of law and the Constitution and decaying into a third world banana republic system of greed, dishonesty, political power, and law breaking on a grand scale. If the FBI can raid a former U.S. President’s home — and bar his lawyers from the premises — the FBI can do it to anyone.Crossing a Rubicon unleashes forces which can be extraordinarily destructive. Only once since our founding, during the American Civil War, has that kind of Rubicon beenWecrossed.mustseek some way to come together and reopen a sense of dialogue. The alternative is far too destructive and consequential.
ON MONDAY, Buck Sexton told Jesse Waters: “It almost feels like a preemptive coup… this is meant to prevent Donald Trump from being able to run again… This is the Rubicon being crossed. This is something we’ve never seen before. This is something that is outrageous. And the usage of the FBI in this way is really the nail in the coffin for so many Americans as to whether you can trust the FBI or trust the DOJ. Clearly not on political matters.”
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12. Preferences for firms having a presence in North Carolina. 13. Other factors which may be appropriate for the project.
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Develop a single-site, functional, landmark campus integrating design elements from other North Carolina government buildings, including the State Capitol, the State Legislature, the Raleigh Century Post Office, and Museums along Jones Street. The Education Campus will support multiple executive-level agencies, including the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System, and UNC System. The Education Campus shall include approximately 250,000 gross square feet of space, including 200,000 square feet of office space, and 1,004 parking spaces. The scope of work includes but is not limited to analyzing space needs, identifying parking needs, identifying on site constraints, developing optimal building density
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Across the country, there are countless others like him. Hun dreds of thousands of recent grad uates are heading to college this fall after spending more than half their high school careers dealing with the upheaval of a pandemic. They endured a jarring transition to online learning, the strains from teacher shortages and profound disruptions to their home lives. And many are believed to be sig nificantly behind academically. Colleges could see a surge in stu dents unprepared for the demands of college-level work, education experts say. Starting a step behind can raise the risk of dropping out. And that can hurt everything from a person’s long-term earnings to the health of the country’s workforce. The extent of the problem be came apparent to Allison Wag ner as she reviewed applications for All-In Milwaukee, a schol arship program that provides financial aid and college coun seling to low-income students, includingWagner,Hope.thegroup’s executive director, saw startling numbers of students who were granted per mission to spend half the school day working part-time jobs their senior year, often at fast food chains or groceries. And she saw more students than ever who didn’t take math or science classes their senior year, often as a result of teacher shortages. “We have so many students who are going on to college academi cally malnourished,” Wagner said. “There is no way they are going to be academically prepared for the rigor of college.” Her group is boosting its tutor ing budget and covering tuition for students in the program who take summer classes in math or science. Still, she fears the setbacks will force some students to take more than four years to graduate or, worse, drop out. “The stakes are tremendously high,” she Researcherssaid. say it’s clear that remote instruction caused learn ing setbacks, most sharply among black and Hispanic students. For younger students, there’s still hope that America’s schools can accel erate the pace of instruction and close learning gaps. But for those who graduated in the last two years, experts fear many will strug gle.In anticipation of higher needs, colleges from New Jersey to Cal ifornia have been expanding “bridge” programs that provide summer classes, often for students from lower incomes or those who are the first in their families to at tend college. Programs previously treated as orientation are taking on a harder academic edge, with a focus on math, science and study skills.In Hanceville, Alabama, Wal lace State Community College this year tapped state money to create its first summer bridge program as it braces for an influx of under prepared students. Students could take three weeks of accelerated les sons in math and English in a bid to avoid remedial classes. The school hoped to bring up to 140 students to campus, but just 10 signedOtherup.states have used federal pandemic relief to help colleges build summer programs. In Ken tucky, which gave colleges $3.5 million for the effort this year, offi cials called it a “moral imperative.” “We need these people to be our future workforce, and we need them to be successful,” said Aman da Ellis, a vice president of Ken tucky’s Council on Postsecondary Education.Afterthe pandemic hit, Angel Hope worked up to 20 hours a week at his job with a local non profit aid group. He felt the time away from school was worth it for the money, especially when nobody was paying attention in the online classes. With his parents away at work, he often felt alone, shunning social media for days and eating ra men noodles for dinner. “I think isolating myself was a little bit of my coping mechanism,” he said. “I was kind of like, ‘Keep it in a little bit and you’ll get through it eventually.’”Thepandemic led many high schoolers to disengage at a time when they would usually be pre paring for college or careers, said Rey Saldaña, president and CEO of Communities in Schools, a non profit group that places counselors in public schools in 26 states. His group worked in some districts where hundreds of stu dents simply didn’t return after classrooms reopened. In Char lotte, North Carolina, the allure of steady paychecks kept many stu dents away from school even after in-person classes resumed, said Shakaka Perry, a reengagement coordinator for Communities in Schools.Perry and her colleagues spent last school year bringing students back to school and getting them ready for graduation. But when she thinks about whether they’re ready for college, she has doubts: “It’s go ing to be an awakening.” A couple months after strug gling through his math placement test, Hope headed to the Univer sity of Wisconsin-Madison, for six weeks of intense classes at a sum mer bridge program. He took a math class that covered the ground he missed in high school, and he’s signed up to take calculus in the fall.He also revived basic study skills that went dormant in high school. He started studying at the library. He got used to the rhythms of school, with assignments every day and tests every other week. He rediscovered what it’s like to enjoy school.Most importantly, he says it changed his mindset: Now he feels like he’s there to learn, not just to get“Afterby. this, I definitely feel pre pared for college,” he said. “If I didn’t have this, I would be in a very bad place.”
Scope of Work Develop a single-site, functional, landmark campus integrating design elements from other North Carolina government buildings, including the State Capitol, the State Legislature, the Raleigh Century Post Office, and Museums along Jones Street.
‘I didn’t really learn anything’: COVID grads face college
In selecting designers, the selection committee should take into consideration qualification information, including such factors as: 1. Specialized or appropriate expertise in the type of project. 2. Past performance on similar projects. 3. Adequate staff and proposed design or consultant team for the project. 4. Current workload and State projects awarded. 5. Proposed design approach for the project including design team and consultants. 6. Recent experience with project costs and schedules, including overcoming supply chain impacts and cost inflation. 7. Construction administration capabilities. 8. Proximity to and familiarity with the area where the project is located.
AP PHOTO Instructor Oh Hoon Kwon, left, speaks to students during a math class, part of an intense six-week summer bridge program for students of color and first-generation students at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wis., July 27, 2022. “We have so many students who are going on to college academically malnourished. There is no way they are going to be academically prepared for the rigor of college.” Allison Wagner
This RFQ is subject to certain terms and conditions, which can be supplied to the responding designer upon request. By submitting a response to this RFQ, the responding designer acknowledges the terms and conditions and accepts all the terms and conditions contained therein. The Legislative Services Office reserves the right to add additional terms after the selection of a designer, prior to finalizing a contract.
Total Project Budget Estimated Total Project Budget = $180,000,000 Source of Funds State Capital and Infrastructure Fund (Project Code: NCGA21-3) Publish Date Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Closing Date Thursday, September 15, 2022
9. Record of successfully completed projects without major legal or technical problems. 10. Experience with Construction Manager at Risk projects. 11. Demonstrative experience with project architectural features and aesthetics.
The North Carolina General Assembly has tasked the Legislative Services Office with combining the real estate footprint of the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System, and The University of North Carolina System to create synergies in how the state administers public education from kindergarten to tomorrow’s workforce, and highlight North Carolina’s deep history in education. By anchoring the campus on the city block bounded by Jones Street, Salisbury Street, Lane Street, and McDowell Street, in the heart of Raleigh, the Legislative Services Office aims to establish a new standard for architecture amongst the state government buildings while maintaining historical design elements from the surrounding environment. Further, the Education Campus, which will attract students and adults alike, should include dynamic and highly functional pedestrian spaces capable of inspiring today’s students and tomorrow’s workforce.
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Proposing firms must submit ONE (1) potential design image for the Education Campus, THREE (3) copies of the Letter of Interest, THREE (3) copies of THREE (3) Letters of Recommendation, and THREE (3) copies of your current Standard Form 254 (SF 254) with the information package. The current SF 254 template is located at: http://ncadmin.nc.gov/businesses/construction/forms-documents.E-mailandFaxsubmittalswillnotbeaccepted.
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The Legislative Services Office is seeking a North Carolina registered architecture/engineering firm capable of delivering architectural, engineering, cost estimating, and landscape architectural services for the new North Carolina Education SpecificCampus. engineering services shall include but are not limited to structural, mechanical, electrical, MEP/FP, civil, and geotechnical engineering.
The North Carolina General Assembly has tasked the Legislative Services Office with combining the real estate footprint of the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System, and The University of North Carolina System to create synergies in how the state administers public education from kindergarten to tomorrow’s workforce, and highlight North Carolina’s deep history in education. By anchoring the campus on the city block bounded by Jones Street, Salisbury Street, Lane Street, and McDowell Street, in the heart of Raleigh, the Legislative Services Office aims to establish a new standard for architecture amongst the state government buildings while maintaining historical design elements from the surrounding environment. Further, the Education Campus, which will attract students and adults alike, should include dynamic and highly functional pedestrian spaces capable of inspiring today’s students and tomorrow’s workforce.
The Legislative Services Office is seeking a North Carolina registered architecture/engineering firm capable of delivering architectural, engineering, cost estimating, and landscape architectural services for the new North Carolina Education SpecificCampus. engineering services shall include but are not limited to structural, mechanical, electrical, MEP/FP, civil, and geotechnical engineering.
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At our discretion, we may retain the selected designer for the remainder of the design and construction of the project and any other development opportunities for the property.
By anchoring the campus on the city block bounded by Jones Street, Salisbury Street, Lane Street, and McDowell Street, in the heart of Raleigh, the Legislative Services Office aims to establish a new standard for architecture amongst the state government buildings while maintaining historical design elements from the surrounding environment. Further, the Education Campus, which will attract students and adults alike, should include dynamic and highly functional pedestrian spaces capable of inspiring today’s students and tomorrow’s workforce.
Contact Paul Coble, Legislative Services Office Telephone EMAIL ONLY Email Paul.Coble@ncleg.gov
The Education Campus will support multiple executive-level agencies, including the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System, and UNC System. The Education Campus shall include approximately 250,000 gross square feet of space, including 200,000 square feet of office space, and 1,004 parking spaces.
The North Carolina General Assembly has tasked the Legislative Services Office with combining the real estate footprint of the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System, and The University of North Carolina System to create synergies in how the state administers public education from kindergarten to tomorrow’s workforce, and highlight North Carolina’s deep history in education.
SUBMIT ONE (1) Potential Design and THREE (3) Copies of Letter of Interest, Letters andRecommendation,ofSF-254:
Scope of Work Develop a single-site, functional, landmark campus integrating design elements from other North Carolina government buildings, including the State Capitol, the State Legislature, the Raleigh Century Post Office, and Museums along Jones Street.
The scope of work includes but is not limited to analyzing space needs, identifying parking needs, identifying on site constraints, developing optimal building density
The Legislative Services Office Project Title North Carolina Education Campus – Advance Planning Phase Design Services Architecture, Engineering, and Planning Background
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The Education Campus will support multiple executive-level agencies, including the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System, and UNC System.
At our discretion, we may retain the selected designer for the remainder of the design and construction of the project and any other development opportunities for the property.
At our discretion, we may retain the selected designer for the remainder of the design and construction of the project and any other development opportunities for the property.
Physical location for Fed Delivery:Ex/UPS Paul Coble, Legislative Services Officer Room 2129, Legislative Building 16 W. Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27601 NC StatementLicensing In order to offer architectural, engineering, or landscape architectural services in response to this solicitation, the proposing firm must be properly licensed to practice Architecture, Engineering, or Landscape Architecture in the State of North Carolina. More information on the North Carolina state boards may be found at the following NCwebsites:Board of Architecture and Registered Interior Designers: NC(http://www.ncbarch.org)BoardofExaminersfor Engineers & Surveyors: (http://www.ncbels.org) NC Board of Landscape Architects: (http://www.ncbola.org)
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The Legislative Services Office is seeking a North Carolina registered architecture/engineering firm capable of delivering architectural, engineering, cost estimating, and landscape architectural services for the new North Carolina Education SpecificCampus. engineering services shall include but are not limited to structural, mechanical, electrical, MEP/FP, civil, and geotechnical engineering.
NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Legislative Services Office Paul Y. Coble, Legislative Services Officer AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
The scope of work includes but is not limited to analyzing space needs, identifying parking needs, identifying on site constraints, developing optimal building density Page 2 of 3 options and greenspaces, establishing project costs, and all other necessary project
SELECTION CRITERIA In selecting designers, the selection committee should take into consideration qualification information, including such factors as: 1. Specialized or appropriate expertise in the type of project. 2. Past performance on similar projects. 3. Adequate staff and proposed design or consultant team for the project. 4. Current workload and State projects awarded.
Commission The Legislative Services Office Project Title North Carolina Education Campus – Advance Planning Phase Design Services Architecture, Engineering, and Planning Background
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Theconsiderations.Legislative Services Office has engaged a spacing consultant to work with the chosen designer on space needs and other project considerations. Property The property consists of approximately four (4) acres located at 116 W. Jones Street in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Education Campus shall include approximately 250,000 gross square feet of space, including 200,000 square feet of office space, and 1,004 parking spaces.
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The Associated Press ANGEL HOPE looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges. But on this test — a University of Wiscon sin exam that measures what new students learned in high school — all he could do was guess. It was like the disruption of the pandemic was catching up to him all at Nearlyonce.a third of Hope’s high school career was spent at home, in virtual classes that were hard to follow and easy to brush aside. Some days he skipped school to work extra hours at his job. Some days he played games with his brother and sister. Other days he just stayed in bed. Algebra got little of his atten tion, but his teachers kept giving him good grades amid a schoolwide push for leniency. “It was like school was optional. It wasn’t a mandatory thing,” said Hope, 18, of Milwaukee. “I feel like I didn’t really learn anything.”
Commission The Legislative Services Office Project Title North Carolina Education Campus – Advance Planning Phase Design Services Architecture, Engineering, and Planning Background
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starters, Hartman was ruled out due to an undisclosed medical condition.Theprogram didn’t elaborate on the issue, saying only that it was “unrelated to football” and that Hartman would miss “an ex tended period of time.” “Tuesday was a frustrating day, but I am extremely grateful for our medical staff and for Dr. Chris Miles and Niles Fleet for staying with me throughout this process,” Hartman said in a state ment. “I look forward to attacking this rehabilitation process and I am so appreciative of the support I have re ceived from my family, teammates and coach es.”After Hartman ap peared at practice that day, apparently in good spirits and moving around without any noticeable pain any where, Twitter doctors speculated that he’d suffered everything from appendicitis to blood clots. After practice, head coach Dave Clawson added more details but didn’t shed much more light on the situation. “He had a medical procedure that was non-football related,” he said. “We expect him to be back, but it’s too early to tell exactly what that timeline is.” “It impacts Notnoexpectationsourinsingleway.atall.”
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Dave coachWakeClawson,Forest Deacons confident despite loss of Hartman
Offense The East Carolina offense has experience in just about every area, starting at quarterback. Holton Ahlers returns for his fifth season with the Pirates and fourth as team captain. He’ll have plenty of targets to choose from. While Tyler Snead took his 201 catches and 18 touchdowns to the NFL, the Pirates get back C.J. Johnson, who returns from suspension.“Heearned it,” Houston said of the reinstatement. “It was not a very comfortable spring and June for him, but he did every thing we asked. He’s remorseful and doing a good job of keeping his mouth shut and letting his actions talk.” The receiving unit also adds a pair of grad transfers in Toledo’s Isaiah Winstead and Georgia’s Jaylen Johnson, who played in last year’s National Champion shipRunningGame. backs Rahjai Har ris and Keaton Mitchell, who Ahlers called the “best in the conference and maybe the coun try,” also return, and the team adds UNC transfer Kamarro Edmonds.Theline is deep, which is a luxury Houston appreciates. “We had five guys, period, my first year,” Houston said of the offensive line. “Now I say we don’t have five starters. We’re two deep — more than just five guys.”
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE knock onEarlywood.in fall camp, Wake For est offensive coordinator Warren Ruggiero was asked about the team’s quarterback depth and had praise for redshirt freshman Mitch“MitchGriffis.has really come along and is re ally feeling comfort able,” he said. “When you’re going up against the threes, it’s not the same. Once you move up, it moves a lot fast er.”Ruggiero was refer ring to Griffis moving up to the backup role after sharing that spot with son.Michaelthen-freshmanKernlastseaLittledidheknow that just one day later, Griffis would be making a much steeper jump. On Aug. 10, Wake Forest re leased a cryptic statement an nouncing that quarterback Sam Hartman would be out for the foreseeable future. One of the most experienced and most pro ductive passers in an Atlantic Division filled with returning
Defense ECU played a lot of guys on defense over the last few years, and that should pay off in in creased depth this season. The two big departures were line backer Bruce Bivens and safety Ja’Quan McMillian. Myles Berry and pass rusher Xavier Smith give the Pi rates a pair of senior linebackers. Smith returns to inside line backer after spending last season as a hybrid defensive end. The line should be fine without Smith, as three starters return, including Immanu el Hickman, who led ECU with 7.5 tackles for loss last year. The Pirates also add the Mims family to the line in freshman CJ and trans fer Shaundre, who arrives after graduating from Charleston Southern.Thesecondary returns Malik Fleming, Juan Powell and Jireh Wilson to a unit that had 15 in terceptions last season, although they’ll all be playing larger roles this season. Special Teams In addition to his contribu tions in the receiving game, Snead was the top return man for the Pirates. He brought back 17 of the team’s 20 kick returns and was the man for all the punt returns.Mitchell and Maceo Donald are the players on the roster who have returned a kick for ECU. With a roster packed with ex perience, the return game might be an area for a promising fresh man skill player to get his hands on the Kickerball.Owen Daffer returns after making first-team AllAAC last season. In his first year
“There’s no excuses not to play at a really high level right out of the gate.” Mike Houston, ECU coach See ECU, page B3 GERRY BROOME | AP PHOTO Coach Dave Clawson said the expectations for the Wake Forest football team have not changed despite the unexpected absense of star quarterback Sam Hartman.
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HOUSTON, WE HAVE a program.Aftertwo losing seasons as Pirates head coach, Mike Hous ton doubled his win total at East Carolina with seven wins last year.A good measure of just how far the program has come in three years is the lack of fresh men on the depth chart. “In 2020, we started a ton of freshmen,” Houston said. “They’re still here. So, in order for a freshman to play, they have to be a special player. We have a number of them that can play, but we don’t feel a need to push any body out there.”
BASEBALL Former Gardner‑Webb slugger hits for home run cycle Amarillo, Texas St. Louis Cardinals prospect Chandler Redmond hit for the home run cycle last Wednesday, crushing solo, two r un and three r un homers along with a grand slam in the Double A Springfield Redbirds’ 21 4 Texas League win. The Maryland,Middletown,nativeplayed at Gardner Webb from 2016 to 2019 and was drafted in the 32nd round by the Cardinals in 2019. Redmond is the second player to hit for the home run cycle, joining Tyrone Horne. Horne — who is from Troy, North Carolina — also accomplished the feat in the Texas League, doing so in 1998 with the Arkansas Travelers. Redmond has 17 home runs and 61 RBIs this season with Springfield, batting .240.
Now, Houston’s program is ready to take the next step and contend at the top of the AAC. “Year Four, we have a roster that’s been in the program that we’ve recruited and built,” Hous ton said. “They’re committed to what we’re trying to do here. We have great stability. It’s the first time we’ve had ex perience like this. I expect us to be a really good football team on Day One. There’s no excuses not to expect to play at a really high level right out of the gate.”
FOOTBALLCOLLEGE NC State 13th, Wake Forest 22nd in preseason AP poll New York NC State and Wake Forest are ranked higher at the start of the college football season than the schools have been in years in The Associated Press preseason poll released Monday. The 13th ranked Wolfpack are in the Top 25 in the preseason for the first time since 2003. NC State also matched its best preseason ranking — the Pack were also 13th in 1975 when the team finished 7 4 1 The Demon Deacons are ranked 22nd despite losing quarterback Sam Hartman to an undisclosed non football injury. It’s the first time Wake Forest has been ranked in the preseason poll since 2008, when it was No. 23. The Deacons finished that season 8 5. U NC (nine) and App State (four) were the only other schools from North Carolina to receive votes. Alabama is No. 1 with 54 first place votes, with Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson and Notre Dame rounding out the top five. Six SEC schools are ranked in the Top 25, while the ACC totaled five teams in the preseason poll.
East Carolina ready to make next step
KARL B. DEBLAKER | AP PHOTO Quarterback Holton Ahlers returns for a fifth season in Greenville looking to help coach Mike Houston and the Pirates continue their climb up the American Athletic Conference.
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QUOTABLESPOTENT Kevin Harvick won for the second straight week and the 60th time in his career, winning at Richmond to match Kyle Busch for the most Cup Series victories among active drivers. Harvick held off Christopher Bell for his fourth career win at Richmond but first since 2013. There are two races — Sunday at Watkins Glen and the following Saturday night at Daytona — before the start of the postseason.
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The NBA and the players association announced that Bill Russell’s No. 6 will be retired, the first number to be honored across the entire league. The Hall of Fame player and coach died July 31 at age 88. Players who currently wear No. 6 — including LeBron James — can continue to wear it but it will not be issued again. NBA CHARLES KRUPA | AP PHOTO “I’m truly sorry to all of the women that I have impacted.” Part of an apology from Browns DeshaunquarterbackWatsonfor his actions toward female massage therapists that resulted in 24 civil lawsuits. “Thanks to M.J. and Denny for continuing to believe in me.” Bubba Wallace after signing a multiyear contract extension to stay with 23XI Racing.
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The amount the Panthers have proposed to pay to creditors over the abandoned $800 million practice facility and headquarters in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Team owner David Tepper had invested more than $175 million in the half-built facility before the team backed out over disputes with the city and York County.
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TRENDING Robin Lehner: The Golden Knights goaltender will require hip surgery and is expected to miss the upcoming season, the team said Thursday. The 31-year old Lehner has three years remaining on a contract that carries a $5 million annual cap hit. He also underwent shoulder surgery during the offseason. Lehner started 44 games for the Golden Knights last season and finished 23 17-2. He has a 152 141 49 record and .917 save percentage over his NHL career. Tyson Fury: The heavyweightformer champion announced Friday he will “walk away” from boxing only three days after saying he was returning to the sport. Fury, who turned 34 the day of the retiringinwininitiallyundefeatedchangereasonFuryagainstorderreturningTuesdayhadannouncement,saidthepreviousthathewastoboxingintosetupafightDerekChisora.didnotgiveaforhisapparentofheart.TheFurysaidafterhisoverDillianWhyteAprilthathewasfromthesport.
Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. The All-Star shortstop, who has been on the injured list all season, cannot play in the majors this year. The 23-year-old tested positive for Clostebol.
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Zach Wilson: The New York Jets quarterback had arthroscopic surgery on his injured right knee Tuesday in Los Angeles. Wilson suffered a bone bruise and torn meniscus during the Jets’ second offensive series Friday night in their preseason opener at Philadelphia. Wilson, the second overall pick in last year’s draft, is currently expected to be out two to four weeks. He could play in the season opener against Baltimore on Sept. 11. Joe Flacco is the Jets’ backup. GOLF Will Zalatoris opened the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs with a win at the St. Jude Championship. The former Wake Forest golfer won a three-hole playoff over Sepp Straka, making a 7-foot bogey putt for his first career win. The victory moved him into the top 10 in the world rankings and first in the FedEx Cup standings.
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Christian Wells (12 catches for 243 yards last year) will be step ping into the top wideout role with fellow juniors Christan Horn and Dashaun Davis joining him on the depth chart. The running back corps should again be strong with the return of All-Sun Belt candidates Nate Noel, Camerun Peoples and Dae trich Harrington powering the Mountaineers’ pro-style scheme that helped the team finish sec ond in the conference last year in total offense and scoring. Wake Forest transfer Ahmani Mar shall will likely factor into the running game as well. Despite the losses at wide re ceiver, new App State offensive coordinator Kevin Barbay will still have quality weapons in his offense’s arsenal.
The Tar Heels return punter Ben Kiernan for his senior season, with Cole Maynard as his backup. Kicker Grayson Atkins departs after two grad transfer years with the Heels. That means Jon athan Kim will inherit the job. Kim has been the kickoff specialist most of the last two seasons. He got a brief trial at placekicker as a freshman in 2019 but missed his only field goal attempt. Two oth er walk-ons are on the roster at kicker. Drew Little is back for his senior season at long snapper, with two other options on the depth chart behind him. Josh Downs returned all of UNC’s punts last season and av eraged nearly 10 yards per return. Several Tar Heels took turns re turning kicks, including Ja’Quri ous Conley, Caleb Hood and the aforementioned Jones. No Tar Heel has returned a kick for a score since 2018, although UNC has been successful at blocking kicks under Brown. Expectations UNC picked a good year to be young. Yes, the Tar Heels will be breaking in a new quarterback, but so will most of the Coastal Di vision. Yes, Carolina is making a change at coordinator, but four di visional opponents have new head coaches.TheHeels have their toughest games at home and, other than a trip to App State that could be a trap, have a manageable noncon ferenceBrownslate.has vowed to find a cure for the penalty problem that plagued the Tar Heels last season, and Chizik should bring discipline and order to that side of the ball as he did seven years ago. There will be some growing pains on offense, but the step back on that side of the ball should be offset by an im provement on D.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW ECU from page B1 as the team’s kicker, he led the league in field goals, attempts and kick scoring, and he hit a 54-yard game-winner at the buzzer against Navy.John Young leaves after a sec ond-team All-ACC season as punt er. Australian Luke Larsen is ex pected to replace him. He’s punted 18 times for a 41.3-yard average in two seasons as Young’s backup. David Chapeau, a transfer from Air Force, is the only other punter on the roster. Expectations
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Sophomore Michael Hughes will step in as the team’s place kicker as Chandler Staton’s five seasons of eligibility expired last year.Meanwhile, redshirt senior Clayton Howell is promoted from the holding duties he’s held over the past few seasons to being the team’s punter. Back in 2018, Howell was named a Freshman All-American with a net average of 41.9 yards and an overall aver age of 43.6 yards as App State’s primary punter.
Appalachian State enters its third season under coach Shawn Clark By Jesse Deal North State Journal IN A SUN BELT Confer ence that is as expansive as ever thanks to the additions of James Madison, Old Dominion, South ern Miss and Marshall, the Ap palachian State Mountaineers are still riding high on the wave of momentum they’ve had since they joined the FBS conference in App2014.State — a perennial Sun Belt powerhouse that has accu mulated a 73-19 record over the past seven seasons — had won six straight bowl games before los ing to Western Kentucky in last year’s Boca Raton Bowl. Although they are missing 13 starters from the 2021 roster that took home the Sun Belt East title with a 10-4 overall record, the Mountaineers and third-year coach Shawn Clark are still ex pected to battle for a conference title while attempting to avenge last year’s Sun Belt Conference Championship Game loss to Louisiana. Offense Reigning Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year Chase Brice is back for his second year after a 2021 campaign in which he threw for an App State single-season re cord 3,337 passing yards to go with 27 touchdowns with 11 in terceptions.Theformer Duke and Clem son quarterback gets back most of his offensive line but lost his three top passing targets — Co rey Sutton, Thomas Hennigan and Malik Williams — to grad uation. The trio accounted for more than 73% (2,456) of the team’s receiving yards in 2021.
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The team tied for third in the American last season and earned a bowl bid — although the game was scratched due to COVID issues. The consensus seems to be that the Pirates will take a step back. They were chosen sixth in the preseason AACHouston’spoll. not buying that, how ever.“We haven’t cared about presea son stuff before,” he said. “We’re not going to start now. What we do on the field, we earn.” The team will undoubtedly be better this season as the depth that Houston spent three years building will pay dividends. The problem is a schedule that opens with NC State in what promises to be a tough, emotional noncon ference showdown. The rest of the schedule is backloaded with games against UCF and Houston, and trips to BYU, Cincinnati and Tem ple creating a tough stretch run. The Pirates should be able to put together another bowl season and put a scare into the AAC’s top tier as they threaten to crash the party in upcoming years.
Gene Chizik, pictured in 2015, has returned to Chapel Hill for a second tour of duty as the Tar Heels’ defensive coordinator.
The last time UNC’s defense was this bad, then-coach Larry Fedora brought in former national champion head coach Gene Chizik to serve as coordinator. Chizik made an immediate impact as the Heels improved on that side of the ball and won the Coastal Division. Might as well see if that trick will work again. After a brutal season by the Tar Heel defense, Brown placed a call to Chizik, who left after a few years with Fedora to spend more time with his family. Chizik has several returning players to work with, including Storm Duck — who battled inju ry most of last year — and Tony Grimes at corner along with Cam’Ron Kelly and Giovanni Big gers at safety. The secondary is the strength of the defense, although Cedric Gray will bring his 100 tackles back to linebacker, and a number of de fensive linemen got playing time last season and will look to take a step forward, including Kaimon Rucker, Myles Murphy and Chris Collins. Special Teams
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The Mountaineers limited opponents to just 22.1 points a game last year and ranked highly across the board in defensive cat egories in the Sun Belt, but App State’s defense will be in the re vamping stage after losing five of its top seven Linebackerstacklers.D’Marco Jackson (last season’s Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year) and T.D. Roof, and linemen Caleb Spurlin and Demetrius Taylor are all gone from the front seven. There is still experience at both positions, including at line backer where Nick Hampton, Brendan Harrington and Trey Cobb will need to step up and take on a bigger role. Cornerback Steven Jones Jr. is back for his senior year after helping a secondary that led the Sun Belt in pass efficiency de fense in 2021. Aside from Jones, however, the defensive backfield is thinner than it was last year after losing top corner Shaun Jolly along with starting safeties Kaiden Smith and Ryan Huff. Special Teams
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Expectations In a stacked division, App State is among the teams that have a shot at winning the Sun Belt East crown. For the Moun taineers, there are still some question marks on both sides of the ball — a lack of experience at wideout and in the secondary — but there is still enough talent for the team to compete for a confer enceWeekstitle. 1 and 2 will each be a test as UNC comes to Boone on Sept. 3 before the Mountain eers travel to No. 6 Texas A&M on Sept. 10. The team’s Sun Belt slate of games should be smooth sailing aside from hosting con ference challenger Georgia State (Oct. 19) and road games against Coastal Carolina (Nov. 3) and Marshall (Nov. 12). Being competitive against the Tar Heels and Aggies could give the Mountaineers the boost they need to run through the Sun Belt and return to a spot in the Top 25.
By Shawn Krest North State Journal LAST YEAR, UNC entered the season ranked in the top 10 with visions of a playoff berth and a Heisman campaign for their quar terback dancing in their heads. Instead, the Tar Heels lost their opener, won back-to-back games just once and inspired coach Mack Brown to point out that the media overrated his team heading into the year. The Heels saw their de fense implode and lost to South Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, capping a 6-7 season that left pret ty much everyone unhappy and saw their star quarterback leave for the NFL Draft. So what are they going to do for anCarolinaencore? has taken steps to improve a defense that was de plorable, by any measure, last sea son. But now question marks are popping up on an offense that has sent a parade of players to the NFL in the last two seasons, leaving young, unproven talent behind. Offense It’s probably easiest to let Brown lay out the situation on offense. “We have to shore up sacks,” he said. “We had too many tackles for loss. We’ve changed some things with our scheme. That should help our offensive line men. We lost four offensive line men. We lost a tailback. We lost some great receivers, but we’ve got a very, very talented but inexperi enced team coming back, so that starts at quarterback.” Sam Howell is gone, along with pretty much the entire UNC offen sive record book. The spring and fall camps were devoted to sorting out who will replace him. The top candidates are Drake Maye and Jacolby Criswell. Both saw limited time last season, with Criswell the primary backup to Howell. At running back, British Brooks and D.J. Jones were not consid ered ready for prime time last season, when the Heels brought in grad transfer Ty Chandler. Now that Chandler’s eligibility is ex pired, the duo will start the season logging carries for the Heels. The receiving corps is young but promising, although it took a hit when Antoine Green suffered an injury in fall camp that will keep him out six to 10 weeks.
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THE HURRICANES were the darlings of the postseason after trading for Brent Burns and Max Pacioretty. Carolina got a larger-than-life replacement for Tony DeAngelo in Burns, a 6-foot-5 blue line behemoth with a beard nearly as long. Pacioretty, meanwhile, gives the Hurricanes a prolific sniper who ranks 20th among active players with 323 goals over 14 NHL seasons with Montreal andTheVegas.latter was acquired from the Golden Knights along with defenseman Dylan Coghlan for future considerations — code for “nothing, but maybe do me a favor down the road” — and softened the blow of Carolina losing Vincent Trocheck, Nino Niederreiter and the combined 45 goals the duo took with them to New York and Nashville, respectively. That softened blow felt more like an uppercut when the Hurricanes announced last week that the 33-year-old Pacioretty would undergo surgery on a torn Achilles tendon. What seemed like a luxury addition instead now looks like a gaping hole, an arrow through Carolina’s plans to emerge from a disappointing postseason as an even stronger Stanley Cup contender in 2022-23. Instead of Pacioretty roaming the left wing of a line with Sebastian Aho, Jesperi Kotkaniemi or Jordan Staal, the Hurricanes’ biggest front-line addition will be watching from the press box until his recovery is complete. The knee-jerk reaction on social media was that Carolina needed to replace Pacioretty immediately, with names like Vladimir Tarasenko and Nazem Kadri rising to the top of the wish list. St. Louis’ Tarasenko (one year left with a $7.5 million cap hit) and Kadri (a free agent rumored to have a $7 million annual salary offer from the Islanders) could make mathematical sense if Pacioretty was lost for the season. But with Pacioretty’s $7 million cap hit due back on the books before the spring, neither are a logical fit. Which brings us to Pacioretty’s recovery time. The Hurricanes, in their press release announcing Pacioretty’s injury, said his “expected recovery time is six months.” That would bring the former Michigan Wolverines standout back into the fold in February. That didn’t stop many from suggesting Carolina should stash Pacioretty on long-term injured reserve until the end of the regular season — two months after he should be healthy — and use the $7 million in savings to add a player, and then bring Pacioretty back for the playoffs when the salary cap in no longer calculated.Butthat’s not happening, at least not to start the season. If Pacioretty were to suffer a setback in his recovery, LTIR could be an option for the Hurricanes. But with his return slated for February, Carolina will likely put Pacioretty on injured reserve and roll with what they have. So where will the lost goals come from without Pacioretty?Forone,Carolina believes Kotkaniemi can be a serviceable replacement for Trocheck. The 22-yearold logged just over 12 minutes a night last season and should see about a 50% boost in ice time. If his production equals his increased ice time, Kotkaniemi should finish in the 40- to 50-point range — on par with the 51 points Trocheck had last season.Niederreiter’s 24 goals — including 20 at even strength — also need to be replaced. The good news is the team can certainly expect more from Seth Jarvis, who had 17 goals as a rookie. The odds are Jarvis will be even better in 202223 due to a combination of experience and, like Kotkaniemi, more ice time. Since the 2010-11 season, only two rookies have played fewer minutes and put up more points than Jarvis’ 40 points in 943:30 minutes last season — Connor McDavid (48 points in 849:42 minutes in 2015-16) and Jason Robertson (45 points in 861:13 minutes in 2020-21). McDavid followed his rookie season with 100 points, and Robertson exploded for 41 goals and 79 points last year.Jarvis averaged under 14 minutes per game last season but should also move into the 17- to 18-minute range this year. It would be fair to expect 15 or so more points this season from Jarvis without even considering that he could have a breakout campaign like his two peers. The team’s two wild cards are Martin Necas and OndrejNecasKase.iscoming off a disappointing third NHL season in which he put up nearly identical numbers to the previous year but in 25 more games played. Necas has the talent to be at least a 20-goal and 50-point player, and he should be given every opportunity to do that in Pacioretty’s absence. Kase has the ability to play at that pace, but the question has been if he can stay healthy enough to put up those numbers over 82 games. The 26-yearold Kase has played more than 55 games in a season just once in his six-year career, and his lone 20-goal season was when he played a career-high 66 games in 2017-18.Onthesurface it seems like a lot needs to go right for the Hurricanes to replace Trocheck and Niederreiter’s output, and Pacioretty’s injury certainly makes that harder. But while the Hurricanes’ “need for goal scoring” has been echoing through Twitter since the team was knocked out of the postseason, the truth is Carolina was fourth in goals in Eastern Conference last season — more than the Capitals, Penguins, Bruins and Rangers. And come February, they should be getting back a 30-goalEveryonescorer.take a deep breath: The Carolina Hurricanes are going to be just fine.
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The Panthers will hold joint practices with the New England Patriots this week, and it could give new quarterback Baker Mayfield a chance to seize the starting job.
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THE GREAT Carolina Panthers quarterback battle of 2022 could be reaching its climax this week. That’s the opinion of Michael Lombardi, a former NFL execu tive who has overseen his share of quarterback competitions and may just have an ear inside the quarter back room with the Panthers. Lombardi began his NFL career as a scout for the Super Bowl teams of the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s and eventually became one of the key decision-makers for sev eral NFL franchises. He was gen eral manager and vice president of the Cleveland Browns, director of pro personnel with the Eagles and a senior personnel executive with the Raiders. Lombardi also worked on the New England Patri ots coaching staff, earning another Super Bowl ring in 2014. He’s been a member of the me dia since 2015, but he has two sons on current NFL coaching staffs, including Matt Lombardi, the as sistant quarterbacks coach for the CarolinaLombardiPanthers.spoke to the North State Journal at length about the Panthers, and, while he wouldn’t divulge any of what Matt and his bosses in Carolina might be think ing, the elder Lombardi is more than qualified to break down a quarterback competition. “You had the preseason game against Washington (last week end),” he said, “and then you’ve got a week of practice with New En gland, which will be critical.” The Panthers and Patriots are holding joint practices in advance of Friday’s second preseason game. It gives the coaching staffs and the front office a chance to see the play ers against unfamiliar foes, rather than the same teammates they’ve been working against for weeks or months.“Those practices will probably determine who’s the starting quar terback for the Panthers,” Lombar di declared.Thecompetition has been fairly even so far. Sam Darnold had an early advantage on the strength of his time in the Panthers’ offense. Darnold started the opener for Carolina last season and 11 games in all during a season plagued by injury and inconsistency. The Pan thers hired Ben McAdoo to be their offensive coordinator in the offsea son, which hit the reset button on any edge in experience Darnold might hold. Still, the incumbent spent the entire offseason learning McAdoo’s system, while his com petitor — former Browns starter and top pick Baker Mayfield — didn’t join the Panthers until just over a month ago. Mayfield seemed to struggle with the new system and its termi nology at the start of training camp but within a week seemed to have it mastered. That doesn’t surprise Lombardi.“It’salittle bit like language, right?” he said. “If you’ve been call ing something in Italian and then you go to China, and you’ve got to learn Chinese, it’s a little different. Or maybe it’s like Italian and Span ish. There’s some differences, but there’s similarities, too. So the ter minology is important, and once you do that, it’s like, ‘Yeah, OK. You guys are calling this Cadillac and we called it 25X.’ That’s when you can start processing all that information. They’re both smart. Both the quarterbacks are smart. Sam has been in the system since March, so, obviously, he knows it. But one thing about Baker May field: He’s smart. Baker will learn it. It’s not going to be hard for him.” By the second week of camp, Mayfield seemed to pull ahead, leading to rumors — since denied — that the Panthers were shopping Darnold. As a former personnel executive, Lombardi thinks that would have been an extreme way to conclude the quarterback derby. “I think there’s room for both of them,” he said. “If they fit on the (salary) cap now, why wouldn’t they fit on the cap later? And one thing we know about the National Foot ball League is sometimes you need two quarterbacks. Sometimes it’s hard (having just one). I’m not sure that whatever decision is made now is going to be the one that’s going to be the perfect decision in October.”Andregardless of what decision is made, Lombardi urges patience. “You can’t begin with the end in mind,” he said. “If you do, you’re going to make a bad decision. You open it (the starting job) and, with coaches, every day is an action item — they change their minds every day. ‘Oh, this guy’s the best!’ and the next day it’s, ‘No, this guy is.’ “So you’ve ultimately got to have some form of a guideline. And when you do that, then the practices and all the other things really start to manifest itself with a method to determine who the starting quar terback is going to be. I think it’s super early. You know fans want a quick answer, and there’s no quick answer. You’ve just got to give it time. The situations are going to determine the timeline.” This week’s situation, however, might just be one to watch closely. Of the specific ailment, Claw son said only, “It’s something that could happen to any one of us … something that came up a little unexpected.”Whatever sidelined Hartman, the fact of the matter is that Wake Forest will likely be starting its season without the 23-yearold sixth-year quarterback who passed for 39 touchdowns and 4,228 yards last season, both school records. He already holds the Demon Deacons’ career re cord for scoring passes and stood a good chance of breaking the school yardage record early this season.Until Hartman returns, the team is in the hands of Griffis, who arrived at Wake as a threestar recruit in 2020. He’s ap peared in four games each of the last two seasons, mostly in mop-up duty at the end of blow outs. He’s 4 of 15 for 56 yards in his college career and threw two passes — both incompletions — lastBehindseason.him is Kern, a redshirt sophomore in his fourth year with the program. He was also a threestar when he came to Wake in 2019 and has eight games of expe rience, throwing for 370 yards on 21-of-38 passing. Both quarter backs earned praise from Claw son after leading long drives in the spring game earlier this year. The head coach doesn’t seem to have any concerns about either quarterback getting the keys to the“Itoffense.impacts our expectations in no single way,” he said on the day the Hartman news broke. “Not at all. I don’t expect our team to be any less successful because of this. Not one guy on the field feels that way. That’s not coach speak — I mean that. We can win a lot of games with those two guys. We can beat good teams with those guys.” After the team’s first preseason scrimmage, which was dominat ed by the defense, Clawson re mained high on his quarterbacks. “I would say the (first) practice where Sam was out, he was a little bit shaky,” he said of Griffis. “But he was throwing darts and BBs. He’s going to be fine. The moment won’t be too big for him. … It was his first time with those guys, and we just have to load him with reps the next two to three weeks.” Wake has plenty of experi enced talent on offense. They all just need to get acquainted with Griffis, and vice versa. “Even though he’s going into his third year, he doesn’t have the accumulation of reps throw ing to (the starters),” Clawson said. “He’s run the plays, but he’s been throwing to (backups). The timing of the back shoulder fade, where the post is going, he’ll get there. We just need to rep him. “We’ve got an experienced of fensive line, really good running backs. A great tight end, good skill, an improved defense. It’s never a good thing, but we’re far better prepared to handle this than at any point during my time here.”Knock on wood.
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the law’s reduction in the govern ment’s budget deficit — by an es timated $300 billion over the next decade, according to the CBO — would put “downward pressure on inflation.” In theory, lower deficits can reduce inflation. That’s because lower government spending or higher taxes, which help shrink the deficit, reduce demand in the economy, thereby easing pressure on companies to raise prices. Yet Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was a top economic adviser to President George W. Bush and later a director of the CBO, noted that the lower deficits won’t kick in until five years from now and won’t be very large over the next decade considering the size of the economy.“$30billion a year in a $21 tril lion economy isn’t going to move the needle,” Holtz-Eakin said, re ferring to the estimated amount of deficit reduction spread over 10 years.He also noted that Congress has recently passed other legis lation to subsidize semiconduc tor production in the U.S. and ex pand veterans’ health care, and suggested that those laws will spend more than the Inflation Reduction Act will save. In addition, Kent Smetters, di rector of the Penn Wharton Bud get Model, said the law’s health care subsidies could send infla tion up. The legislation would spend $70 billion over a decade to extend tax credits to help 13 million Americans pay for health insurance under the Affordable CareThoseAct.subsidies would free up money for recipients to spend elsewhere, potentially increasing inflation, although Smetters said he thought the effect would likely be very Whilesmall.the act could have the benefit of increasing the sav ings of millions of households on pharmaceutical and energy costs, it’s unlikely to have much effect on overall inflation. Prescription drugs account for only 1% of the spending in the U.S. consumer price index; spending on electric ity and natural gas makes up just 3.6%.Starting in 2025, the act will cap the amount Medicare re cipients would pay for their pre scription drugs at $2,000 a year. It will authorize Medicare to ne gotiate the cost of some highpriced pharmaceuticals — a long-sought goal that President Donald Trump had also floated. It would also limit Medicare re cipients’ out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 a month. Insu AP PHOTO
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ONE THING IS CERTAIN; after this COVID-19 virus dissipates around the globe and in the United States, China will pay for this catastrophe one way or another. In order to put the crisis caused by China in perspective, zero worldwide pandemics can trace their source to the United States over our 231-year history. At least four in the 20th century alone can be directly traced to China: 1957 “Asian u,” 1968 “Hong Kong u,” 1977 “Russian u” and the 2002 SARS outbreak. There is evidence that the massive 1918 “Spanish u” pandemic also had its origins in China. There is 100% agreement, outside of China, that COVID-19 originated in Wuhan Province probably from the completely unregulated and unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a The cavalier manner in which China virus, covered up its spread and tried 3,341 related deaths has led to worldwide millions of Americans needlessly The crisis has cost the U.S. taxpayer debt plus trillions more in Federal markets and nancial outlets. If the currency, we would not be able to measures without immediate fear depreciation.Chinahasto pay for their aberrant economic and nancial means. Diplomacy to bring China into the civilized world and fair trade. Totalitarian communist or express sincere regret and remorse, totalitarian governments do. They they nd in adversaries and keep That is, unless an exogenous event meltdown in 1986. Some experts program of Reagan, led directly to Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. Senators in Washington are already of China forgiving $1.2 trillion in China to “pay” for the damage they breath waiting for a Chinese “Jubilee” representatives to hold China accountable It is about time they are expected the world like any other modern nation.
AMERICA’S COLLEGES are rife with corruption. The nancial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 o ers opportunities for a bit of remediation. Let’s rst examine what might be the root of academic corruption, suggested by the title of a recent study, “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship.” The study was done by Areo, an opinion and analysis digital magazine. By the way, Areo is short for Areopagitica, a speech delivered by John Milton in defense of free speech. Authors Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian say that something has gone drastically wrong in academia, especially within certain elds within the humanities. They call these elds “grievance studies,” where scholarship is not so much based upon nding truth but upon attending to social grievances. Grievance scholars bully students, administrators and other departments into adhering to their worldview. The worldview they promote is neither scienti c nor rigorous. Grievance studies consist of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, gender studies, queer studies, sexuality and critical race studies.In2017 and 2018, authors Pluckrose, Lindsay and Boghossian started submitting bogus academic papers to academic journals in cultural, queer, race, gender, fat and sexuality studies to determine if they would pass peer review and be accepted for publication. Acceptance of dubious research that journal editors found sympathetic to their intersectional or postmodern leftist vision of the world would prove the problem of low academic standards. Several of the fake research papers were accepted for publication. The Fat Studies journal published a hoax paper that argued the term bodybuilding was exclusionary and should be replaced with “fat bodybuilding, as a fat-inclusive politicized performance.” One reviewer said, “I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article and believe it has an important contribution to make to the eld and this journal.”“OurStruggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” was accepted for publication by A lia, a feminist journal for social workers. The paper consisted in part of a rewritten passage from Mein Kampf. Two other hoax papers were published, including “Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at Urban Dog Parks.” This paper’s subject was dog-on-dog rape. But the dog rape paper eventually forced Boghossian, Pluckrose and Lindsay to prematurely out themselves. A Wall Street Journal writer had gured out what they were doing. Some papers accepted for publication in academic journals advocated training men like dogs and punishing white male college students for historical slavery by asking them to sit in silence on the oor in chains during class and to be expected to learn from the discomfort. Other papers celebrated morbid obesity as a healthy life choice and advocated treating privately conducted masturbation as a form of sexual violence against women. Typically, academic journal editors send submitted papers out to referees for review. In recommending acceptance for publication, many reviewers gave these papers glowing praise.Political scientist Zach Goldberg ran certain grievance studies concepts through the Lexis/Nexis database, to see how often they appeared in our press over the years. He found huge increases in the usages of “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” “critical race theory” and “whiteness.” All of this is being taught to college students, many of whom become primary and secondary school teachers who then indoctrinate our young people. I doubt whether the coronaviruscaused nancial crunch will give college and university administrators, who are a crossbreed between a parrot and jelly sh, the guts and backbone to restore academic respectability. Far too often, they get much of their political support from campus grievance people who are members of the faculty and diversity and multicultural administrative o ces. The best hope lies with boards of trustees, though many serve as yes-men for the university president. I think that a good start would be to nd 1950s or 1960s catalogs. Look at the course o erings at a time when college graduates knew how to read, write and compute, and make them today’s curricula. Another helpful tool would be to give careful consideration to eliminating all classes/majors/minors containing the word “studies,” such as women, Asian, black or queer studies. I’d bet that by restoring the traditional academic mission to colleges, they would put a serious dent into the COVID-19 budget shortfall. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. WALTER E. WILLIAMS
The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dem ocrats have pulled off a quiet first in their just-passed legislation addressing climate change and health care: the creation of a tax on stock buybacks, a cherished tool of Corporate America that had long seemed untouchable. Under the bill President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday, companies will face a new 1% ex cise tax on purchases of their own shares, effectively paying a penal ty for a maneuver that they have long used to return cash to inves tors and bolster their stock price. The tax takes effect in 2023. Buybacks have ballooned in recent years — they’re forecast to reach $1 trillion in 2022 — as companies have swelled with cash from sky-high profits. Investors, including pension and retirement funds, like the buybacks. But fiery critics of big corporations and Wall Street like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ber nie Sanders loathe them, calling the practice “paper manipulation” to enrich senior executives and big shareholders.CentristDemocrats, too, such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have long criticized buy backs.Democrats say that instead of returning cash to sharehold ers, big companies should use the money to increase employees’ wages or invest in the business. They are hoping the excise tax — it’s projected to bring the govern ment an additional $74 billion in revenue over 10 years — will cause a major shift in corporate behav ior.But some experts are skepti cal that the tax will work as in tended. They note that businesses have other methods for rewarding shareholders, raising the prospect that legislation aimed at halting one corporate stock practice could instead facilitate another, with new and unpredictable effects on the economy.
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WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders thanks to local or state governments, a majority of Americans are having to adjust to what is being called the “new normal.” Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month.
Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during a recent coronavirus press brie ng that “we just don’t know yet” if the state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the justi cation for it. And the answers should not be vague ones like “we must do this out of an abundance of caution.” It will need to be explained in detail to the people of this state who are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined amount of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases areToreliable.date,I’ve gone along with what the state has asked and then mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about the data. State Republican leaders have, too. Unfortunately, when certain types of questions get asked, there is sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back to normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people who otherwise don’t care if they get themselves or others sick.
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normal shelter-in-place or stay-at-home majority of course,societylevelsCooperendnormal.”Americansofthismonth.statedduringknowyet”iftheaskedastothevagueoneslike“weofthisstatewhoundeterminedthousandsofcasesaskedandthenquestionsaboutasked,thereistotreatthosestartgettingbackarepeoplewhosick.becomeabadweresupposedismyfamily.I’mworriedIwill.After2009pandemic,ofthisbringsupprefernottorepeat.mosteveryonehas fallen into place. I understand the seriousness of the virus and the need to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask questions about the data, and when things can start getting back to normal are treated in some circles with contempt. They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept without question what the government tells us about when it’s safe to begin the process of returning back to normalcy. No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such as Michigan, the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand answers.Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer with details that give their statements believability. We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should also still continue to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, shape, or form. So while we should remain vigilant and stay safe, at the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-called “new normal.”Notone little bit. Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.
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Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during a recent coronavirus press brie ng that “we just don’t know yet” if the state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the justi cation for it. And the answers should not be vague ones like “we must do this out of an abundance of caution.” It will need to be explained in detail to the people of this state who are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined amount of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about Unfortunately, when certain types of questions get asked, there is sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back to normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people who Since when did questioning government at all levels become a bad thing? That is what free citizens living in a free society were supposed My rst concern as we go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m worried about them catching the virus, and I’m worried I will. After su ering from the H1N1 virus (swine u) during the 2009 pandemic, I’ve been trying to take extra precautions, because all of this brings up way 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
“THIS IS THE DAY the lord has made, let us rejoice in it” (Psalm 118:24). I know that during this challenging time of social working from home or losing a job, it may be di be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. However, as a Christian, and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst pandemic.Forme,my faith is an important part of my daily making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts a iction, so that we may be able to comfort those a iction, with the comfort which we ourselves are God.”Ifyou are celebrating the Easter season, I urge re ect on this message and be comforted, so that God’s example and comfort all those in need around this di cult time. Through faith and by helping one con dent we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by neighbors helping neighbors. In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face health care workers out of his own home.
How it all plays out could be significant for the future land scape of big U.S. companies, their employees and their shareholders, and for the political staying power of one of the signature legislative initiatives of Biden and his Demo cratic majorities in Congress. Companies have been plow ing more of their cash into buy ing their own stock even as they’ve grappled with rising in flation, higher interest rates and the potential for stunted econom ic growth. They’ve faced higher expenses for raw materials, ship ping and labor. Companies have largely been able to pass those costs on to their customers, but higher prices for food, clothing and everything else could threat en consumer spending — with re sulting crimped sales growth for many companies. Americans are still spending, though more tepid ly, the latest government reports show.Buybacks can increase compa nies’ earnings per share because there are fewer shares universal ly held by shareholders. The buy backs can also signal confidence from executives about a compa ny’s financial prospects. Because the new excise tax will be calculated on the smaller, net amount of a company’s buybacks — total repurchases minus shares issued during the year — some companies may see it as mod est hit worth taking and continue purchasing stock. The tax won’t apply to stock contributed to retirement ac counts, pensions and employee stock-ownership plans. After surveying its analysts about the tax, RBC Capital Mar kets suggested that companies may grumble about it, but “it’s un likely to impact planning.” One thing is all but certain: With the new tax scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, companies have a deadline for buying back their stock tax-free. That means a flur ry of buybacks could come in the months ahead.
The 3 big questions nobody THIS WEEK, according to members of the federal and state and local governments, Americans have the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. The excitement muted — after all, trends can easily reverse — but have abided by recommendations and orders. They’ve to stay at home; they’ve practiced social distancing; they’ve donned masks. The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization According to the University of Washington Institute Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members Trump administration, the expected need for hospital peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers questions that will allow the economy to reopen. First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? important because it determines whether certain be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number of deaths the number of identi ed COVID-19 cases — but both and the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know people have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources number has been overestimated, given that classi of death, particularly among elderly patients, can sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, Even more importantly, we have no clue how many actually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest of identi ed cases could be an order of magnitude number of people who have had coronavirus and not Lenten and Easter messageprovideseasonsaof “THIS IS THE DAY in it” (Psalm 118:24). I know that during working from home be glad” as the Bible and dad, the Easter have to be thankful and pandemic.Forme,my faith is making. As I celebrated Corinthians 1:4, which a iction, so that we a iction, with the comfort If you are celebrating re ect on this message God’s example and comfort this di cult time. Through con dent we will emerge In this same spirit, neighbors helping neighbors. In Concord, a high money to buy a 3-D health care workers by 15, 2020 opinion
The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades, Congress gave final approval to President Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act last week. Its ti tle raises a tantalizing question: Will the measure actually tame the price spikes that have inflict ed hardships on American house holds?Economic analyses of the pro posal suggest that the answer is likely no — not anytime soon, anyway.Thelegislation, which headed this week to the White House for Biden’s signature, won’t direct ly address some of the main driv ers of surging prices — from gas and food to rents and restaurant meals.Still, the law could save mon ey for some Americans by lessen ing the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly, extending health insurance subsidies and reducing energy prices. It would also mod estly cut the government’s budget deficit, which might slightly low er inflation by the end of this de cade.The nonpartisan Congressio nal Budget Office concluded last week that the changes would have a “negligible” impact on inflation this year and next. And the Uni versity of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model conclud ed that, over the next decade, “the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero.” Such forecasts also undercut the arguments that some Repub licans, such as House Minori ty Leader Kevin McCarthy have made, that the bill would “cause inflation,” as McCarthy said in a speech on the House floor last month.Biden himself, in speaking of the legislation’s effect on infla tion, has cautiously referred to potentially lower prices in indi vidual categories rather than to lower inflation as a whole. This week, the president said the bill would “bring down the cost of prescription drugs, health in surance premiums and energy costs.”Atthe same time, the White House has trumpeted a letter signed by more than 120 econ omists, including several Novel Prize winners and former Trea sury secretaries, that asserts that
U.S. officials have been in negotiations for months with China and Hong Kong, as Beijing refuses to allow regulators to see records of their corporate auditors as required by U.S. law
AP PHOTO Lina Khan, then-nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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AP PHOTO A Chinese Communist Party badge is pinned to a worker’s uniform at the Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical Company on the outskirts of Beijing on May 25, 2018. lin prescriptions averaged $54 in 2020, according to the Kaiser Family“ThisFoundation.isahistoric change,” said Leigh Purvis, director of health care costs at the AARP Public Policy Institute. “This is allowing Medicare to protect beneficiaries from high drug prices in a way that was not there before.” A study by Kaiser found that in 2019, 1.2 million Medicare recip ients spent an average of $3,216 on drug prescriptions. Purvis said recipients who use the most expensive drugs can spend as much as $10,000 or $15,000 a year.The legislation authorizes Medicare to negotiate prices of 10 expensive pharmaceuticals, starting next year, though the re sults won’t take effect until 2026. Up to 60 drugs could be subject to negotiation by 2029. Holtz-Eakin argued that while the provision may lower the cost of some Medicare drugs, it would discourage the development of new drugs or reduce new venture capital investment in start-up pharmaceutical companies. The Inflation Reduction Act’s energy provisions could also cre ate savings, though the amounts are likely to be much smaller. The bill will provide a $7,500 tax credit for new purchases of electric vehicles, though most EVs won’t qualify because the legislation requires them to in clude batteries with U.S. materi als.And the legislation also sig nificantly expands a tax credit for homeowners who invest in ener gy-efficient equipment, from a one-time $500 credit to $1,200 that a homeowner could claim each year. Vincent Barnes, se nior vice president for policy at the Alliance to Save Energy, said this would allow homeowners to make new energy-efficient in vestments over several years. But for all Americans, includ ing those who aren’t homeown ers, the impact will likely be limited. The Rhodium Group es timates that by 2030 the bill’s provisions will save households an average of up to $112 a year as gas and electricity becomes cheaper as more Americans drive EVs and houses become more en ergy- efficient. Chinese corporate giants leaving NY stock exchange
The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big techHowcompanies.thatdata is being used and protected has led to growing public concern and officials’ out rage. And now federal regula tors are looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveil lance and lax data security. The Federal Trade Commis sion announced the initiative Thursday, seeking public com ment on the effects of compa nies’ data collection and the po tential benefit of new rules to protect consumers’ privacy. The FTC defines commercial surveillance as “the business of collecting, analyzing and profit ing from information about peo ple.”In Congress, bipartisan con demnation of the data power of Meta — the parent of Face book and Instagram — Google and other tech giants that have earned riches by aggregating consumer information used by online advertisers, has brought national data privacy legislation to its closest point ever to pas sage.Around the country, parents’ concern has deepened over the impact of social media on chil dren. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist, stunned Congress and the public last fall when she exposed internal com pany research showing apparent serious harm to some teens from Instagram. Those revelations were followed by senators grill ing executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat about what they’re doing to ensure young users’ safety in the wake of suicides and other harms to teens attributed by their parents to their usage of the platforms. As concerns rise, social me dia platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are adding new features they say will make their services safer and more age appropriate. But the chang es rarely address the algorithms pushing endless content that can drag anyone, not just teens, into harmful rabbit holes. The Democratic members of the FTC said Thursday it’s im perative for Congress to pass a new law, but that the agency was taking action in the meantime by issuing the notice of proposed rules.“Mass surveillance has height ened the risks and stakes of data breaches, deception, manipula tion and other abuses,” FTC offi cials said in a statement. Agency officials noted that the FTC has brought hundreds of enforcement actions against companies over the last two de cades for violations of privacy and data security. They includ ed cases involving the sharing of health-related data with third parties, the collection and shar ing of sensitive TV viewing data for targeted advertising, and failure to put in adequate secu rity measures to protect sensi tive data such as Social Securi ty However,numbers. the officials said, the FTC’s ability to deter ille gal conduct is limited because it generally lacks authority to seek financial penalties for initial vio lations of law. That could change if the comprehensive privacy leg islation were to clear Congress. “Firms now collect person al data on individuals at a mas sive scale and in a stunning ar ray of contexts,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in an online news conference. “Our goal today is to begin building a robust pub lic record to inform whether the FTC should issue rules to ad dress commercial surveillance and data security practices, and what those rules should poten tially look like.” “We are very, very eager to hear from the public,” Khan said.Topics of interest could in clude how companies use algo rithms and automated systems to analyze the information they collect, and the potential effects of various data practices. Khan, who was an outspoken critic of Big Tech as a law profes sor, was appointed by President Joe Biden last year to head the FTC — an independent agen cy that polices competition and consumer protection as well as digital privacy. The rulemaking proposal was adopted in a 3-2 vote by the five FTC commissioners. Khan and the other two Democrats voted to issue it, while the two Repub licans opposed it. On Tuesday, Snapchat intro duced new parental controls in what it calls the “Family Cen ter” — a tool that lets parents see who their teens are messaging, though not the content of the messages themselves. Both par ents and their children have to opt into the service. week looking at rules to corral tech firms’ data collection
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The Associated Press BEIJING — Three stateowned Chinese corporate giants announced plans Friday to re move their shares from the New York Stock Exchange, adding to a growing financial separation between the biggest global econ omies in the midst of a dispute over scrutiny of company audits. PetroChina Ltd., China Life Insurance Ltd. and China Petro leum & Chemical Co. made no mention of the auditing dispute or U.S.-Chinese tensions over Taiwan, security, technology and human rights. The companies, in similarly worded statements issued with in 30 minutes of each other, cit ed the small trading volume of their shares in New York. They said shares still would be traded in Hong Kong, which is open to non-ChineseWashingtoninvestors.haswarned Chi nese companies including Ali baba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, might be forced to leave U.S. stock ex changes if Beijing refuses to al low regulators to see the records of their corporate auditors. American authorities say oth er governments have agreed to that step, which is required by U.S. law, and China and Hong Kong are the only holdouts. Chi na says talks are making prog ress but U.S. officials say import ant issues are unresolved. Americans also are barred under a November 2020 or der by then-President Donald Trump from investing in the stocks, bonds and other securi ties of dozens of companies cited by the Pentagon as possibly sup porting China’s military develop ment. The three companies that announced their departure from U.S. markets on Friday aren’t on thatFriday’sblacklist.announcement fol lows moves by Chinese compa nies that are increasing the role of Hong Kong in connecting them with foreign investors. China’s biggest ride-hail ing service, Didi Chuxing, left the New York Stock Exchange on June 10 and joined the Hong Kong exchange. Alibaba an nounced plans in July to upgrade the status of its Hong Kong-trad ed shares to make them accessi ble to mainland investors. PetroChina, China Life and China Petroleum & Chemical, known as Sinopec, said the se curities affected were American depositary shares, or ADS, that represented shares traded in Hong Kong. They said the Hong Kong shares still would be trad ed.The Chinese securities regu lator said their decision to leave the U.S. stock market is “based on their own commercial consid erations.” In a brief statement, it promised to “maintain commu nication” with foreign regulators to “jointly safeguard the legiti mate rights and interests of en terprises and PetroChinainvestors.”citedthe expense of complying with rules in mul tiple stock Exchangesmarkets.in Hong Kong and Shanghai are “strong al ternatives” that can “satisfy the company’s fundraising re quirements,” the PetroChina an nouncement said. Private companies includ ing Alibaba have raised billions of dollars on U.S. exchanges be cause they were largely shut out of the Chinese financial system, which serves state-owned com panies.Foreign stock exchanges mat ter less to state-owned compa nies. Shares traded in China or Hong Kong usually represent the bulk of their market value. The New York Stock Exchange announced plans in January 2021 to end trading of shares of China’s three main state-owned phone carriers under Trump’s or der. The exchange temporarily withdrew the plan but later said the expulsion would go ahead.
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The Associated Press NEW YORK — Two Ama zon-owned companies — Ring and Hollywood studio MGM — are teaming to create a TV show in the mold of “Ameri ca’s Funniest Home Vid eos” using viral footage from Ring’s doorbell and smart-home cameras. The half-hour show, called “Ring Nation,” will be hosted by ac tor and comedian Wan da Sykes and premier in syndication on Sept. 26, MGM said. The studio noted au diences should expect to see the usual things that go viral — marriage pro posals, neighbors saving neighbors and silly ani mals.The series showcas es Amazon’s fusion of its various business arms, this time to highlight what MGM called “in teresting moments from communities across the country.”“Youhave one com pany that owns two juggernauts and (has) just figured out how to leverage one against the other,” said Robert Passikoff, president of the brand research firm Brand Keys. He noted that unlike scripted movies or shows, a reality se ries using Ring footage will likely be cheaper to produce. The show also presents a branding opportunity for the Se attle-based e-commerce and re tail giant, which bought Ring in 2018 for $1 billion and has dealt with rounds of privacy concerns around Ring and its relationship with police departments across the country.Last month, Amazon revealed it had provid ed Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission — all in response to emer gency requests, accord ing to the company. MGM, which Amazon purchased for $8.5 bil lion, said in a statement Thursday that “Ring Na tion” will offer audienc es “daily dose of life’s unpredictable, heart warming and hilarious viral videos” shared by people from their cam eras.“Many of these have been previously shared online,” Amazon spokes person Nick Schweers said. “Others were sent directly to the team.” Ring Nation secures per missions for each video from the owner and anyone iden tifiable in the video, or from com panies that hold the rights to the clips, he Amazon’ssaid. deal to purchase MGM was closed earlier this year, though the Federal Trade Com mission has said it still retains discretion to challenge it. Big Fish Entertainment, a production company owned by MGM, will also be part of the partnership.
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AP PHOTO Salman Rushdie attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on Nov. 15, 2017, in New York.
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The Associated Press AS CONCERNS about social media’s harmful effects on teens continue to rise, platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are bolting on new features they say will make their services saf er and more age appropriate. But the changes rarely address the el ephant in the the room — the al gorithms pushing endless con tent that can drag anyone, not just teens, into harmful rabbit holes. The tools do offer some help, such as blocking strangers from messaging kids. But they also share some deeper flaws, starting with the fact that teenagers can get around limits if they lie about their age. The platforms also place the burden of enforcement on par ents. And they do little or nothing to screen for inappropriate and harmful material served up by algorithms that can affect teens’ mental and physical well-being. “These platforms know that their algorithms can sometimes be amplifying harmful content, and they’re not taking steps to stop that,” said Irene Ly, priva cy counsel at the nonprofit Com mon Sense Media. The more teens keep scrolling, the more engaged they get — and the more engaged they are, the more profitable they are to the platforms, she said. “I don’t think they have too much in centive to be changing that.” Take, for instance, Snapchat, which last week introduced new parental controls in what it calls the “Family Center” — a tool that lets parents see who their teens are messaging, though not the content of the messages them selves. One catch: both parents and their children have to opt into to the Nonaservice.Farahnik Yadegar, Snap’s director of platform policy and so cial impact, likens it to parents
wanting to know who their kids are going out with. If kids are headed out to a friend’s house or are meeting up at the mall, she said, parents will typically ask, “Hey, who are you going to meet up with? How do you know them?” The new tool, she said, aims to give parents “the insight they really want to have in order to have these conversations with their teen while preserving teen privacy and autonomy.” These conversations, experts agree, are important. In an ide al world, parents would regularly sit down with their kids and have honest talks about social media and the dangers and pitfalls of the online world. But many kids use a bewil dering variety of platforms, all of which are constantly evolving — and that stacks the odds against parents expected to master and monitor the controls on multiple platforms, said Josh Golin, exec utive director of children’s digital advocacy group Fairplay. “Far better to require platforms to make their platforms safer by design and default instead of in creasing the workload on already overburdened parents,” he said. The new controls, Golin said, also fail to address a myriad of ex isting problems with Snapchat. These range from kids misrep resenting their ages to “compul sive use” encouraged by the app’s Snapstreak feature to cyberbully ing made easier by the disappear ing messages that still serve as Snapchat’s claim to fame. Farahnik Yadegar said Snap chat has “strong measures” to de ter kids from falsely claiming to be over 13. Those caught lying about their age have their account im mediately deleted, she said. Teens who are over 13 but pretend to be even older get one chance to cor rect their age.
Detecting such lies isn’t fool proof, but the platforms have sev eral ways to get at the truth. For instance, if a user’s friends are mostly in their early teens, it’s like ly that the user is also a teenager, even if they said they were born in 1968 when they signed up. Com panies use artificial intelligence to look for age mismatches. A per son’s interests might also reveal their real age. And, Farahnik Ya degar pointed out, parents might also find out their kids were fib bing about their birth date if they try to turn on parental controls but find their teens ineligible. Child safety and teen mental health are front and center in both Democratic and Republicans cri tiques of tech companies. States, which have been much more ag gressive about regulating tech nology companies than the fed eral government, are also turning their attention to the matter. In March, several state attorneys general launched a nationwide investigation into TikTok and its possible harmful effects on young users’ mental health. TikTok is the most popular so cial app U.S. teenagers use, ac cording to a new report out Wednesday from the Pew Re search Center, which found that 67% say they use the Chi nese-owned video sharing plat form. The company has said that it focuses on age-appropriate ex periences, noting that some fea tures, such as direct messaging, are not available to younger users. It says features such as a screentime management tool help young people and parents moderate how long children spend on the app and what they see. But critics note such controls are leaky at best. “It’s really easy for kids to try to get past these features and just go off on their own,” said Ly of Com mon Sense Media.
Authors, activists and gov ernment officials cited Rushdie’s bravery and longtime champion ing of free speech in the face of in timidation. Writer and longtime friend Ian McEwan labeled Rush die “an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journal ists” and actor-author Kal Penn called him a role model, “especial ly many of us in the South Asian diaspora.”“Salman Rushdie — with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced — stands for essen tial, universal ideals,” U.S. Presi dent Joe Biden said in a Saturday statement. “Truth. Courage. Re silience. The ability to share ideas withoutRushdie,fear.”who was born in In dia to a Muslim family and has lived in Britain and the U.S., is known for his surreal and satir ical prose, beginning with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 nov el “Midnight’s Children,” in which he sharply criticized then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Infused with magical realism, 1988’s “The Satanic Verses” drew ire from some Muslims who re garded elements of the novel as blasphemy.Theybelieved Rushdie insult ed the Prophet Muhammad by naming a character Mahound, a medieval corruption of “Muham mad.” The character was a proph et in a city called Jahilia, which in Arabic refers to the time be fore the advent of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula. Another se quence includes prostitutes that share names with some of Mu hammad’s nine wives. The nov el also implies that Muhammad, not Allah, may have been the Qu ran’s real author. The book had already been banned and burned in India, Pa kistan and elsewhere when Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho meini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989. Khomeini died that same year, but the fatwa remains in effect — though Iran, in recent years, hadn’t focused on Rushdie. Iran’s state-run newspaper, Iran Daily, praised the attack as an “implementation of divine de cree” Sunday. Another hardline newspaper, Kayhan, termed it “di vine revenge” that would partially calm the anger of Muslims. Matar was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Leba non, village mayor Ali Tehfe told the AP. Flags of the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hezbollah, along with portraits of Hezbol lah and Iranian leaders, were vis ible across Yaroun before journal ists visiting Saturday were asked to Hezbollahleave. spokespeople did not respond to requests for com ment. Lebanon’s top Shiite Muf ti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan vilified Rushdie in a speech Sunday with out directly endorsing the attack, saying the author was “the cheap est and worst personality to deal with history and heritage by fab ricating lies and hypocrisies.”
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The Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recov ery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York. The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Sat urday and able to talk. Literary agent Andrew Wylie cautioned that although Rushdie’s “condi tion is headed in the right direc tion,” his recovery would be long. Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and in an eye that he was likely to lose, Wylie had previously said. “Though his life changing inju ries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact,” Rushdie’s son Zafar Rush die said in a Sunday statement that stressed the author remained in critical condition. The fami ly statement also expressed grat itude for the “audience members who bravely leapt to his defence,” as well as police, doctors and “the outpouring of love and support.” Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called “a targeted, un provoked, preplanned attack” at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center. The attack was met with glob al shock and outrage, along with praise for the man who, for more than three decades — includ ing nine years in hiding under the protection of the British gov ernment — has weathered death threats and a $3 million boun ty on his head over “The Satanic Verses.”“It’san attack against his body, his life and against every value that he stood for,” Henry Reese, told The Associated Press. The cofounder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum was on stage with Rush die and suffered a gash to his fore head, bruising and other minor injuries. They had planned to dis cuss the need for writers’ safety and freedom of expression.
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The walls are adorned with cham pionship trophies and plates filled with some of the tastiest catfish and house-made pickles around. Their brisket was pretty delicious too.Finally, I hit the two-fer jack pot in Kansas City at Q39, which has deep-fried heaven itself with pork belly and sausage corn dogs (those are two different types of corn doggies, by the way). Served with real maple syrup and bbq sauce, which should just be mixed if I have anything to say about it, I could have had two or three serv ings of those, and I’d have been happy.Finally, I went to the world-fa mous Arthur Bryant’s barbecue, where I got grumped at by the staff and enjoyed the best ribs I’ve ever tasted. It was mind-boggling ly good and the epitome of Kan sas City barbecue. I can’t recom mend it highly enough if you’re in theThrougharea. it all, my Ford F-150 was quiet and comfortable, with no fatigue even on 12-hour sprints across the desert. The 36-gallon fuel tank helped tremendously, and I scored about 14 mpg on the trip, pretty good considering I was towing a 4,000-pound car on a 2,000-pound U-Haul auto trailer. The lane-centering tech works while towing and while it isn’t fully hands-free like GM’s Super Cruise is, I didn’t need to put in much steering input for much of the drive, aside from minor cor rections and to remind the system that I was still paying attention. On long straights, I’d rest my hand on the wheel and give it a little tug every 10 or 15 seconds. It resulted in a far more relaxing trip than it would otherwise have been. Between that and the litany of storage spots (including six cup holders for the front two seats and massive door pockets that can easily fit even the most enor mous Evian bottles), power ports (a half-dozen USB and two 120volt home power outlets), I dare say there isn’t a better road trip ve hicle than the Ford F-150. God bless America.
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TAKE NOTICE NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 22 SP 260 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Cosandra A. Burt and Michael D. Burt (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Cosandra A. Burt and Michael D. Burt) to Donald Stephen Bunce, Trustee(s), dated September 21, 1998, and recorded in Book No. 1487, at Page 901 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 September 1, 2022 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 21, as shown on a map entitled, Pease Manor of Northside, Phase 1, as the same is recorded in Plat Book 25, Page 14, Slide D-202, of the Onslow County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 105 Arlington Court, Jacksonville, 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.”
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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 AnPropertyorder 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.
A cross-country BBQ adventure
The Interior Work Surface ($165) is handy as it transforms your center console into a big flat desk. Even better, the XLT is one of the few F-150s to have a col umn-mounted shifter, which means the desk can be open while you drive along. While many a contractor will use it for work, I found it exceptionally helpful for eatingThat’sbarbecue.because I wasn’t making this a cross-country sprint. No, I was turning this into a marathon of deliciousness, stopping at sev eral tasty spots for barbecue along the route. I went to Kreuz Market in Lockhart, Texas, and enjoyed tre mendous prime rib and sausage. Less than a mile away, I swung through Black’s Barbecue and en joyed a beef rib nearly the size of my head and a bonus piece of the owner’s birthday cake. In Oklahoma City, I went to Clark Crew BBQ, a restaurant that seems tailor-made for franchising.
Ribs and brisket makes every day better By Jordan Golson North State Journal KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you’ve never driven across it, it’s difficult to appreciate just how large the United States is. The trick to any road trip, par ticularly a cross-country one, is to have the right vehicle. For this 4,000-mile journey, which stretched from San Diego in the most southwestern point of the lower 48 to New Hampshire in the far northeast, I picked the most iconic American vehicle possible: the Ford F-150. The F-Series has been the best-selling pickup in America for more than four decades, even if some of Ford’s competitors qui etly grumble about how this num ber is calculated since all Ford Ftrucks are included, while Chevy and GMC are tallied separately even though they’re made in the same factory, for example. Regardless, Ford sells many, many trucks and knows precise ly what its truck customers want and need. My F-150 was a terrif ic configuration — no features you don’t need and everything you do (or nearly so, at least). Truck buyers can configure their F-150s into a dizzying ar ray of configurations, and this was no different. Start with the XLT trim ($49,885), one step above the stripped-down XL work truck, and configure the 3.5L V6 twin-turbo EcoBoost engine ($2,595). That’ll give you 400 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque, which you’ll want for those endless climbs across the various mountain ranges of these UnitedThenStates.Fordoffers numerous op tion packages so you can mix and match to your heart’s content. This truck had Ford Co-Pilot 360 As sist 2.0 ($995), which is a compli cated way of saying it had adaptive cruise and an active lane-center ing feature that is mind-boggling ly useful on endlessly long, dead straight stretches of interstate. Add the 360-degree camera pack age ($765) because this isn’t a small truck, and it’s good to know what’s around you. A host of other features like the Max Trailer Tow Package ($1,995) and the OnBoard Scale w/Smart Hitch ($650) round out the ar rangement and prep the truck for everything you might throw at it. All in, it sported an MSRP of around $63,000.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 22 SP 218 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Edward C. Taylor (Deceased) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Edward C. Taylor, Heirs of Edward C. Taylor: Edward Carl Taylor, II, Isaiah Thomas Taylor) to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated August 13, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 4498, at Page 701 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 September 1, 2022 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Hubert in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax Id Number(s): 008142 Land situated in the Township of Swansboro in the county of Onslow in the State of NC Being all of Lot 43 as shown on that map entitled “Final Plat, Kingsbridge II, Section 3, Swansboro TWP., Onslow County, North Carolina”, prepared by Page Phillips and Associates, P.A., dated February 19, 1996 and recorded in Map Book 33, Page 124, Slide J-152, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 243 East Ivybridge Drive, Hubert, North Carolina. The property address and Tax Parcel Identification Number listed are provided solely for informational purposes. Commonly known as: 243 E Ivybridge Dr., Hubert, NC Trustee28539-5402may, 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), 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 AnPropertyorder 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.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop and Democratic congressional candidate Scott Huffman are featured in this combination photo. Stanly County Concert Band celebrates 10 years of performing Founded in 2012, the Stanly County Concert Band is looking forward to celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. Rehearsals for their anniversary season will take place on August 18 at 6:30 pm in the Pfeiffer University Band room. Previous participants are encouraged to return and anyone 18 or older can join the band. The band’s concerts are set to take place on November 3 at the Stanly County Agri-Civic Building and at Central United Methodist Church on December 8. Both concerts will take place at 7 pm and are free to the public. Financial donations, however, are accepted and greatly appreciated.
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ALBEMARLE — Stanly County sits in the geographic center of the new 8th Congres sional District, which covers a total of eight counties. To the north are Davidson and Row an, with half of Cabarrus to the west, Montgomery to the east, and Union, Anson, and part of Richmond to the south. During the February filing pe riod, only two candidates made their runs for the seat official: Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bish op, who currently represents the 9th Congressional District, and Democrat Scott Huffman, who has made unsuccessful runs for Congress in 2018 and 2020. Stanly County’s current con gressman, Republican Richard Hudson, opted to run in the re drawn 9th district, which runs from Randolph County down to FortBishop,Bragg.who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representa tives in a 2019 special election, sits on the Homeland Security and Judicial committees. He also served terms in both the N.C. House and Senate from 2015 until his election to Con gress.On his campaign website, Bishop cites law and order, low er taxes, national security, pro tecting the Second Amend ment, and voter ID as his top issues. The NRA and the Club for Growth have endorsed Bish op’s for Huffman,reelection.who lost to U.S. Rep. Ted Budd (NC-13) by a 68% to 31% margin in 2020, is a Navy veteran and has been ac tive in Mecklenburg County’s Democratic Party, serving on the Board of Directors. On his campaign website, he says he started being active in local pol itics following the 2016 election. A prolific Twitter user, Huff man regularly attacks Bish op for being “the most extreme MAGA GOP member” repre senting North Carolina in Con gress. His top issues are afford able healthcare, strong public schools, and voting rights. As of the second quarter re ports to the Federal Election Commission, Bishop holds a sig nificant advantage over Huff man. Bishop reported raising $1.5 million with $1.1 million on hand, with Huffman raising just $73,000 and has $13,000 onThehand.district is seen as strong ly Republican based on previous election results. In 2020, former President Donald Trump won 66% of the vote to 32% for Joe Biden. Stan ly County makes up 8.3% of the district. The largest county by population is Union, with 31%. DecisonDeskHQ, a national elections website, rates the par tisan lean of the district as R+19 and their current election model gives Bishop a greater than 99% chance of victory.
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The Stanly County School system is currently expecting a bus driver shortage for the opening weeks of the school year. According to a presentation given to the school board last week by SCS Director of Maintenance Todd Bowers, the district is expected to have eight buses without qualified drivers. Last year, the district only had five bus driver vacancies at the beginning of the school year. Currently, the county is planning to perform “double runs,” where bus drivers use extra time to deliver two groups of students to school in anticipation of potential difficulties for the first week of school. Stanly County Journal staff ALBEMARLE — On the morning of Aug. 11, two peo ple were taken into custody, and a Cabarrus County depu ty was hurt following a stolen car chase across three counties that ended in Albemarle in a ditch on Concord Rd. Joekeem Shamar Neal, 25, of Kannapolis, is in jail on a secure bond of $520,000 and facing an assault charge with a deadly weapon on a govern ment official, resisting a pub lic officer, possession of a sto len motor vehicle, trafficking in heroin, possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or deliv er a schedule I controlled sub stance, felony flee to elude ar rest, and failure to heed blue lights and siren. Neal’s accomplice and pas senger of the vehicle, Tyra via Akeise Angle, of Salisbury, has been charged with posses
sion with intent to sell and de liver schedule I controlled sub stance; trafficking in heroin; maintaining a vehicle for the purpose of selling a controlled substance; felony flee to elude arrest; and possession of drug paraphernalia. On Aug. 12, she was bailed out on a $300,000 bond, per the Sheriff’s Office. The police chase began in Charlotte with a reported sto len vehicle as Mecklenburg County officers were alerted to theIncrime.Harrisburg, a Cabarrus County deputy’s patrol car that joined the chase crashed into a tree on Rocky River Rd; the deputy was soon taken to a hos pital with minor injuries, but he is expected to be okay. Au thorities have reported that Neal was hitting speeds as high as 100 miles an hour through out Mount Pleasant. Once the police chase en tered Stanly County, the coun
ty sheriff’s office deployed stop sticks to stop the vehicle, which swerved to dodge the blockade, collided with a Stanly County Sheriff’s Office cruiser, and ul timately flipped upside down. There were no injuries in the collision.Following the arrest, officers found 26 grams of heroin in the overturned vehicle. In April, 2019, the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office charged Neal for possession with the in tent to manufacture, sell and deliver a Schedule II controlled substance (marijuana), posses sion of marijuana parapherna lia, and littering; he was placed under a $25,000 bond. In Feb ruary 2020, Neal was arrest ed by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office for stolen fire armEarliercharges.this past June, Neal was charged in Mecklenburg County for driving with a re voked license.
The Stanly County Sheriff’s Office has purchased four mobile metal detectors to increase security at the county’s four elementary schools. The total cost of the detectors was roughly $16,000 and was made possible from money given to the office through a federal grant. If all goes according to the Sheriff office’s plan, each of the four detectors will be installed prior to the start of the school year. According to Sheriff Jeff Crisco, the decision to boost security came shortly after the Uvalde shooting.
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During the February filing period, only two candidates made their runs for the seat official. The police chase began in Charlotte with a reported stolen vehicle as Mecklenburg County.
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The Associated Press BELFAST, Maine — A private shipyard is preparing for a pains taking stem-to-stern restoration of a floating piece of presidential his tory.The Sequoia is a 1925 motor yacht that served eight presidents before being sold by President Jim my Carter in 1977. French & Webb, a custom boat building company, was tapped for the restoration by the current own er. Strict guidelines must be fol lowed because the vessel is on the National Register of Historic Plac es.“It’s slowly happening, but the needle is moving,” Todd French told the Bangor Daily News. For now, the 104-foot vessel re mains under a white tarp. Behind the scenes, workers have created a three-dimensional model because the original design plans couldn’t be found, and assembled materi als including longleaf pine from the Southeast and white oak from Denmark. Once the physical work begins, likely in the spring, the restoration of the Sequoia should be a threeyear project, he said. Over the years, several differ ent vessels have served as a floating White House for presidents. The Sequoia was designed by a Norwegian-born naval architect and went through a couple of own ers before going up for sale follow ing the stock market crash of 1929.
President Herbert Hoover en couraged the Navy to buy the ves sel, and began using it as a presi dential yacht. This Sequoia holds plenty of presidential history: John Kennedy celebrated his last birthday aboard the vessel; Harry Truman held atomic arms talks with the leaders of Canada and Great Britain after World War II; and Richard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezh nev.The vessel, which is owned by FE Partners LLC, a private invest ment firm based Washington, D.C., has been in Belfast since 2019. The pandemic delayed the start of work.
Former presidential yacht to be restored at Maine shipyard this Sept. 6, 2013 file photo, the yacht Sequoia motors on the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. BRANDON AP PHOTO A cross and Bible sculpture stand outside the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., on May 24, 2022.
The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lead ers of the Southern Baptist Con vention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse.
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There was no immediate com ment from the Justice Depart ment about the investigation. Earlier this year, an SBC sex abuse task force released a blister ing 288-page report from outside consultant, Guidepost Solutions. The firm’s seven-month indepen dent investigation found disturb ing details about how denomi national leaders mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated vic tims.The report focused specifically on how the SBC’s Executive Com mittee responded to abuse cas es, revealing that it had secret ly maintained a list of clergy and other church workers accused of abuse. The committee later apol ogized and released the list, which had hundreds of accused workers onAit.Guidepost spokesperson de clined to comment on news of the DOJFollowingprobe. the release of the Guidepost report, the SBC voted during its annual meeting in June to created a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms. Earlier this week, SBC President Bart Barber, who also signed Friday’s statement, an nounced the names of the South ern Baptist pastors and church members who will serve on the taskSouthernforce. Baptist sex abuse sur vivor Christa Brown, who has long called for the SBC to do more to address sex abuse across its churches, celebrated the news of the DOJ “Hallelujah.investigation.It’sabout time,” Brown said in a Friday post on Twitter. “This is what’s needed.” Another survivor, Jules Wood son, went public with her abuse story in 2018 and has been push ing for reforms in the SBC ever since. On Friday, she reacted to the investigation news by tweet ing, “May justice roll down!!!” Oklahoma pastor Mike Keah bone, who serves on the Executive Committee and is the vice chair of the new abuse task force, said on Twitter that the investigation “is not something to fear ... If there is more work to do, we will do it.” KELLI JO (W /F/31), FIRST DEGREE ARSON, 08/14/2022, Stanly County Sheriff`S Office
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The SBC’s Executive Commit tee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoe naed at this point, according to the committee’s lawyers. “This is an ongoing investiga tion and we are not comment ing on our discussions with DOJ,” theyThesaid.statement from SBC lead ers — including Executive Com mittee members, seminary pres idents and heads of mission organizations — gave few details about the investigation, but in dicated it dealt with widespread sexual abuse problems that have rocked the largest Protestant de nomination in the U.S. “Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to ful ly and completely cooperate with the investigation,” the statement said. “While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are imple menting measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future.”
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You deserve answers in47%highersignificantlyRepublican,thisparty53%family.youaccountableandbeobligationhasthereforepeopletheexistsgovernmentOurtoserveAmericanandthetotransparenttoandyouroftwo-turnoutyearwasthantheRepublican2018. COLUMN |
U.S. REP. RICHARD HUDSON “CONCENTRATED POWER has always been the enemy of liberty.” This quote by former President Ronald Reagan reminds us of the dangers of abuse of power, as well as the threat one-party rule can be to the rights and liberties of the American people. Last week, unfortunately, we saw this danger become a reality. Last Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a “raid” on President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, allegedly on the grounds that they were looking for “presidential records or any possibly classified material.” However, the nature of this raid remains dubious at best and, in many ways, appears to be a startling and unprecedented example of the political weaponization of the FBI and the Biden administration’s Justice Department. Never in our country’s history has such action been taken against a former president, yet the American people are still in the dark about the details of and justification for this raid. The FBI nor the Department of Justice have offered a full explanation of what happened that day. And while some Washington Democrats have voiced their opposition to this raid, many continue to ignore this clear abuse of power. Our government exists to serve the American people and therefore has an obligation to be transparent and accountable to you and your family. The American people deserve an answer on what happened at Mar-a-Lago, and I call upon both the DOJ and FBI to fully explain their actions.While Washington Democrats have failed in their obligation to be transparent with you and your family, they have also failed to address the issues most important to you. Data shows inflation remained at a 40-year high in July, with prices for goods and services continuing to batter hardworking families nationwide. Gasoline is up 44%, groceries 13.1%, electricity 15.2% and transportation 9.2%. Despite this, last week the House Democrats passed their “Inflation Expansion Act,” a bill that would raise your taxes, throw more than $350 billion of your tax dollars at radical Green New Deal climate initiatives, and make the cost of items you need every day from the grocery store to the gas pump even moreThisexpensive.billwould also needlessly expand federal bureaucracy, including adding an additional 87,000 new IRS agents to come after you. This would nearly double the size of the IRS and would give the agency more personnel than all the troops stationed at Fort Bragg, America’s largest military base. You couldn’t even fit all the IRS agents in the Carolina Panthers’Insteadstadium!ofdoubling down on the reckless spending that helped start our economic crisis, Congress needs to be focusing on real solutions for you and your family. We should begin by stopping needless government spending, lowering taxes, and building an economic environment that encourages growth and shrinks costs. Furthermore, we must take steps to secure our border. Last week, the Biden administration announced the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy. This common-sense initiative required that immigrants attempting to enter our country wait in Mexico until their immigration court hearing. Since Biden took office, over 3.1 million migrants have attempted to enter our country illegally. Additionally, we have had 500,000 known “got-aways” at our southern border since October 2021. Ending “Remain in Mexico” will only make the ongoing Biden Border Crisis worse. Border security is vital to national security, and we must take real steps to secure our border. This includes keeping “Remain in Mexico” in place, as well as implementing other proven solutions, including maintaining Title 42 authority, giving Customs and Border Patrol the resources and support it needs, and finishing the wall. Whether it’s securing the border, growing our economy, or holding government agencies like the FBI accountable, I continue to fight for what matters to you most. You deserve answers and solutions, and I’m proud to be standing up for you. MICHAEL BARONE ARE REPUBLICANS LOSING what seemed for months to be their overwhelming advantage in elections to the House of Representatives this November? The answer is unclear. Optimistic Democrats have been thinking the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade will trigger an increase in Democratic turnout and a rethinking by Republican-leaning voters who don’t want to see abortion criminalized. Optimistic Republicans have started thinking the FBI and Justice Department’s search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Florida, will trigger a recoil by Republicanleaning voters who may have qualms about the former president, but also fear what many regard as prosecutorial persecution. Optimists are often wrong about political trends. They tend to identify 10 of the last two turning points in public opinion. But sometimes, they get things right. And there’s a nontrivial possibility that both parties’ optimists may be right this year. Consider the first claim. The Dobbs decision was announced on June 24. The first electoral test of the abortion issue came in the Kansas primary on Aug. 5. A referendum to overturn a state Supreme Court decision recognizing abortion as a right and leaving the issue to the legislature was rejected 59% to 41%. Far more Kansans voted on that issue (922,000) than in either major party’s primary for governor (738,000). It’s obvious that many Republicans voted for the pro-abortion rightsThreeposition.qualifiers should be noted. First, partisan turnout in the primary (62% of two-party turnout) was in line with party registration data (63% Republican).Second,the picture of Kansas as a uniformly conservative rural state is misleading. In the referendum, 27% of the votes were cast in Johnson County, which contains most of metro Kansas City’s affluent suburbs. Most of the noncollege white people in that urban area live on the Missouri side of the line. Because of Johnson County, Trump’s percentage in Kansas declined in 2020, unlike next-door Missouri and Oklahoma. Third, the Kansas referendum seemed to force voters to choose between a total ban on abortion — possible in the legislature, given the state’s history — and allowing abortion with some restrictions. Polls have consistently shown that banning all abortions, like opposing all restrictions, is unpopular. Beyond Kansas, there’s some evidence that previously dispirited Democrats are rallying. The RealClearPolitics generic ballot average, tracking which party respondents favor for Congress, showed a 44% to 41% Republican lead on June 23. Now, it’s 44% to 44%. Historically, that question has underrated Republican performance, but the trend could be meaningful.It’slessapparent when you look at total partisan turnout, tabulated by pollster John Couvillon. He shows that 53% of the two-party turnout this year was Republican, significantly higher than the 47% Republican in 2018. Republican turnout is up 20%, and Democratic turnout is down 5%. There’s less difference in post-June 24 primaries, with Republican turnout up 11% and Democratic turnout down less than 1%. That suggests a reduction but not the elimination of a Republican advantage. Surely, it’s too early to fully gauge the response to the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. But the turnout on Aug. 9 in Wisconsin and Minnesota, two states without party registration, where voters are free to vote in either party’s primaries, looked much like the pre-June 24 picture nationally. Total turnout in these two states was up 11% compared to 2018. But turnout for the Democratic contest was down 7%, whereas Republican primary turnout was up 38%. Two-party primary turnout had been 59% Democratic in 2018 but was 51% Republican in 2022. Another indicator was the special election to replace the late Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn in Minnesota’s 1st District. In 2020, this district voted 54% to 44% for Trump and 49% to 46% for Hagedorn. In the special, it voted 51% to 47% for Republican Brad Finstad against Democrat Jeff Ettinger, former Hormel CEO, who carried Hormel’s home county by 13 points. Ettinger did even better, 58% to 41%, in Olmsted County, home of the Mayo Clinic and upscale Rochester. That’s the hometown of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, Mayo’s lawyer for years and, as the only Supreme Court justice in history whose clients were mainly doctors and hospitals, the author of Roe v. Wade. So it’s looking like reactions to events are split. Democrats in upscale areas like Johnson County, Kansas, and Olmsted County, Minnesota, might be more motivated to vote because of Dobbs. Voters not sympathetic to Biden Democrats in less upscale areas, like rural counties in Minnesota that cast votes at historically high Republican percentages for Finstad, might be moving more Republican. Evidence for that includes the responses of two Republican governors who have kept their distance from Trump’s “stop the steal” claims. “A stunning move,” tweeted Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin. “Selective, politically motivated actions have no place in our democracy.”
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“Another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” tweeted Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Extravagant? Not when you’ve earned the distrust of half the country, as the FBI and Obama and Biden Justice Departments have in their treatment of Hillary Clinton, the Russia collusion hoax, and Hunter Biden. Nothing in politics is free; there is just some question about when you pay the price.
Will Dobbs help Democrats? Will the Mar-a-Lago raid help Republicans?
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The Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. — Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has proposed to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed Thursday.Theplan would require ap proval from courts and cred itors. The development of the Panthers’ state-of-the-art $800 million practice facility — which would have served as the team’s new headquarters — fell apart af ter highly-publicized disputes be tween Tepper and the City of Rock Hill and York County. GT Real Estate Holdings, a Delaware limited liability compa ny, announced it has filed a com prehensive plan of reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Under the terms of the plan, GTRE would resolve claims by paying $60.5 million in cash funded into a settlement trust for the benefit of contractors, subcon tractors and general unsecured creditors, $21.1 million to York County and $20 million or more to the City of Rock Hill. DT Sports Holding, LLC, a Tepper entity, previously funded $20 million in debtor-in-posses sionTepper’sfinancing.real estate company, GTRE, filled for Chapter 11 bank ruptcy on June 2. York County an nounced a few days later it was su ing Tepper for at least $21 million. Among Tepper’s companies named in the York County law suit are DT Sports Holding, LLC, Appaloosa Management LP and Tepper Sports Holding, Inc. York County officials previously said they filed the lawsuit to protect the county and its taxpayers and recover damages caused by the defendants.Thecomplaint said Tepper and his companies took $21 million from a special penny sales tax in tended to expand a road in York County and used the money for what the county’s lawyers called a “failed vanity project.”
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Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has promised to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed last week.
Tepper is one of the NFL’s rich est owners. He invested more than $175 million into the halfbuilt practice facility, which is lo cated about 25 miles south of the team’s current downtown stadi um and headquarters in Char lotte, North Carolina, before con struction shut down. “This plan reflects GTRE’s promise to expeditiously resolve all claims and make payments to its creditors, including to York County and the City of Rock Hill,” according to a statement re leased by GT Real Estate Hold ings. “GTRE now has a clear path to emerge from bankruptcy made possible by substantial commit ments from DT Sports Hold ing, which has made available to GTRE more than $82 million in cash in an effort to bring this pro cess to an orderly and equitable conclusion.“GTREbelieves that the plan is in the best interests of its cred itors and anticipates that a hear ing to consider approval of the plan will occur in October of this year.”The Associated Press has reached out to officials for the City of Rock Hill and York Coun ty, but neither have responded to the proposed plan.
By Hank Kurz Jr. The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Kevin Harvick may be stamping him self as the man to beat in NA SCAR.The 2014 series champion took the lead from Joey Logano with 66 laps to go and held off Christo pher Bell at Richmond Raceway on Sunday for his second consec utive NASCAR Cup Series victo ry.Harvick, who ended a 65-race drought last week at Michigan, won for the 60th time, the fourth time at Richmond and first time on the 0.75-mile oval since 2013.
Kevin Harvick celebrates after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond.
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MLB Rockies’ Bernard makes MLB debut after decade in minors Denver Wynton Bernard played in the major leagues a decade after he was drafted by the Padres, getting a single, stolen and run scored in his debut on Friday with the Rockies. He batted seventh and played center field against the Diamondbacks in Colorado’s 5-3 win. The 31-year-old Bernard was taken in the 35th round of the 2012 draft and spent three seasons in the Padres’ minor league system. He also played in the minors for Detroit, San Francisco and the Chicago Cubs, and internationally in Venezuela, Mexico and Australia. GOLF Japan’s Baba wins US Women’s Amateur in blowout University Place, Wash. Saki Baba routed Monet Chun of Canada 11 and 9 on Sunday to become the second Japanese winner in U.S. Women’s Amateur history. The 17-year-old Baba won the last six holes, ending the match with a birdie on the par-3 27th hole at Chambers Bay. Baba joined 1985 champion Michiko Hattori as the only Japanese winners. Baba was one of four amateurs to make the cut in the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles, tying for 49th. She shared medalist honors and reached the round of 32 in the U.S. Girls’ Junior at The Club at Olde Stone.
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BASKETBALLCOLLEGE Calipari apologized for calling UK a “basketball school” Lexington, Ky. John Calipari says he made a mistake comparing Kentucky’s anddepartmentathletictootherscallingtheschool a “basketball school.” Calipari wrote on social media Saturday that he heard Mark Stoops’s response — in which the Kentucky football coach said,”I thought we competed in the SEC?” — to Calipari’s push for upgraded practice basketball facilities and said he reached out to his fellow Wildcats coach on Thursday and will keep trying. Calipari says comparing Kentucky’s athletic department to others was his bad. NFL Len Dawson, MVP of Chiefs’ first Super Bowl win, in hospice Kansas City, Mo. Len Dawson, the 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, has entered hospice care in Kansas City. The MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 Super Bowl victory over Minnesota in January 1970, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012. In addition to his work at KMBC where he was the station’s first sports anchor, Dawson was a game analyst for NBC and the Chiefs’ radio network and hosted HBO’s “Inside the NFL” show.
He matched Kyle Busch for ninth in career victories in the premier series and credited an increased understanding of the Next Gen car for his progress. “We’re just going to keep do ing the things that we’re doing,” Harvick said. “I think we just have to keep an open mind about things and keep progressing and keep understanding the car, un derstanding what we could have done better today, understand ing what we could have done bet ter in qualifying yesterday and do the same thing over and over,” he said after climbing from his car. He even took some blame for allowing Bell to come so close at the“Iend.knew he was coming, but I forgot to shift down the front straightaway the last time,” he said. “I was not paying attention and he got closer than he should have. I made a mistake there a couple laps doing the same thing.” Harvick’s victory also kept alive the intriguing battle for the final playoff position with two races remaining in the reg ular season. The 15 winners this year have all likely claimed play off berths unless there are new winners when the series moves to Watkins Glen and then Daytona. Bell finished second, followed by Chris Buescher, Denny Ham lin and Chase Elliott. Joey Lo gano, who led for 222 of the 400 laps, faded to sixth, followed by Martin Truex Jr. Ryan Blaney was 10th. Blaney and Truex are the top two drivers in points hop ing to make the 16-driver playoffs without a Thanksvictory.tostage points, Blaney increased his lead from 19 points to 26 over Truex for the final play off spot, assuming there is not a 16th different winner. The race featured just five cau tions for 28 laps, and that includes the two that come at the end of each stage. The last one came when Bell spun on the 252nd lap, and Harvick pulled away after a pair of green-flag pit cycles. The final pit stops under green came with just more than 50 laps to “Igo.got held up pretty bad at the beginning of the run by a cou ple slower cars and that was ul timately the difference when you get beat by a couple car lengths,” Bell said. He locked up a playoff spot with a win at Loudon on July 17.Before Bell, Buescher was on Harvick’s bumper, but never got around him. “I think it’s a little easy with this format to feel like third place doesn’t matter, but it’s nice to be close and to keep progress ing and getting better,” he said. “Just burned the rear tires up. Ultimately that’s on me. Lap traf fic didn’t do us any favors, either, but ultimately just got to keep the rears under us a little bit better so we can have a little bit better shot there to get after him for the win.”The series moves to the road course at Watkins Glen in New York next weekend.
“(GT Real Estate Holdings) now has a clear path to emerge from bankruptcy.” Part of a statement made by the David Tepper-owned company
The former NC State quarterback will take the reins of Cleveland’s offense By Tom Withers The Associated Press
NBA great Bill Russell, who died July 31 at age 88, will have his No. 6 retired by all 30 teams, the first league.thehonorednumberbyentire
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Browns backup Brissett moves into Watson’s starting spot
MISENHEIMER — Pfeiffer University’s athletic department announced Tuesday that it has brought back Bob Marchinko as coach of the school’s cross-country and track and field teams, a position that he had held at Pfeiffer from 2002 to 2005. Earlier this month, coach Andrew How ard resigned from Pfeiffer’s head positions af ter six years with both teams to take a position leading the University of Virginia’s College at Wise’s inaugural cross-country and track and field teams in Division II. Marchinko is now coming back to Pfeiffer af ter serving five years as an assistant coach with the Catawba College running programs where he helped nine players earn All-South Atlantic Conference awards and seven All-Region run ners. His last season was the program’s most successful yet — the Catawba men’s team qual ified for the NCAA Division II Championship for the first time in program history. Between 2018 and 2022, 14 different Cataw ba indoor track athletes have been honored with all-conference awards. During Marchinko’s first coaching stint in Misenheimer, he was named the CVAC Coach of the Year in 2002 as the Falcons’ men’s cross-country team won the CVAC title victo ry as well as the NCAA Division II Champion shipAtseries.thehigh school level, Marchinko was been named the North Piedmont Women’s Cross-Country Coach of the Year in 2010 while at South Rowan High School and the 2014 South Piedmont Coach of the Year while at Carson High School. Over the past six years, Pfeiffer cross-coun try and track and field student-athletes have recorded 30 new school records, and 15 play ers were named to the USA South All-Academ ic team last season.
Players who currently wear No. 6 — including the Los Ange les Lakers’ LeBron James — may continue doing so. But the number cannot be issued again, the league said.All NBA players will wear a patch on the right shoulder of their jerseys this season, the league said, and every NBA court will display a clover-shaped logo with the No. 6 on the sideline near the scorer’s table.The Boston Celtics have “sep arate and unique recognition for him on their uniforms” planned, the NBA Russellsaid.died on July 31 at the age of 88. He was the most prolific winner in NBA history, an 11-time champion during a 13-year career — winning the last two of those ti tles as a player-coach — and the first black coach in any of the ma jor U.S. pro sports to win a cham pionship.Hemarched with Martin Lu ther King Jr., stood with Muham mad Ali and received the Presi dential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. And having his number retired leaguewide puts him in a very ex clusiveMajorclub.League Baseball perma nently retired No. 42 — in honor of Jackie Robinson, who broke the big league’s color barrier — with the understanding that those who were wearing that number could continue to do so. Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees was the last in the majors to wear No. 42, doing so through his final season in 2013.TheNHL, upon Wayne Gretz ky’s retirement in 1999, said his No. 99 would be retired league wide in honor of that sport’s alltime scoring leader. And now, Russell gets the same treatment. It also seems fitting that he and Robinson — both bar rier-breakers — are linked again. Russell called Robinson a hero, once saying that “he showed me the way to be a man in profession al sports.”Robinson, clearly, held Rus sell in high esteem as well. Rachel Robinson, his widow, asked Rus sell to be a pallbearer at her hus band’s funeral in 1972. “This is a momentous hon or reserved for one of the greatest champions to ever play the game,” NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio said. “Bill’s actions on and off the court throughout the course of his life helped to shape generations of players for the bet ter and for that, we are forever grateful. We are proud to continue the celebration of his life and lega cy alongside the league.”
AP PHOTO Browns quarterback Jacoby Brissett will be working with Cleveland’s first team the remainder of the preseason while the team awaits a resolution on the suspension of starter Deshaun Watson.
Russell’s No. 6 being retired across NBA, a 1st for league “Permanently retiring his No. 6 across every NBA team ensures that Bill’s transcendent career will always be recognized.”
The legendary player, coach and civil rights activistdied July 31 By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press BILL RUSSELL’S No. 6 jersey is being retired across the NBA, a first for the league. The NBA and the National Bas ketball Players Association an nounced Thursday that the num ber worn by the 11-time champion, civil rights activist and person good enough to be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach was be ing permanently retired by all 30 teams.“Bill Russell’s unparalleled suc cess on the court and pioneering civil rights activism deserve to be honored in a unique and historic way,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “Permanently retiring his No. 6 across every NBA team ensures that Bill’s transcendent ca reer will always be recognized.”
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Adam Silver, NBA commissioner Pfeiffer rehires Bob Marchinko as cross-country and track coach
CLEVELAND — Jacoby Bris sett has jumped ahead of Deshaun Watson on Cleveland’s depth chart. Maybe for a while.
Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said Brissett will take the major ity of snaps with Cleveland’s firstteam offense starting Sunday, a move necessitated by Watson’s pending suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy for sexual misconduct allegations. Watson, who made his debut with the Browns by starting Fri day’s exhibition win over Jackson ville, has been the No. 1 quarter back throughout training camp. But he’s going to miss at least the first six regular-season games — and potentially more — so the Browns need to get Brissett ready for the Sept. 11 opener at Carolina. “That has been the plan real ly from the beginning is just to at some point let Jacoby get the majority of them, still work De shaun, still work Josh Dobbs and still work Josh Rosen,” Stefanski said, referring to Cleveland’s four QBs during a Zoom call with re porters.Watson’s situation remains in flux.His six-game suspension hand ed down by independent arbiter Sue L. Robinson was appealed by the NFL and is being decided by Peter C. Harvey, a former New Jersey Attorney General appoint ed by Commissioner Roger Good ell.Harvey’s ruling could come at any time and there’s still the possi bility Watson and the league could agree to a settlement. On Thursday, a person familiar with Watson’s defense told the AP the three-time Pro Bowler would accept an eight-game suspension and $5 million fine. The person spoke on condition of anonymi ty because of the sensitivity of the case.Before Friday’s game, Wat son’s first in nearly 600 days, he apologized for the first time since two dozen women filed lawsuits against him alleging sexual ha rassment and assault during mas sage therapy sessions while he played for Houston. “I’m truly sorry to all of the women that I have impacted,” Watson said. In the meantime, the Browns need to get ready for the season. Brissett — the former NC State standout — was signed in March by the Browns, who viewed him as a perfect plug-in while Watson is sidelined. The 29-year-old Bris sett has made 37 career starts and been thrown into unique situa tions, including in 2019 when he became Indianapolis’ starter fol lowing Andrew Luck’s stunning retirement.TheBrowns didn’t play Brissett against the Jaguars to avoid the risk of an injury and to get Watson back into the flow of a game. Now, it’s time for Brissett to get more time with Cleveland’s starters. Stefanski has been pleased with the team’s plan to this point. “Jacoby has gotten a lot of reps to date. I go back to the nine-week offseason program and the weeks we have been together, he has got ten a ton of reps with the ones and with the twos,” he said. “Even the way we structure our routes ver sus air and individual period, he has gotten a lot of reps with the quote-unquote ones and the twos. “He will keep on that same pro cess and making sure he is run ning the show when he is in there. He does a nice job in the quar terback meeting room with those guys, so I just think this is also the natural progression for him mov ing forward.”
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The Associated Press PROMINENT demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial meth od for protecting survey and cen sus participants’ confidentiality, saying it is jeopardizing the usabil ity of numbers that are the founda tion of the nation’s data infrastruc ture.The Census Bureau embraced using differential privacy algo rithms for the first time with the release last year of the first round of 2020 census data. Those num bers were used for determining how many congressional seats each state gets, as well as redraw ing political districts in a once-adecade process known as redis tricting.Thedemographers and other re searchers ask in a letter to Census Bureau Director Robert Santos that the agency drop future plans to use the algorithms on two oth er important data releases — an nual population estimates and the American Community Survey fig ures. The annual population esti mates are used in the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding each year. The American Com munity Survey provides the most comprehensive data on how peo ple in the U.S. live by asking ques tions about commuting times, in ternet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, mili tary service and employment. The privacy protection methods “are inappropriate for the critical ly important data sets, which are fundamental to American democ racy and to equity in redistricting, fund allocation and planning for government services of all kind,” the letter said. The Census Bureau has said that the differential privacy algo rithms are needed since, without them, the growth of easily avail able third-party data combined with modern computing could al low hackers to piece together the identities of participants in its censuses and surveys in violation of the law. Previous methods of protection are no longer effective, according to the statistical agency. A panel of three federal judges last year refused to stop the Cen sus Bureau from using the algo rithms after their use was chal lenged in a lawsuit by the state of Alabama.Census consultant Terri Ann Lowenthal said the letter reflects “the significant unease about the continued usefulness of Census Bureau data in light of new efforts to protect confidentiality in the modern world.” “The concerns get to the heart of the bureau’s mission, so I’m sure agency leadership will take them seriously and, hopefully, find ac ceptable solutions based on mean ingful stakeholder engagement,” said Lowenthal, a former congres sional staffer who specializes in census issues. The letter was spearheaded by steering committee members from the Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates, which pro motes cooperation and communi cation between the Census Bureau and state agencies responsible for demographic research. Its mem bers started gathering signatures for the letter last week from oth er researchers and will present the letter to Santos sometime in the next several Differentialweeks.privacy algorithms add intentional errors to data to obscure the identity of any giv en participant. It is most notice able at the smallest geographies, such as census blocks. For the next census in 2030, the demog raphers recommended using oth er methods to protect confiden tiality such as combining blocks with few people.
Some of the detailed data that were made public in previous censuses won’t be released at the smallest geographic levels, and ef forts to apply the algorithm have delayed the release of the next round of 2020 census data until next year, almost two years after it should have been released, the let ter“Thesesaid. key data for local gov ernment planning will be outof-date when they are finally re leased,” it said. City University of New York so ciology professor emeritus An drew Beveridge warned over the weekend at the Joint Statistical Meetings conference in Washing ton that private data providers are ready “to pounce” and fill the gap if researchers feel the Census Bu reau data are unusable. That could lead to the privatization of the U.S. statistical infrastructure, Beve ridge said during a presentation at the largest gathering of statis ticians and data users in North America.Thedemographers claim in their letter that the statistical agency’s credibility is on the line, saying “the experience of the last few years has undermined user trust in the Census Bureau.” At a meeting sponsored by the National Academies in June, San tos was asked about the feasibility of reverting back to previous con fidentiality methods. “I understand where you are coming from. I feel your pain,” Santos said. “We have made a de termination that if we want to pro tect data in today’s society... that is not possible.”
The Associated Press GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Be ginning next March, visitors to Great Smoky Mountains Nation al Park will need to purchase a parking pass to use the facilities. Park Superintendent Cassius Cash said in an interview the fee is needed to keep up with main tenance and staffing demands at the country’s most visited nation al park. The Smokies have seen at 57% increase in visitors over the past decade with a record 14.1 million visits in 2021. Howev er, appropriations aren’t based on visitations and have remained relatively flat, Cash said. Due to a combination of deed restrictions and federal law, the park is not allowed to charge an entrance fee, so Cash said they had to look at other ways to in crease revenue. In addition to the parking passes, the park is increasing camping fees. All the money raised will go directly into park staffing, deferred mainte nance and operations, Cash said. That includes things as basic as keeping the restrooms clean, picking up trash and maintain ing the Parkingroads.fees will be $5 per day or $15 for seven days. There will also be a $40 annual pass. The park is encouraging visitors to buy their passes in advance. They will be available for sale online, and the park is working to offer sales at hotels and other busi nesses in the surrounding com munities as well. Drivers won’t need a pass to drive through the park or to make brief stops in the park, Cash said. “If you want to come by the vis itor center and use the bathroom, you don’t need a pass,” he said. “We are trying to capture the costs of services used, not nick el-and-dime every vehicle. If you want to stop at an overlook and take a selfie with the beautiful scenery, you can still do that.” Backcountry camping fees will double to $8 per night under the new structure, with a max imum of $40 per camper. The park said such fees have not in creased in 10 years while site use has risen to more than 100,000 camper-nights per year. For oth er campsites, the rates will in crease to $36 per night for sites with electrical hookups and $30 per night for those without. Rates for group camps, horse camps and picnic pavilions will also in crease. Complete information on the new fee structure is available on the park’s Separately,website.thepark is explor ing ways to ease congestion at its most popular attractions like Laurel Falls, which had 375,000 visitors last year. In a pilot proj ect, the park recently offered a shuttle service from the nearby resort town of Gatlinburg to the falls — a service that was very popular, Cash said. While both visitation and the cost of doing business have in creased over the past decade, “one thing that has stayed the same is people’s expectations,” CashFormersaid. U.S. Sen. Lamar Alex ander, a longtime parks support er who grew up near the Smok ies and still lives nearby, issued a statement on Monday praising Cash for “solving a big problem with an obvious solution. “Funding from the new park ing fee and from the Great Amer ican Outdoors Act enacted in 2020 will provide the most new financial support for the Great Smokies since the park was cre ated in 1934,” the Tennessee Re publican said.
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Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method
AP PHOTO The sun sets over the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in this undated photo taken from Cliff Top near LeConte Lodge. AP PHOTO This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter.
Smokies to require parking passes beginning next March
Elma Parker Campbell, age 104, passed away peacefully August 7, 2022. She was born April 12, 1918 in Norwood, N.C to Columbus Algie and Mary Annie Parker. Elma was one of ten children.Elmaattended Norwood Public Schools and upon completion moved to Hampton, Va. While in Hampton she drove a public bus carrying servicemen to Langley Air Force base and Newport News Naval Shipyard. In 1957 she moved to Florida where she lived for 40 years. She was a dedicated employee and worked in a bank until she was 75 years old. In 1997 she moved to Texas to be near her family. In 2014 she resided in Costa Rica until moving back to Texas in 2017. Elma occupied her time in many ways. She volunteered in numerous community initiatives and was very active in church activities. She enjoyed gardening, flowers and wildlife of all sorts. Elma is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Peggy and Larry Eastabrook, her grandchildren Lisa Bartine, Stacy Speir, Jason Eastabrook and their spouses, nieces, step grandchildren and step great grandchildren.
June 5, 1971 ~ August 11, 2022 Ray Eugene Wilson, 51, of Stanfield, NC, passed away Thursday, August 11, 2022 at Atrium Health University in Charlotte.Raywas born June 5, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina to the late Ray Wilson and the late Brenda Wilson. Ray was employed for 29 years with the City of Charlotte and 23 years with Carolina Rent-ACar. Some of his favorite things included mustangs, cookouts and drag racing. He was happy and content with just spending time with his family and friends. He is survived by his wife, Mary Wilson; daughters, Makayla Rae Wilson and Angel (Rico) Stephenson; sister, Treasa Hinson; niece, Ashley Hinson; grandson, Nathan Mcdonald.
Jill Loftin December 2, 1956 ~ August 8, 2022
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Leslie Dean Myers, 74, of Albemarle passed away on Friday, August 12th, 2022 in Saturn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Charlotte. Born October 20, 1947 in Stanly County, NC, he was the son of the late Max Myers and Evelyn Catherine Howell Myers. He was retired from Philip Morris and was of the Baptist Faith.He was preceded in death by his wife Sharon Myers. Survivors include three children Scotty Myers (Karen) of VA, Sharon Efird (Andy) of Albemarle and Susanne Lyle (Mark) of Norwood, three step children David Meyer, Stephen Meyer, and Shirley Soto Meyer, all of Tennessee, one brother Tim Myers (Wanda) of High Rock, NC, seven grandchildren: Joshua Myers, Brandon Myers, Ross Efird, Holli Efird, Ashley Lyle, Hannah Lyle, and Brennan Lyle , and two great-grandchildren: Dakota Efird and Tyler Furr. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
Our beloved, Lucille Collins Robinson, was called home from labor to eternal rest, Saturday, August 6, 2022, at her residence surrounded by loving family members. We give honor and glory to Our Almighty Father for allowing us to spend so many wonderful years with her. Lucille was born June 10, 1927, in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of the late William and Lula Mae Chambers Collins. Her most favorite enjoyment was spending time with her family and spoiling her grandchildren.Herhusband, Stancil Robinson; five sisters; five brothers; and great grandchild, Ja’ Zyion Harris, preceded her in death.Mother Lucille leaves a trail of fond and loving memories with her daughters: Minnie McLaughlin, Nellie Robinson, Shelley Robinson, Geneva (James) Coleman, Emma Robinson, Angela (William) Green, Joyce (Christopher) Thomas, and Kimberley Little; sons: Stancil (Ella) Robinson Jr., William (Karen) Robinson, Larry (Phyllis) Robinson, and Darryl K. (Barbara) Robinson; thirtyseven grandchildren; seventy-two great grandchildren; sixteen great great-grandchildren; special sister-in-law, Becky Collins; special best friend, Shirley McRae; a host other relatives and friends.
Larry Clinton Carter, 82, of New London, NC, passed away Thursday, August 11, 2022 at his home.Mr. Carter was born August 3, 1940 in Dallas, TX to the late Lu ther Carter and Mary Ann Huney cutt Carter. He retired from Col lins and Aikman with 42 years of service. Larry was a member of Paul’s Crossing Baptist Church and he loved to fish. He was a great husband, father and grandfather. Larry is survived by his wife Janelle Smith Carter of the home. He is also survived by two sons, Doug Carter (Darlene) of New London, NC and Steven Carter (Teresa) of Albemarle, NC; five grandchildren, Amber Burleson (Bryan), Trisha Kimrey (Mark), Justin Carter (Breanna), Timothy Carter (Kayce) and Kandace Car ter and eight great-grandchildren, Carley Burleson, Lexie Burleson, Diesel Burleson, Landon Kimrey, Bentley Kimrey, Wesley Carter, Emmerlyn Carter and Miley Car ter.Memorials may be made to, Pauls Crossing Baptist, 40461 Pauls Crossing Road, Richfield, NC 28137.
August 3, 1940 - August 11, 2022
Mrs. Alene Kennedy Freeman, 85, of Albemarle passed away on Friday, August 12, 2022 in her home.Born April 27, 1937 in Moore County, NC, she was the daughter of the late Kin Kennedy and Annie Jane Williams Kennedy. She was a homemaker and a member of Faith Free Will Baptist Church.Sheis survived by her husband Roy Harvey Freeman of 63 years, six children Susie Kidd of Richfield, Teresa Calloway (Joey) of New London, Allen Freeman (Cindy) of Albemarle, Sally Eudy (Wayne) of Albemarle, Brenda Galloway (Lynn) of Richfield, and Renda Eudy (Charles) of New London, 17 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, and 5 greatgreat-grandchildren. She was preceded by children Jimmy Ray Kennedy, Roy Lee Freeman, and Harvey Edward Freeman and one grandchild Donnie Kennedy. Memorials may be made to Faith Freewill Baptist Church, 34915 Locust Lane, New London, NC 28127.
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Jill Eva Loftin gained her angel wings on August 8, 2022. Jill was born on December 2, 1956 to Jesse and Mary Catherine Loftin of Norwood, North Carolina. Jill grew up in Norwood and lived various places throughout her life. She eventually made her way back to her home place a few years ago. Jill was a graduate of Salem College where she obtained her Bachelor’s in English. During her life she worked at Belk, Duke Power, and as a teacher but her favorite job was being a mother to her three children. She loved to travel with her family and friends. She always kept a smile on the face of everyone she met. Preceding her in death are her sister Diane Huggins; her parents, Jesse and Mary Catherine Loftin; and her daughter, Leslie Megan “Meg” Tilley.Left to cherish her memory are her son Jason Singleton (Misty); daughters, Margaret and Diana Tilley; grandchildren, Bailey and Alec Singleton; and numerous family and friends she has made over the years. Hollis Davis Jr. August 22, 1960 ~ August 8, 2022
Hollis Grant Davis Jr., 61, of Norwood, passed away on Monday, August 8, 2022 at Atrium Health Carolinas Health CareMr.System.Daviswas born on August 22, 1960 in Onslow County, NC to the late Hollis Grant Sr. and Sonia Alayon Davis. He graduated from NC State University in 1982 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After college, he joined the US Navy where he completed the Nuclear Engineering program and finished as Lieutenant. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his nephew, Morgan Gaddy. He is survived by his sisters, Dr. Elizabeth Snow and Lourdes Yarbrough (Ronnie), both of Norwood; nephews Matthew L. Davis, Thomas Z. Yarbrough, and Caleb G. Yarbrough.Inlieuof flowers memorials may be made to: Stanly Community Christian Ministries, P. O. Box 58, Norwood, NC 28128 Attn: CTN Elma Campbell April 12, 1918 ~ August 7, 2022
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Brenda Bradshaw Randall, 74, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, August 8, 2022 at her home.Brenda was born September 29, 1947 in Caldwell County, NC to the late Masten Curtis and Gracie Simmons Bradshaw. She was loving raised by the late Ann Bradshaw Barnette. She had worked at Winn Dixie and was a member of Silver Springs Baptist Church. Brenda had a servant’s heart. She enjoyed doing for others and especially loved working in the church helping prepare meals and working with the children during Vacation Bible School. She loved being a ball team mom and loved her grandbabies.Sheissurvived by her husband, Carroll Ray Randall, Sr. who she just celebrated 50 years of marriage with. Also surviving, son, Ray Randall Jr.(Robin) of Norwood; daughter, Heather Dennis(Tracey) of Lexington; brothers, Jimmy Barnette and Brad Barnette; grandchildren, Kayla and Jordan Randall, Emma Welch and Sophia Dennis.
Joyce Yow Kimrey, 64, of Albemarle, peacefully went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at her home surrounded by family and friends. Mrs. Kimrey was born on January 7, 1958 to the late James Clayton and Helen Dennis Yow. She was a member at Loves Grove United Methodist Church and attended Porter United Methodist Church. She had an adventurous spirit and loved to travel anywhere and everywhere. She also was an avid shopper and loved to find a bargain. Joyce loved her family and friends wholeheartedly, and spent much of her life taking care of others as a registered nurse. She attended West Stanly High School, shortly thereafter meeting the love of her life where she was able to spend 42 years of marriage together. She is survived by her husband, Tommy Joe Kimrey of the home; daughters Jennifer Hamilton (Bradley) of Albemarle and Tammy Jo Kimrey of the home; three grandchildren: Natalee, Chase, and Abbey; brother: James Yow (Susan); sister: Janie Yow; brother-in-law: Robert Kimrey (Carolyn); and multiple loving nieces and nephews.
AP PHOTO N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein speaks in favor of protecting abortion access during a news conference at the North Carolina Department of Justice, in Raleigh.
The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Banks along parts of the Colorado Riv er where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the West ern U.S. hotter and drier. More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the region from diverting more water than flows through it, de pleting key reservoirs to levels that now jeopardize delivery and hydropower production. Cities and farms in seven U.S. states are bracing for cuts this week as officials stare down a deadline to propose unprecedent ed reductions to their use of the water, setting up what’s expected to be the most consequential week for Colorado River policy in years. The U.S. Bureau of Reclama tion in June told the states — Ar izona, California, Colorado, Ne vada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — to figure out how to use at least 15% less water next year, or have restrictions imposed on them. On top of that, the bu reau is expected to publish hy drology projections that will trig ger additional cuts already agreed to.“The challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history,” Camille Tou ton, the bureau’s commissioner, said in a U.S. Senate hearing that month.Tensions over the extent of the cuts and how to spread them eq uitably have flared, with states pointing fingers and stubbornly clinging to their water rights de spite the looming Representativescrisis.from the sev en states convened in Denver last week for eleventh-hour negotia tions behind closed doors. Offi cials party to discussions said the most likely targets for cuts are farmers in Arizona and Califor nia. Agricultural districts in those states are asking to be paid gener ously to shoulder that burden. The Colorado River cascades down from the Rocky Mountains into the arid deserts of the South west. It’s the primary water sup ply for 40 million people. About 70% of its water goes toward ir rigation, sustaining a $15 billiona-year agricultural industry that supplies 90% of the United States’ winter vegetables.
The river is divided among Mexico and the seven U.S. states under a series of agreements that date back a century, to a time when more water flowed through the river. But climate change has transformed the river’s hydrolo gy, providing less snowmelt and causing hotter temperatures and more evaporation. As it’s yielded less water, the states have agreed to cuts tied to the levels of reser voirs that store river water. Last year, federal officials for the first time declared a water shortage, triggering cuts to Neva da, Arizona and Mexico’s share of the river to help prevent the two largest reservoirs — Lake Powell and Lake Mead — from dropping low enough to threaten hydro power production and stop water from flowing through their dams.
Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use
REED SAXON | AP PHOTO Farmer John Hawk looks over his land as his seed onion fields are watered in Holtville, Calif.
RALEIGH — A federal judge on Monday again refused to block a North Carolina district attorney from pursuing charges using a specific state law about a 2020 television commercial run by state Attorney General Josh Stein’sCampaigncampaign.lawyers for Stein, a Democrat, have argued that a law targeting allegedly false ads vio lates free speech rights and is in herently unconstitutional. But U.S. District Judge Cath erine Eagles on Monday declined to temporarily prevent that law from being enforced while the campaign committee and others related to Stein’s campaign file an appeal at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of EaglesAppeals.lastweek
already re jected a request by the campaign and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit to set aside the law while they seek to have the criminal statute struck down. In a reversal from a July deci sion, the judge ruled Aug. 9 that Stein’s campaign committee was unlikely to be successful on legal claims that the law addressing false statements against political candidates is unconstitutional on its Theface.lawsuit was filed days be fore Wake County District At torney Lorrin Freeman’s office had planned to take the results of an investigation over the ad to a grand jury, according to le galEaglesbriefs.said Monday that while lawyers for Stein’s campaign have made a “good argument” in the case, there are other factors that weigh against an injunction. There’s no guarantee that the 4th Circuit will resolve the mat ter before a two-year window al lowed for Freeman to pursue charges expires in October, Ea gles wrote. And it’s uncertain whether a grand jury will charge anyone with a crime. “If and when it does, the charged person can raise these constitutional defenses in state court,” she wrote. Eagles’ rulings put additional legal pressure upon Stein, a po tential 2024 governor’s contend er, to prevent a situation where people — whether it be Stein or anyone else — face misdemean or criminal charges. The lawsuit has Stein fighting enforcement of a law, when one of his chief du ties as attorney general is to de fend state laws in court. The law, which dates to at least 1931, makes it illegal to knowing ly circulate false “derogatory” re ports about candidates to harm them at the ballot box. The district attorney’s investi gation stems from a September 2020 State Board of Elections complaint filed against Stein’s committee by his then-challeng er, Republican Jim O’Neill. The ad talks about untest ed rape kits held by local law en forcement agencies, and a wom an appearing in the commercial asserts that O’Neill “left 1,500 rape kits sitting on a shelf” in Forsyth County, where he’s been district attorney since 2009. O’Neill’s campaign argued that the ad was false and subject to the law since police agencies, and not prosecutors, are respon sible for testing the kits. Stein narrowly defeated O’Neill in the November 2020 election. Freeman’s office has pursued prosecution even though the State Board of Elections in May 2021 recommended that the in vestigation related to the com plaint from O’Neill’s commit tee be closed. The report’s author wrote that “ambiguity” in the ad’s language made it “inconclusive” to determine whether a violation of the law occurred. Stein’s attorneys filed the in vestigation report with Eagles on Friday after WBTV obtained a copy, saying it was “new infor mation, deliberately withheld” by Freeman and the elections board. Freeman, a Democrat who has recused herself from the case be cause of a close working rela tionship with Stein and O’Neill, defended the decision by a top deputy handling the probe to pursue the investigation despite the board’s suggestion. That deputy, David Saacks, de termined additional investiga tion was needed after the board completed its work, Freeman told the station. The State Bureau of Investigation was brought in to assist.The state Democratic Par ty called on Freeman last week to promptly investigate state ments that O’Neill made public ly during the 2020 campaign and it says were false. Similar allega tions were made by Stein’s former campaign manager to the state board.Freeman told The Associat ed Press last week that her office wouldn’t consider the Democrat ic Party’s demand because they hadn’t followed normal proce dures and filed its own complaint with the board.
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Judge again refuses to block use of law in Stein probe
The proposals for supplemen tal cuts due this week have in flamed disagreement between up per basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — and lower basin states — Arizo na, California and Nevada — over how to spread the pain. The lower basin states use most of the water and have thus far shouldered most of the cuts. The upper basin states have historically not used their full allocations but want to main tain their water rights to plan for population growth. “It’s going to come to a head particularly if the upper basin states continue their negotiating position, saying, ‘We’re not mak ing any cuts,’” said Bruce Babbitt, who served as Interior secretary fromLower2003-2011.basinstates have yet to go public with plans to contrib ute, but officials said last week that they had a tentative propos al to reduce consumption that fell slightly short of the federal gov ernment’s request to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet. An acre-foot of water is enough to serve 2-3 households annually. Southern California cities like ly will be putting up money that could fund fallowing farmland in places like Imperial County and water managers are considering leaving water they’ve stored in Lake Mead as part of their contri bution.Arizona will likely be hit hard with reductions. The state has in the past few years shouldered much of the cuts and with its growing population and robust agricultural industry, has less wiggle room than its neighbors to take on more, said Arizona De partment of Water Resources Di rector Tom IrrigatorsBuschatzke.aroundYuma, Arizo na, have proposed taking 925,000 acre-feet less of Colorado Riv er water in 2023 and leaving it in Lake Mead if they’re paid $1.4 bil lion, or $1,500 per acre-foot. The cost is far above the going rate, but irrigators defended their pro posal as fair considering the cost to grow crops and get them to market.
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ASHEBORO – There will still be weekend early voting in Ran dolph County for the 2022 gen eral election, but there will be a slightly different twist. The Randolph County Board of Elections voted to nix a Sun day early voting date for this fall. Instead, there will be three Saturdays when early voting is conducted.Melissa Johnson, who’s di rector of the county’s Board of Elections, said there was inter est from some citizens to restore a Sunday date at last week’s Au gust meeting. However, that decision had been made near ly a month earlier and needed to remain in place based on the board’s policies and the timeta ble in advance of the election. “They couldn’t revisit it,” Johnson said. In the spring, the first Sun day of the early voting cycle was used as a voting day. The coun ty-wide turnout that day (May 1) was 285, marking the lowest number of any of the 14 days of early“We’vevoting.had Sunday voting the last two elections, but they de cided not to go with Sunday vot ing,” Johnson said. “The only thing extra is we’re going to have all three Saturdays during the period. They struck a com promise — no Sunday and all threeEarlySaturdays.”votingdates run from Oct. 20-Nov. 5. The times are 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the first two Saturdays and then 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on the final day. That’s a to tal of 155 hours at each location. The sites are the Board of Elections office on North Fay etteville Street in Asheboro, Braxton Craven School in Trini ty, Randleman Civic Center, and Franklinville United Methodist Church.There were 14 days of early voting for the spring’s primary, with a turnout of 10,205. The four locations for ear ly voting remain the same as the spring’s primary based on a unanimous vote of the Board of Elections. That involved moving an Archdale location to Braxton Craven“We’reSchool.sticking with that,” JohnsonBraxtonsaid.Craven School was the second-most visited ear ly voting site in the county, at tracting 2,108 voters for the pri mary.The only municipal races in Randolph County on this year’s docket involve the City of Arch dale, which holds its elections in even-numbered years. The filing period for those Archdale races has ended.
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Earlier this week, two juveniles were caught occupying a stolen vehicle involved in a police chase. According to the police report from the Asheboro Police Department, just after 2 am on August 9, an officer attempted to pull over the vehicle on S Fayetteville St. near Lanier Ave. After a brief chase through the back streets of Asheboro, officers found the vehicle stopped with two juveniles in the car and discovered that it had been reported as stolen. Police released the underage individuals back to their parents but plan to seek juvenile petitions against them at a later date.
Randolph Record staff HIGH POINT – The com munities of Asheboro, Frankl inville, and Ramseur should have about 100% fiber cover age for high-speed internet ser vice through an expansion set in place by NorthStateNorthState.announced last week that it would fully fund the project and engineering work is imminent, with construction slated to begin later this year. The expansion project for the multi-state high-speed fiber in ternet service provider also in cludes parts of Forsyth County, with the company announcing that 683 miles of fiber-optic technology will blanket the re gion. The company lists the price tag at about $51 million. NorthState says the under served areas are targeted, in cluding those areas of Randolph County in addition to Bethania, Lewisville, and Winston-Salem in Forsyth County. This proj ect should include approximate ly 15,000 homes in Randolph County.“The vision of the Randolph County Digital Alliance is that ‘every household, farm, and business will have the opportu nity to ‘earn, learn, and be well’ by accessing needed digital re sources,” said Kenneth Sher in, N.C. Cooperative Extension County Director for Randolph County. “The investment by NorthState will allow Randolph County residents to realize this vision. … Broadband access and digital skills are essential in our presentApproximatelyeconomy.”28% of North State’s expansion in Randolph County includes areas where there is only DSL (no cable) in ternet, meaning there is a cru cial lack of high-speed internet in any Basedform.on information from NorthState, most consumers in Randolph County are served by cable or DSL infrastructure. The fiber coverage should boost speed capacity, making uploads 154 times faster and downloads 12 times faster than traditional cable.“The demand for bandwidth is only increasing as consum ers connect more and more de vices — and use more and more two-way applications like Zoom and gaming — they demand not just high download speeds but equally fast upload speeds,” said Jay Winn, NorthState’s Chief Customer Officer. “Fiber is the only technology that can meet these demands and unlock the potential of what’s next,” Residents in the expansion areas will receive communica tion by mail when construction begins.Theexpansion should be com pleted in less than two years, the companyNorthStateannounced.isbased in High Point, but it has payment cen ters in Randleman and Thomas ville as well.
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Armed man injured after encounter with Asheboro deputies An armed man was rushed to the hospital earlier last week after encountering deputies from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office. According to a report from the office, deputies were responding to a welfare check on Cable Creek Rd in Asheboro. When the officers arrived on the scene, a male subject exited the residence with a firearm before retreating into the residence and attempting to escape out the back. After setting up a perimeter within a mile radius of the home, the suspect in question returned to the house while still armed. Shots were fired, and the subject was wounded. No further information, including the name of the suspect, has been released at this time. expansion coming to county
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Asheboro house fire resolved with no casualties Last Wednesday, the Asheboro Fire Department was dispatched to a home on S Main St near Marmaduke Cir after receiving reports of flames shooting through the roof of the structure. Westside Fire and Rescue assisted the Asheboro department after a second alarm was called, leaving the Randleman Fire Department filled in at Station 1 to cover any additional calls. Randolph County EMS and the Asheboro Police Department also arrived on the scene. Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire, and all four of the house pets were accounted for during the response.
PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL The Randolph County Board of Elections building is pictured in this 2022 file photo. PHOTO NorthState says the underserved areas are targeted, including those areas of Randolph County in addition to Bethania, Lewisville, and Winston-Salem in Forsyth County. early voting removed in county
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♦ Seibert, Sarah Elizabeth (F, 32), Larceny, at Hoover Hill Rd/Slick Rodk Mtn, on 07/14/2021.
♦ Peggy Kern Hammond, age 82 formerly of Star, died on August 10, 2022.
♦ Lynch, Detrick Lamont (M, 40), Arrest on charge of Misdemeanor Possession of Schedule VI CS, Possessiong of Stolen Motor Vehicle, at I-85 Exit 111, on 07/13/2021. ♦ McQueen, James Allen Jr (M, 35), Arrest on charge of Possession of Marijuana up to 1/2 oz., Possession of drug paraphernalia, Failure to appeal on felony, failure to appear on misdemeanor, at 176 E. Salisbury St, Asheboro, on Millikan, Bobby Wayne (M, 33), Arrest on charge of Assault on a Female, at 8300 Curtis Power Rd, Bennett, NC, on 07/14/2021.
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♦ Vanegas, Mayra Michelle (F, 21), Arrested on charge of Resist/ Obstruct Public Officer, on 8/8/22, at 308 Weatherly Rd.
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♦ Passmore, Casey Lynn, Arrest on charge of possession of marijuana up to 1/2 oz., at Randolph Courthouse, on 7/13/2021.
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♦ Kidd, Darin Lee (M, 57), Arrested on charge of Injury to Personal Property, on 8/8/22, at 176 E Salisbury St.
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Another survivor, Jules Woodson, went public with her abuse story in 2018 and has been pushing for reforms in the SBC ever since. On Friday, she re acted to the investigation news by tweeting, “May justice roll down!!!”Oklahoma pastor Mike Keah bone, who serves on the Execu tive Committee and is the vice chair of the new abuse task force, said on Twitter that the in vestigation “is not something to fear ... If there is more work to do, we will do it.”
♦ Anna Cathren (Chigger) Adcock Tillman, age 91 of Siler City, died August 13, 2022.
WWE’s July 5 “RAW” on USA Network hit 1.472 million viewers, the lowest in the 28-plus year his tory of the Levesque,show.WWE EVP of glob al talent strategy and develop ment, said the company would “take a hard look” at how it can attract more fans to the product each week. WWE can only hope the combination of live crowds and the return of box office attrac tions such as Becky Lynch, Gold berg, and Cena can ignite interest and grow ratings during the build to the marquee Aug. 21 Summer Slam at the home of the Las Ve gas“ItRaiders.neveris one thing,” Levesque said. “We see this as a moment in time to shift everything. I think you’ll see it in just the layout of ev erything, the set designs, the way it’s presented. There’s a greater emphasis on utilizing the spac es that we have and the TV aspect of it while still engaging the fans. A lot of that comes from the time we had to experiment inside the ThunderDome.”Thefirststart is putting fans — holding their homemade signs and wearing their catchphrase T-shirts — back in the seats. “When we have that live crowd, sometimes they almost become the cameras for a lot of the per formers,” Reigns said. “But when you don’t have that real-time, flesh interaction, the red light becomes the focal point for the performer.” State Journal (USPS 20451) (ISSN 2471-1365)
♦ Toomes, Jonathan Charles (M, 34), Arrested on charge of Possession of Firearm by Felon, Possession of Stolen Firearm, on 8/9/22, at 1715 S Fayetville St.
♦ Duarte, Angel Galarza (F, 32), Arrested on charge of Assault on a Female, Assault Att Ser Inj Minor Present, on 8/8/22, at 6998 Gra Lan Dr.
The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lead ers of the Southern Baptist Con vention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major en tities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple prob lems related to clergy sex abuse. The SBC’s Executive Commit tee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been sub poenaed at this point, according to the committee’s lawyers. “This is an ongoing investiga tion and we are not commenting on our discussions with DOJ,” theyThesaid.statement from SBC leaders — including Executive Committee members, seminary presidents and heads of mission organizations — gave few details about the investigation, but in dicated it dealt with widespread sexual abuse problems that have rocked the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. “Individually and collective ly each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooper ate with the investigation,” the statement said. “While we con tinue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm con viction to address those issues of the past and are implement ing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future.”
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♦ Ellis, Donald Aaron (M, 48), Arrested on charge of AWDW, on 8/7/22, at 364 White Oak St.
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By Dan Gelston The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Triple H walked with his arms crossed like an X — his signature Degenera tion X symbol — with his 7-foot tag-team partner, Joel Embiid, to ring a ceremonial bell last month before a Philadelphia 76ers play offHisgame.theme music blared through the arena, and near ly 19,000 fans hanging from the rafters roared when the wrestler hoisted his bad-guy weapon-ofchoice sledgehammer and struck theSure,bell. the setting wasn’t Wres tleMania — though Triple H lost a match in the same building when the event was held there in 1999 — but for the superstar-turned-ex ecutive, the frenzied atmosphere was a reminder of what WWE lost during the 16 months it ran without live events and raucous crowds.“Itwas a fun opportunity to get back into an arena packed full of fans and have them go nuts,” said Triple H, known these days as WWE executive Paul Levesque. “That adrenaline rush, there’s nothing like it.” WWE hasn’t been the same without its “Yes!” chants or “This is Awe-some!” singsongs once the pandemic relegated the company to running empty arena match es every week with a piped-in soundtrack and virtual fans. No Withmore.most American sports leagues settled in to their old rou tines, WWE ditched its stopgap home in Florida and resumed touring last Friday night with “Smackdown” from Houston, a pay-per-view Sunday in Texas and Dallas on Monday for the flagship “Raw” TV show on USA. WWE spruced up sets, brought back old stars and hit the reset button on TV programming humbled with record-low ratings and a strong need for new stars. “I do think if we were doing this in front of the live crowd, it would have been a situation that would have made me an even better per former,” Reigns said. “As a live performer, that simultaneous re sponse keeps you sharp. We had to adjust and adapt to the times that were in front of us.” With Hulk Hogan in the house, WWE held their only Wrestle Mania with fans this past April 10 and 11 at Raymond James Sta dium. WWE last ran a weeknight televised event with a paid crowd on March 9, 2020, in Washington. WWE then moved to its in-house performance center in Florida on March 13, before setting up what it dubbed The ThunderDome -where fans registered for spots on LED digital videoboards — for stretches in Florida at the Amway Center, Tropicana Field and the Yuengling Center. “People like Roman have been able to emotionally bring a per formance that, maybe with peo ple cheering over him, or booing over him or going into different directions over him,” have benefit ed, Levesque said. “But that’s the beauty of what we do, to go be en tertained, however you want to be entertained. As a performer, sometimes that’s difficult.”
♦ Cheek, Helenia Spinks (F, 64), Arrest on charge of Assault by pointing a gun, Discharging a firearm to cause fear, Reckless driving to endanger, Seagrove, on 07/12/2021.
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♦ Flinchum-Fenti, Brandon Tyler (M, 18), Arrested on charge of Assault by Pointing a Gun, Communicating Threats, on 8/7/22, at 1734 Ridgecrest Lane.
♦ Linda Gail McBride Rhew, age 76 of Star, died on August 10, 2022 at First Health Hospice.
August 21 Asheboro Sunday Concert – Manson Lovette 6pm – 10pm Come out Bicentennialto Park to see Mason Lovette perform. Admission is free, but please bring a lawn chair. Food trucks and local breweries will also be on site.
ASHEBORO — Enrollment at Randolph Community College isn’t likely to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels right away despite a school official pointing out unprecedented financial incentives for potential students. Chad Williams, vice president for student services at RCC, said a decline in high school students in before those classes start. Williams said there’s an effort to bolster enrollment. He cited the RCC Commitment Grant, a program designed as a funding mechanism to fill the gap that’s not covered by federal or state aid to “Therestudents.has never been a better opportunity to attend RCC and not have to worry about how to pay for it,” RCC president Dr. Robert Shackleford Jr. said. “We sion, there’s enrollment of 915. That’s off slightly from the usual number that ranges up to 1,000, WilliamsTraditionalsaid. enrollment num bers have flattened, but it’s the number of high school students in programs designed for dual en rollment that has dropped, “We’re just not seeing the level of engagement that we had seen,” Williams said. RCC held a one-week break earlier this month amid the summer semester, which began May 24 and concludes July 26. Late registration for the fall semester runs through Aug. 10, with classStill dealing with adjustments made because of the coronavirus pandemic, not all 2021 fall semester classes will be in person. Some will use a hybrid model with a mixture of face-to-faces sessions and virtual sessions. Many classes provide students with options on how to attend and participate, Friday BluegrassNight– Never Too Late Bluegrass Band Asheboro7pm Cultural and Recreation Services presents Friday Night Bluegrass at the historic Sunset Theatre. Tickets for this performance are $8 in advance or $10 at the door.
♦ Georgia Bernice Siler, 89, of ♦ Harold Eugene “Gene” home on Monday, July 12, 2021 in a tragic house fire.
♦ Tommie Lou Waldroop Knight, age 90 of Asheboro, died August 9, 2022 at her residence.
♦ Ray, Lynda Jeanette (F, 36), Arrested on charge of Simple Assault, on 8/8/22, at 6089 Kennedy Rd Trinity.
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Southern Baptist sex abuse survivor Christa Brown, who has long called for the SBC to do more to address sex abuse across its churches, celebrated the news of the DOJ “Hallelujah.investigation.It’sabout time,” Brown said in a Friday post on Twitter. “This is what’s needed.”
♦ Hill, Joshua Randall (M, 36), Arrested on charge of Possess Drug Paraphernalia, on 8/10/22, at 5603 Finch Farm Rd.
August 22 Town of Liberty City Council Meeting The5:30pmTown of Liberty City Council Meeting will take place at 239 S Fayetteville St.
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♦ Whitehead, George Alan (M, 52), Arrest on charge of Misdemeanor Possession of Schedule IV CS, Possession of Stolen motor vehicle, imporoper use of a dealer tag, failure to deliver title, failure to appear on felony, at I-85 Exit 111, on 07/13/2021.
♦ Doss, Charles Nicholas (M, 24), Arrested on charge of two counts Assault on a Female, First Degree Trespass, Resisting Public Officer, Failure to Appear on Misdemeanor, two counts Failure to Appear in Felony on 8/10/22, at 3446 Fairview Farm Rd.
♦ Williams, Codie Gray (M, 31), Arrested on charge of Possession of Stolen Goods, Felony Larceny, on 8/10/22, at RCJ.
There was no immediate comment from the Justice De partment about the investiga tion.Earlier this year, an SBC sex abuse task force released a blis tering 288-page report from out side consultant, Guidepost Solu tions. The firm’s seven-month independent investigation found disturbing details about how de nominational leaders mishan dled sex abuse claims and mis treated victims. The report focused specifical ly on how the SBC’s Executive Committee responded to abuse cases, revealing that it had se cretly maintained a list of cler gy and other church workers ac cused of abuse. The committee later apologized and released the list, which had hundreds of accused workers on it. A Guidepost spokesperson declined to comment on news of the DOJ Followingprobe.the release of the Guidepost report, the SBC vot ed during its annual meeting in June to created a way to track pastors and other church work ers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms. Earli er this week, SBC President Bart Barber, who also signed Fri day’s statement, announced the names of the Southern Baptist pastors and church members who will serve on the task force.
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♦ Richardson, Erwin Quint Jr (M, 31), Arrest on charges of Felony Larceny and Possession of Stolen Goods, at 5471 Needhams Trail, Seagrove, on 07/14/2021.
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Randolph Record RANDLEMAN — A couple of notable crime reports came during the past week from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Of fice.A citizen contacted sheriff’s office communications because of what appeared to be the un covering of pipe bombs. The sheriff’s office respond ed to Providence Church Road in Randleman. Deputies on the scene saw pictures taken by the person and confirmed that these were “consistent with the con struction of explosive material.” Area residents were asked to evacuate, and the Greensboro Police Department Bomb Squad was called in for assistance. Two viable devices and five partially constructed devices were identified and destroyed. The sheriff’s office also had assis tance from the ATF. Joshua Tyler Yehl, 30, who is in Bladen County Detention Center on unrelated charges, has been identified as a suspect in this case. Yehl’s grandparents discovered the explosives. Fugitive caught in Asheboro A Virginia fugitive was discov ered in Randolph County follow ing a welfare check, according to the sheriff’s office last week. Deputies went to a home on Fairview Farm Road in Ashe boro to perform a welfare check. Charles Nicholas Doss, 24, had three outstanding warrants for arrest and was also wanted in Virginia for felony grand larceny with full Accordingextradition.tothe sheriff’s of fice, deputies discovered Doss outside arguing with a woman. Doss then ran into the home. Deputies entered and detained him while checking on the wel fare of the other people in the home.Following an investigation, Doss was arrested on his out standing warrants and taken to the Randolph County Deten tion Center. Among the charges are two counts of misdemean or assault on a female, resisting a public officer, and first-degree trespassing.Dosswas given a $48,000 se cured bond for his outstanding warrants. He was given no bond on domestic-related charges. He was served with the fugitive warrant out of Virginia for felo ny grand larceny and was given an additional $50,000 secured bond, bringing his total bond to $98,000.
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♦ Jonathan Edward Ferree, 50, of Black Mountain, formerly of Asheboro, died July 11, 2021.
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♦ Helms, Chad Lee (M, 37), Arrest on charge of Felony Sexual Exploitation of a minor in the second degree (10 counts), 727 McDowell Rd, Asheboro, NC, on 07/12/2021.
♦ Addie Mae Hunt McLeod, age 79, died July 11, 2021, at Autumn Care in Biscoe.
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♦ Mildred Mae Cozart Poole, age 85, of Asheboro, died July 9, 2021. OBITS, page 7
♦ McGaha, Kenneth Ray Jr (M, 47), Arrested on charge of Assault by Strangulation, AWDW Serious Injury, Assault on a Female, Communcating Threats, Resisting Public Officer, Possess Schedule II CS, on 8/10/22, at 3185 Meadow Acres Sanders,Ln.Joshua Eric (M, 34), Arrested on charge of Extradition/ Fugitive Other State, on 8/10/22, at RCJ.
♦ Roark, Justin Steven (M, 30), Arrest on charge of Possession of Meth, Possession with intent to manufacture, sell or distribute heroin, Simple possession of Schedule II, III, IV CS, Maintaining Place, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, at 1029 High Point Rd, on 7/13/2021.
♦ Pugh, Robert Daniel (M, 39), Arrest on charge of Simple Assault (M), at 139 Drum St, Asheboro, on 07/14/2021.
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U.S. REP. RICHARD HUDSON “CONCENTRATED POWER has always been the enemy of liberty.”
You deserve answers in47%highersignificantlyRepublican,thisparty53%family.youaccountableandbeobligationhasthereforepeopletheexistsgovernmentOurtoserveAmericanandthetotransparenttoandyouroftwo-turnoutyearwasthantheRepublican2018. COLUMN
This quote by former President Ronald Reagan reminds us of the dangers of abuse of power, as well as the threat one-party rule can be to the rights and liberties of the American people. Last week, unfortunately, we saw this danger become a reality. Last Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a “raid” on President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, allegedly on the grounds that they were looking for “presidential records or any possibly classified material.” However, the nature of this raid remains dubious at best and, in many ways, appears to be a startling and unprecedented example of the political weaponization of the FBI and the Biden administration’s Justice Department. Never in our country’s history has such action been taken against a former president, yet the American people are still in the dark about the details of and justification for this raid. The FBI nor the Department of Justice have offered a full explanation of what happened that day. And while some Washington Democrats have voiced their opposition to this raid, many continue to ignore this clear abuse of power. Our government exists to serve the American people and therefore has an obligation to be transparent and accountable to you and your family. The American people deserve an answer on what happened at Mar-a-Lago, and I call upon both the DOJ and FBI to fully explain their actions.While Washington Democrats have failed in their obligation to be transparent with you and your family, they have also failed to address the issues most important to you. Data shows inflation remained at a 40-year high in July, with prices for goods and services continuing to batter hardworking families nationwide. Gasoline is up 44%, groceries 13.1%, electricity 15.2% and transportation 9.2%. Despite this, last week the House Democrats passed their “Inflation Expansion Act,” a bill that would raise your taxes, throw more than $350 billion of your tax dollars at radical Green New Deal climate initiatives, and make the cost of items you need every day from the grocery store to the gas pump even moreThisexpensive.billwould also needlessly expand federal bureaucracy, including adding an additional 87,000 new IRS agents to come after you. This would nearly double the size of the IRS and would give the agency more personnel than all the troops stationed at Fort Bragg, America’s largest military base. You couldn’t even fit all the IRS agents in the Carolina Panthers’Insteadstadium!ofdoubling down on the reckless spending that helped start our economic crisis, Congress needs to be focusing on real solutions for you and your family. We should begin by stopping needless government spending, lowering taxes, and building an economic environment that encourages growth and shrinks costs. Furthermore, we must take steps to secure our border. Last week, the Biden administration announced the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy. This common-sense initiative required that immigrants attempting to enter our country wait in Mexico until their immigration court hearing. Since Biden took office, over 3.1 million migrants have attempted to enter our country illegally. Additionally, we have had 500,000 known “got-aways” at our southern border since October 2021. Ending “Remain in Mexico” will only make the ongoing Biden Border Crisis worse. Border security is vital to national security, and we must take real steps to secure our border. This includes keeping “Remain in Mexico” in place, as well as implementing other proven solutions, including maintaining Title 42 authority, giving Customs and Border Patrol the resources and support it needs, and finishing the wall. Whether it’s securing the border, growing our economy, or holding government agencies like the FBI accountable, I continue to fight for what matters to you most. You deserve answers and solutions, and I’m proud to be standing up for you. | MICHAEL BARONE ARE REPUBLICANS LOSING what seemed for months to be their overwhelming advantage in elections to the House of Representatives this November? The answer is unclear. Optimistic Democrats have been thinking the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade will trigger an increase in Democratic turnout and a rethinking by Republican-leaning voters who don’t want to see abortion criminalized. Optimistic Republicans have started thinking the FBI and Justice Department’s search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Florida, will trigger a recoil by Republicanleaning voters who may have qualms about the former president, but also fear what many regard as prosecutorial persecution. Optimists are often wrong about political trends. They tend to identify 10 of the last two turning points in public opinion. But sometimes, they get things right. And there’s a nontrivial possibility that both parties’ optimists may be right this year. Consider the first claim. The Dobbs decision was announced on June 24. The first electoral test of the abortion issue came in the Kansas primary on Aug. 5. A referendum to overturn a state Supreme Court decision recognizing abortion as a right and leaving the issue to the legislature was rejected 59% to 41%. Far more Kansans voted on that issue (922,000) than in either major party’s primary for governor (738,000). It’s obvious that many Republicans voted for the pro-abortion rights position. Three qualifiers should be noted. First, partisan turnout in the primary (62% of two-party turnout) was in line with party registration data (63% Republican).Second,the picture of Kansas as a uniformly conservative rural state is misleading. In the referendum, 27% of the votes were cast in Johnson County, which contains most of metro Kansas City’s affluent suburbs. Most of the noncollege white people in that urban area live on the Missouri side of the line. Because of Johnson County, Trump’s percentage in Kansas declined in 2020, unlike next-door Missouri and Oklahoma. Third, the Kansas referendum seemed to force voters to choose between a total ban on abortion — possible in the legislature, given the state’s history — and allowing abortion with some restrictions. Polls have consistently shown that banning all abortions, like opposing all restrictions, is unpopular. Beyond Kansas, there’s some evidence that previously dispirited Democrats are rallying. The RealClearPolitics generic ballot average, tracking which party respondents favor for Congress, showed a 44% to 41% Republican lead on June 23. Now, it’s 44% to 44%. Historically, that question has underrated Republican performance, but the trend could be meaningful.It’slessapparent when you look at total partisan turnout, tabulated by pollster John Couvillon. He shows that 53% of the two-party turnout this year was Republican, significantly higher than the 47% Republican in 2018. Republican turnout is up 20%, and Democratic turnout is down 5%. There’s less difference in post-June 24 primaries, with Republican turnout up 11% and Democratic turnout down less than 1%. That suggests a reduction but not the elimination of a Republican advantage. Surely, it’s too early to fully gauge the response to the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. But the turnout on Aug. 9 in Wisconsin and Minnesota, two states without party registration, where voters are free to vote in either party’s primaries, looked much like the pre-June 24 picture nationally.Totalturnout in these two states was up 11% compared to 2018. But turnout for the Democratic contest was down 7%, whereas Republican primary turnout was up 38%. Two-party primary turnout had been 59% Democratic in 2018 but was 51% Republican in 2022. Another indicator was the special election to replace the late Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn in Minnesota’s 1st District. In 2020, this district voted 54% to 44% for Trump and 49% to 46% for Hagedorn. In the special, it voted 51% to 47% for Republican Brad Finstad against Democrat Jeff Ettinger, former Hormel CEO, who carried Hormel’s home county by 13 points. Ettinger did even better, 58% to 41%, in Olmsted County, home of the Mayo Clinic and upscale Rochester. That’s the hometown of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, Mayo’s lawyer for years and, as the only Supreme Court justice in history whose clients were mainly doctors and hospitals, the author of Roe v. Wade. So it’s looking like reactions to events are split. Democrats in upscale areas like Johnson County, Kansas, and Olmsted County, Minnesota, might be more motivated to vote because of Dobbs. Voters not sympathetic to Biden Democrats in less upscale areas, like rural counties in Minnesota that cast votes at historically high Republican percentages for Finstad, might be moving more Republican. Evidence for that includes the responses of two Republican governors who have kept their distance from Trump’s “stop the steal” claims. “A stunning move,” tweeted Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin. “Selective, politically motivated actions have no place in our democracy.”
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“Another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” tweeted Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Extravagant? Not when you’ve earned the distrust of half the country, as the FBI and Obama and Biden Justice Departments have in their treatment of Hillary Clinton, the Russia collusion hoax, and Hunter Biden. Nothing in politics is free; there is just some question about when you pay the price.
Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.
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The Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. — Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has proposed to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed Thursday.Theplan would require ap proval from courts and cred itors. The development of the Panthers’ state-of-the-art $800 million practice facility — which would have served as the team’s new headquarters — fell apart af ter highly-publicized disputes be tween Tepper and the City of Rock Hill and York County. GT Real Estate Holdings, a Delaware limited liability compa ny, announced it has filed a com prehensive plan of reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Under the terms of the plan, GTRE would resolve claims by paying $60.5 million in cash funded into a settlement trust for the benefit of contractors, subcon tractors and general unsecured creditors, $21.1 million to York County and $20 million or more to the City of Rock Hill. DT Sports Holding, LLC, a Tepper entity, previously funded $20 million in debtor-in-posses sionTepper’sfinancing.real estate company, GTRE, filled for Chapter 11 bank ruptcy on June 2. York County an nounced a few days later it was su ing Tepper for at least $21 million. Among Tepper’s companies named in the York County law suit are DT Sports Holding, LLC, Appaloosa Management LP and Tepper Sports Holding, Inc. York County officials previously said they filed the lawsuit to protect the county and its taxpayers and recover damages caused by the defendants.Thecomplaint said Tepper and his companies took $21 million from a special penny sales tax in tended to expand a road in York County and used the money for what the county’s lawyers called a “failed vanity project.”
MLB Rockies’ Bernard makes MLB debut after decade in minors Denver Wynton Bernard played in the major leagues a decade after he was drafted by the Padres, getting a single, stolen and run scored in his debut on Friday with the Rockies. He batted seventh and played center field against the Diamondbacks in Colorado’s 5-3 win. The 31-year-old Bernard was taken in the 35th round of the 2012 draft and spent three seasons in the Padres’ minor league system. He also played in the minors for Detroit, San Francisco and the Chicago Cubs, and internationally in Venezuela, Mexico and Australia. GOLF Japan’s Baba wins US Women’s Amateur in blowout University Place, Wash. Saki Baba routed Monet Chun of Canada 11 and 9 on Sunday to become the second Japanese winner in U.S. Women’s Amateur history. The 17-year-old Baba won the last six holes, ending the match with a birdie on the par-3 27th hole at Chambers Bay. Baba joined 1985 champion Michiko Hattori as the only Japanese winners. Baba was one of four amateurs to make the cut in the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles, tying for 49th. She shared medalist honors and reached the round of 32 in the U.S. Girls’ Junior at The Club at Olde Stone.
By Hank Kurz Jr. The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Kevin Harvick may be stamping him self as the man to beat in NA SCAR.The 2014 series champion took the lead from Joey Logano with 66 laps to go and held off Christo pher Bell at Richmond Raceway on Sunday for his second consec utive NASCAR Cup Series victo ry.Harvick, who ended a 65-race drought last week at Michigan, won for the 60th time, the fourth time at Richmond and first time on the 0.75-mile oval since 2013.
He matched Kyle Busch for ninth in career victories in the premier series and credited an increased understanding of the Next Gen car for his progress. “We’re just going to keep do ing the things that we’re doing,” Harvick said. “I think we just have to keep an open mind about things and keep progressing and keep understanding the car, un derstanding what we could have done better today, understand ing what we could have done bet ter in qualifying yesterday and do the same thing over and over,” he said after climbing from his car. He even took some blame for allowing Bell to come so close at the“Iend.knew he was coming, but I forgot to shift down the front straightaway the last time,” he said. “I was not paying attention and he got closer than he should have. I made a mistake there a couple laps doing the same thing.” Harvick’s victory also kept alive the intriguing battle for the final playoff position with two races remaining in the reg ular season. The 15 winners this year have all likely claimed play off berths unless there are new winners when the series moves to Watkins Glen and then Daytona. Bell finished second, followed by Chris Buescher, Denny Ham lin and Chase Elliott. Joey Lo gano, who led for 222 of the 400 laps, faded to sixth, followed by Martin Truex Jr. Ryan Blaney was 10th. Blaney and Truex are the top two drivers in points hop ing to make the 16-driver playoffs without a Thanksvictory.tostage points, Blaney increased his lead from 19 points to 26 over Truex for the final play off spot, assuming there is not a 16th different winner. The race featured just five cau tions for 28 laps, and that includes the two that come at the end of each stage. The last one came when Bell spun on the 252nd lap, and Harvick pulled away after a pair of green-flag pit cycles. The final pit stops under green came with just more than 50 laps to “Igo.got held up pretty bad at the beginning of the run by a cou ple slower cars and that was ul timately the difference when you get beat by a couple car lengths,” Bell said. He locked up a playoff spot with a win at Loudon on July 17.Before Bell, Buescher was on Harvick’s bumper, but never got around him. “I think it’s a little easy with this format to feel like third place doesn’t matter, but it’s nice to be close and to keep progress ing and getting better,” he said. “Just burned the rear tires up. Ultimately that’s on me. Lap traf fic didn’t do us any favors, either, but ultimately just got to keep the rears under us a little bit better so we can have a little bit better shot there to get after him for the win.”The series moves to the road course at Watkins Glen in New York next weekend.
Tepper is one of the NFL’s rich est owners. He invested more than $175 million into the halfbuilt practice facility, which is lo cated about 25 miles south of the team’s current downtown stadi um and headquarters in Char lotte, North Carolina, before con struction shut down. “This plan reflects GTRE’s promise to expeditiously resolve all claims and make payments to its creditors, including to York County and the City of Rock Hill,” according to a statement re leased by GT Real Estate Hold ings. “GTRE now has a clear path to emerge from bankruptcy made possible by substantial commit ments from DT Sports Hold ing, which has made available to GTRE more than $82 million in cash in an effort to bring this pro cess to an orderly and equitable conclusion.“GTREbelieves that the plan is in the best interests of its cred itors and anticipates that a hear ing to consider approval of the plan will occur in October of this year.”The Associated Press has reached out to officials for the City of Rock Hill and York Coun ty, but neither have responded to the proposed plan.
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“(GT Real Estate Holdings) now has a clear path to emerge from bankruptcy.” Part of a statement made by the David Tepper-owned company
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The Cup Series playoff picture remains murky with two races before the postseason
Kevin Harvick celebrates after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond.
Harvick wins at Richmond for 2nd straight victory Panthers propose to pay $82M over failed practice facility
Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has promised to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed last week.
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Calipari apologized for calling UK a “basketball school” Lexington, Ky. John Calipari says he made a mistake comparing Kentucky’s anddepartmentathletictootherscallingtheschool a “basketball school.” Calipari wrote on social media Saturday that he heard Mark Stoops’s response — in which the Kentucky football coach said,”I thought we competed in the SEC?” — to Calipari’s push for upgraded practice basketball facilities and said he reached out to his fellow Wildcats coach on Thursday and will keep trying. Calipari says comparing Kentucky’s athletic department to others was his bad. NFL Len Dawson, MVP of Chiefs’ first Super Bowl win, in hospice Kansas City, Mo. Len Dawson, the 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, has entered hospice care in Kansas City. The MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 Super Bowl victory over Minnesota in January 1970, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012. In addition to his work at KMBC where he was the station’s first sports anchor, Dawson was a game analyst for NBC and the Chiefs’ radio network and hosted HBO’s “Inside the NFL” show.
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Asheboro coach Blake Brewer, here at practice earlier this month, will try to help the Blue Comets head in the right direction.
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Randolph Record ASHEBORO — Kim Black came back as a winner as Ashe boro’s volleyball coach. Black’s third stint as coach of the Blue Comets began with Monday night’s 25-19, 25-17, 25-14 non-conference sweep of visiting Trinity at North Ashe boro Middle School. Kaylen Nance provided 23 assists and Piper Davidson had 12 digs and eight kills for Ashe boro. Sarah Hildreth’s six kills and three aces and Ellen Long’s five kills and four blocks also helped the cause for the Blue Comets.Black, the winningest coach in the program’s history, made other coaching stops since last guiding Asheboro in 2011. She directed past Blue Com ets teams to three state finals, winning the Class 3-A state championship in 1994. Madison Burgiss’ 21 assists and Sarabeth Johnson’s nine kills and four aces paced Trin ity.Monday marked the first day of competition for fall sea son sports in the North Caroli na High School Athletic Asso ciation. A slate of boys’ soccer games involving area teams was wiped out because of in clement weather or wet condi tions, with make-up dates for those games set for later in the week.
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PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNA Southwestern Randolph’s Clay Sugg, right, has a grip on East Surry’s Daniel Villasenor during his last high school match.
PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL Stratton Barwick will be at the controls of the offense again for Eastern Randolph.
Southwestern Randolph, football/wrestlingSuggwasanall-Piedmont Athletic Conference lineman for the Cougars, who had their best football season in school history last fall. He was a senior.Suggwas also an all-conference performer in wrestling. He racked up a 32-8 record, concluding by winning his final five matches on the way to a third-place finish in Class 2-A in the state tournament at 195 pounds. Those five victories came with two pins followed by three decisions, including two outcomes that avenged losses from the Midwest Regional a week earlier. Sugg has entered the military, joining the Army.Thisconcludes our summer look at select members of the Class of 2022.
ASHEBORO — There’s no rea son for members of the Asheboro football team to dwell on the past. What’s ahead is the exciting part for the Blue Comets. “The expectations are higher,” senior safety DJ Headen. “Another year to prove ourselves.” Asheboro has dipped to the depths in recent seasons, but that hasn’t depleted optimism. Coming off a one-win season, the Blue Comets are anxious to change the dialogue regarding their“Weteam.were bad last year,” senior safety and receiver Hakemme But ler said. “We’re going to change that. We’re eager. There’s more to go for. As a senior, I’m going to be theAsheboroleader.” opens Friday night at home against Randleman. Last season, the Blue Comets won at Randleman and never posted an other“Wevictory.could see the difference af ter winning a game,” coach Blake Brewer said. “And by that ninth loss, you’re limping to the finish line.”Asheboro hasn’t won more than two games in any of the last five seasons for a cumulative 6-43 mark during that stretch. Brewer said he’s hoping the awk ward nature of the offseasons prior to the past two seasons no longer will be a negative factor. The Blue Comets are 1-16 under his watch. He sensed the frustration and the uneven interest. “Don’t know if it was COVID or the state of the program,” Brewer said.There are about 70 players in the program, an uptick from the past couple of years. “I feel like every day is going pretty good so far,” Butler said. “We’ve got more guys out this year, and that’s going to help us. We’ve gotTheresubs.” are encouraging devel opments on offense, with sturdy Michael Brady at running back. Markell Graham, who suffered a broken ankle last year vs. Wheat more, is back at full speed. The quarterback will be soph omore Hamza Khan, who had a strong junior varsity season last year.“The kids have bought into him,” Brewer said. The offensive line has had nota bly solid early practices, something that might have been unexpected. Headen, also a backup running back, is a third-year starter on de fense. He said there’s a different vibe with the Blue Comets. “We’re working hard every day to turn that around,” Headen said. “There’s just a different attitude.” As the only Class 3-A in Ran dolph County, Asheboro is play ing smaller neighboring schools in non-league play before moving to the Mid-Piedmont Conference portion of its schedule. “If we can win in our county, you can get some confidence,” Brew er said. “I think we can turn that into something. We’ve got a tough conference. … We’ve got a ton of athletes. We’re going to look good coming off the bus. Eastern Randolph wants to build on last year’s dominance By Bob Sutton Randolph Record RAMSEUR — Remaining the best football team in Randolph County is only part of the quest for Eastern Randolph. The Wildcats would like to build on that. With a founda tion along the offensive line and enough talent swirling around at other positions, they could be on theirThird-yearway. starter Stratton Barwick is at quarterback, and four offensive linemen are back from a year ago. Eastern Randolph finished with a 10-1 record last season, exiting in the third round of the Class 1-A state playoffs. Only two Eastern Randolph games end ed with a margin closer than 20 points, so the Wildcats were dominant most of the time – especial ly in the Piedmont Athletic Con ference.“The way we went out (in the playoffs) last year, people are kind of doubting us and think we lost too much,” Barwick said. Veteran coach Burton Cates, who’s in the fifth season of his second go-around with Eastern Randolph, said the strength of the team should come from the offensive line. That’s anchored by right tackle Jani Norwood, a 320-pound junior. “I’ve never had anyone batter at that position,” Cates said. He’s joined along the front by returnees Mason Sechrest, Kol by Wilson, and LaDaryan Spinks. Having the combination of line men still in place is a luxury. “It’s like one heartbeat up there,” Barwick said. “We just kind of roll with it.” The playmakers around Bar wick should include Davonte Brooks, Jake Fesmire, DJ Thom as, and Nicah Taylor. Then there’s running back Ervodd Cassady, a transfer from Randleman who gained 755 yards and posted a team-leading five touchdowns while gaining All-PAC honors last year for the Tigers. “He’s fast and very quick,” Bar wickBarwicksaid. figures to be more mobile after dealing with a 2021 knee ailment and slimming down during the offseason. He threw for 39 touchdowns and six intercep tions last season. The defense has Brooks, who has moved to linebacker from de fensive end, and Julian Brooks, who has shifted from the line to form the foundation. “The defense might not have the biggest kids, but we’ve got some speed, and they’re not afraid to hit somebody,” Barwick said. Cates said a few players might play offense and defense at the be ginning of the season, but the goal will be limiting those two-way sit uations.“Early in the year, you’ve got to give everybody a chance,” he said. Eastern Randolph is the only Class 1-A team in the PAC. The Wildcats have a non-conference stacked with Class 3-A teams, in cluding an opening date Friday night at Eastern Alamance. Both teams were No. 1 regional seeds in last year’s state playoffs in their respective classes. “I think our team is smart enough to realize if we improve and stay healthy, we have a chance to do something in November,” Cates said.
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Randolph Record FORMER RANDLEMAN catcher Brooks Brannon’s sec ond professional plate appear ance resulted in a two-run single Saturday in the Flori da Complex League at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla. “It was amazing,” Brannon said of the feeling in a text to RandolphBrannon,Record.whowas a ninthround draft pick of the Boston Red Sox last month, went 1-for2 with a walk and a strike out in his debut for the Red Sox rookie club in a 16-10 loss to the Minnesota Twins mi nor-league club. He struck out on three pitches in his first atbat against Ryan Horstman, a 30-year-old on a rehabilitation assignment with a pro career that began in 2013. On Monday, in his second game, Brannon was 3-for4 with a two-run triple and scored three runs in a 14-2 vic tory against the Baltimore Ori oles rookie club. Brannon was part of backto-back state championship teams for Randleman, con cluding his high school career in June. He was a North Car olina signee but opted to turn pro after the draft.
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BOB SUTTON | NORTH STATE JOURNAL Easton Clapp Randolph Record TRINITY — Trinity and Wheatmore will try to move up from the bottom spots in the Piedmont Athletic Conference football standings this year. Trinity was 4-6 a year ago, with its lone PAC victory against Wheatmore.Wheatmore was winless in five conference games and 3-6 over all.Trinity, which plays Friday night at Chatham Central under third-year coach Marlon Morris, might be able to count on versa tile Dominic Payne and Dylan Hodges to spark the offense.
Providence Grove’s large senior class could pay off By Bob Sutton Randolph Record CLIMAX — Two of the most productive players from Provi dence Grove’s special 2021 foot ball team are gone. But don’t feel bad for the Patri ots because they’re bustling with experience.“Alotof people assume that we’re going to be pretty good,” said coach Calvin Brown, whose roster has 22 seniors. “I think that experience and being a year older is going to make a differ ence. We’re not relying on a lot of youth this year.” A second-place finish in the Piedmont Athletic Conference signaled a breakthrough for Providence Grove a year ago. Now, there could be more to come.“Ithink we’ve got a good sea son lined up,” senior linebacker Chase Whitaker said. “If there’s going to be something big, hope fully, this can be the year for it.”
Even in a new position, Easton Clapp should have ample chances to carry the ball for Southwestern Randolph.
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RANDLEMAN — The quest to return to the top is in the works for the Randleman football team. “We’re not who we want to be yet, but we’re getting pretty close,” senior quarterback Christian Long said. “I think the mentality going into this year is different. I don’t think we’re all the way there yet.”A sudden dip has given the Ti gers a sense of urgency entering the season, which begins Friday night at Randleman’sAsheboro.
Last season’s 8-3 team racked up a school-record 426 points. Often, big scoring games were needed.“Idon’t think we’ll have to score as much,” Brown said. “We might have to rely on defense.” With nine starters back on the defensive unit, there’s a sol id Thatfoundation.probably begins with Whitaker, who was the PAC De fensive Player of the Year last season. He shifts from middle linebacker to outside linebacker. “He has a nose for the foot ball,” Brown said. “If there’s a big play to be made on defense, he’s there. We’ve also got pieces to go aroundWhitaker,him.” a 180-pounder, av eraged 14.1 tackles per game, and Karson Bowman, also a return ee, made 10.7 stops per game. There are also 11 juniors, so the only sophomore on the 34-player varsity roster is quar terback candidate and lineback er Brady Collins. The Patriots, who open Fri day night at home against East Davidson, are bound to go with a combination of quarterbacks. Whitaker, who was a tight end last year on offense, and senior Andrew Canter are also contend ers. Whitaker might be a better runner, while Canter is a more accurate thrower. “It may take a little time to fig ure it out,” Brown said. “Adjust ing to that, I think our team has handled it well.” This curiosity about the pass ing attack comes because fouryear starting quarterback Luke Thomas, who set numerous school records, and team scoring and receiving leader Caleb Rog ers were seniors last season. “I’m excited to do it,” Whitaker said. “I’m not Luke Thomas. It’s hard to replace him. I can run the ball decent. … I don’t think it will wear me out too much.” He posted four touchdowns with short-yardage runs last year.Whitaker missed summer football workouts as he recov ered from May surgery to have a cyst removed from his back. The offensive weapons are nu merous. Two-way players will in clude running back / safety Zane Cheek and running back / cor nerback Zander Cheek. Zane Cheek racked up 89.5 yards per game on the ground last year. Twins Joe Coltrane and Le muel Coltrane could be keys among receivers. Last week, Providence Grove took on Burlington Williams, Southern Alamance, and Win ston-Salem Reynolds in scrim mages. Those were challenges against larger schools. “We kind of did it for a rea son to prepare for the top level of competition,” Brown said.
PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL Chase Whitaker will remain a key part of Providence Grove’s defense, but his role might expand on offense.
motto under third-year coach Shane Timmons is GSD – Get Stuff Done. So there’s an emphasis on across-the-board improvements after last season’s 4-7 record. That mark followed a three-sea son stretch when the Tigers were a combined 32-3 without a regu lar-season defeat. “Things come in cycles,” Tim mons said. “Culture starts with me.”No doubt, part of that will be embracing a physical approach. The Tigers want to hammer on foes.With that, four senior offensive linemen create what might be the strength of the team. Randleman wants to be in control along the line of Longscrimmage.saidhehas improved his ability to improvise with the ball, and he senses there are strong pieces in place around him. There were uneven outings in his first season as a starter. “He had his growing pains,” Timmons said. “He took his lumps, and he learned from his lumps.”The Tigers lost last season’s leading rusher Ervodd Cassady because of his transfer to Eastern Randolph. And they’ll begin this season without battering running back Thomas Dobias. Dobias, a standout junior line backer, will miss the opening few weeks with a knee injury. Tim mons said depth has been devel oped in some areas to help com pensate.“It’sso nice to have other guys,” he Still,said. the defense is going to have a youthful element. “When you look at the driver’s ed class, and half your defense is in it, you’re pretty young,” Tim monsSophomoresaid. Tyshaun Goldston, a transfer from Asheboro, could help at receiver and safety. The Tigers were encouraged by solid outings in last week’s scrim mages.Last August, there was a stun ning defeat to open the season, so there’s a reminder about the importance of reversing that. A “Beat Asheboro” countdown clock is in the team’s weight room. The goal is for a quick rebuild to re-establish those winning ways. “We’ve got a lot better energy this year,” Dobias said. Whether the Tigers are up to the task remains to be deter mined, they seem encouraged by the attitude. Long said that’s al ready on display. “We’ve got guys willing to play anywhere,” he said. After record seeksSouthwesternseason,Randolphtokeepitgoing
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By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO — Trying to fol low the best season in school his tory, Southwestern Randolph has moved one of its best players to an other position. It makes good sense to the Cou gars.They enter this season with Easton Clapp, the hard-running ball carrier, taking snaps at quar terback.Don’t worry; his mentality hasn’t changed. “I knew I was going to have to play quarterback this year,” said Clapp, who had been a running back. “I like it. But I also like run ning the ball, too. Running over people, I like that.” Most of all, Southwestern Ran dolph liked many of the results a year ago. The Cougars produced an 8-3 mark, setting a school re cord for wins and playing a home game in the state playoffs for the first time. “I think we just need to keep practicing hard, keep our heads focused,” tight end and backup de fensive end Eli Gravely said. “Our confidence is very high this year.” Part of that comes because de spite quarterback Keaton Reed being gone via graduation, there’s plenty to be excited about. Record-setting slot back Adam Cole figures to be a huge part of the offense and defensive second ary.Clapp, who’s up 20 points from a year ago to 185, will have the ball in his hands regularly as the quar terback. He has played that posi tion since middle school. “Easton had done that before,” coach Seth Baxter said. “In our scheme, our quarterback runs the ballHisanyway.”teammates endorse the move.“He can make things happen,” Gravely said of Clapp. “He’s got a cannon,” Cole said. “Almost as shifty as Keaton.” Clapp likes to emphasize the rushing part. “I’m going to be running the rock,” he said. “Adam will be run ning the rock. We’re going to have a strong running game.” Along with Cole, there’s Colton Law as a receiver or slotback and a couple of newcomers at the skill spots, with basketball players Sean Adkins and Marcus Robert son joining the team. “Skill-wise, as a collective group, it’s the best we’ve had,” Bax terThesaid.Cougars might look thinner along the line of scrimmage. Twoway lineman Jake Gallimore and sophomore Jose Flores could make those units sturdier. For seniors such as Cole and Clapp, who helped the program take steps toward prominence, now is no time to backtrack. “We’ve also gained a lot of key guys,” Cole said. “They’re real ly stepping it up. We’ve got talent. Everybody thinks we lost every thing and underestimates us, but we’re going to have a good season this year. We’re going to be a tough matchup for everybody. I don’t think anybody really knows what we have this year.” Clapp also will be in a role as a linebacker by the time PAC games arrive on the schedule. With 70 players in the program, Baxter said there’s a good trend with the “SuccessCougars.brings confidence, and confidence brings success,” he said. “They expect to be success ful. They understand now people know who they are.”
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Wheatmore has some offen sive potential under coach Philip Yarbrough, who’s dealing with a small roster. In its three wins last year, Wheatmore scored more than 30 points in each of those games. The Warriors, who open Friday night at home against West Da vidson, have last season’s leading tackler, linebacker Ethan Rob erts, back for a senior season.
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Quarterback Christian Long is hoping for a smoother season in his second year as Randleman’s starter.
Benjamin Randolph Burton passed away on August 8, 2022 at Mercy Atrium Hospital, Charlotte. He was 66 years old. Ben was born in Durham, NC to Ottway and Ruby Burton on March 14, 1956, and grew up in Asheboro. He was a proud Eagle Scout and participated in scouting expeditions in New Mexico, Idaho, and Japan. From elementary to Blue Ridge School, Ben made lifelong friends through his kindness and unconditional acceptance of others. Ben graduated from ECU where he began his lifelong love of Pirate athletics. He was a dedicated fan of any ECU sport and could easily recite scores and players from many seasons. Ben was happiest in Dowdy-Ficklin Stadium, clad in purple and gold, cheering the Pirates to victory.Benloved the outdoors and chose landscaping and greenhouse work as his profession. Ben was an avid reader of military history, biographies, and The Bible. Books about WWII, and classic motor cars were his favorites. Ben was a steadfast son, brother, cousin, nephew and friend to many. His devotion was legend, especially to family in the military overseas. For the last ten years of his life, he was committed to his Morningside friends and community in Concord, NC.Ben was a kind soul with a heart of gold - a gentle gentleman we will greatly miss. Ben is survived by his two sisters, Amanda Burton (Jim) McCartney of New York, Molly Burton (Chis) Tull of Charlotte NC and numerous cousins whom he adored and were his nuclear family.
June 16, 1925 — August 13, 2022
John Edwin Bloxsom November 1, 1957 — August 12, 2022
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January 26, 1941 — August 6, 2022 At 5:05PM, August 6, 2022, Jerry Lautenschleger passed peacefully in his sleep from our lives to his Heavenly forever life. He will be remembered as a great dad, loving grandfather, and an awesome man. Heaven gained an angel with a soul who’s time spent on earth was filled with joy, passion and love for his family and friends. He was greeted upon entry by those who had gone before to be part of the preparation for his arrival. The first in line with joy in her heart was his wife, Eldora Lee Thompson Lautenschleger, his “sugar bear”. They were joined by his mother, Lillian Barnes Lautenschleger Pierce; father, Harry Lautenschleger; sister, Betty Lou Lautenschleger Thomas; and his niece, Debbie Thomas. There were in-laws, friends and work associates who also lined the pathway as he proceeded to his mansion and heavenly garden filled with an abundance of beauty. Those remaining to celebrate his life and memories are his loving and devoted children, Loretta Lautenschleger Rivera (Greg) and Samuel Lautenschleger (Jeannie); precious grandchildren Drake Rivera (Emily) and Hunter Rivera (Mia Barkel); brother Roy Lautenschleger (Donna) and nieces, nephew and dear friends whose lives were touched by his life and love.
October 12, 1972 — August 4, 2022
Barry Lee Bartrug Sr., 72, passed away on August 12, 2022, at Alpine Health & Rehabilitation Center in Asheboro, NC. Barry was born in Ohio on September 10, 1949, to Paul Bartrug Sr. and Ida Eilene McDevitt. Mr. Bartrug began welding at the age of 15 and went on to own his own business, Barry’s Weld Shop. His welding career spanned more than 50 years. In his free time Barry enjoyed going to flea markets, particularly the Webb Road Flea Market in Salisbury, NC, where he was both a buyer and a seller. He was once a lover of motorcycles, having owned them himself. He enjoyed hunting and fishing with his son, Barry Jr. He also really liked watching movies in his down time. Barry is survived by his son, Barry Bartrug Jr. (Donna); grandchildren: Barry Bartrug III (Holly), Dalen Bartrug, Rachel Kindley, Presley McKnight, Darren Ray, Brian Lovelace, Ashley Floyd (Jason) and Tahia Kennedy; greatgrandchildren: Noah Bartrug. He is also survived by his brother, Paul Bartrug Jr. (Barbara), and his sister, Barbara Deam (Ron). In addition to his parents, Barry was preceded in death by his wife, Teresa Bartrug; his daughter, Julie Bartrug Lovelace, and his granddaughter, Amanda Lovelace. Barry was also preceded in death by his loving companion and long-time best friend, Biscuit the boxer.
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Marlene Ella Okrzesik Tracy February 3, 1947 — August 10, 2022 Marlene Ella Okrzesik Tracy, age 75, of Asheboro passed away on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at Moses Cone Hospital. Mrs. Tracy was born in La Porte, IN on February 3, 1947 to Joseph and Phyllis Langman Okrzesik. Marlene loved to cook and bake, and was employed as a cook for many years. She was known for her breads, cookies, and chili. Marlene enjoyed listening to music. In addition to her parents, Marlene was preceded in death by her brothers, Ricky, Joe, and Frank Okrzesik. She is survived by her husband of 39 years, Robert "Bob" Tracy; children, Shane Tracy, Tammy Hines, Shawn Phillips, Julie Ricottone, Lonnie Phillips, Stephen Tracy, William Tracy, and Darcy Tracy. 12 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; brother, Terry Okrzesik; and sister, Valerie DeWitt.
John Edwin Bloxsom, age 64 of Denton, passed away on Thursday, August 12, 2022. John was born on November 1, 1957 in Camden, NJ. John was the rock of his family and had one of the most infectious smiles and laughs. He was a former owner/operator of Colonial Materials in Pleasant Garden before retiring. He liked to hire local folks and was a mentor to many of them. When he wasn’t working, he was an avid fisherman and hunter. John loved working in his garden and enjoyed giving away much of what was grown to family, friends, neighbors, and organizations. John loved working on the family land, riding his tractor, playing guitar and singing. He is a member at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Lexington where he served on the parish council, finance committee, and sang in the choir. John loved his family and adored his eight grandchildren. John is preceded in death by his sister, Patricia Ann Bloxsom.Johnis survived by his wife of 42 years, Karen Hunter Bloxsom; children, Jaimie Malone of Raleigh, John Ryan (Becca) Bloxsom of Granite Quarry, and Kaitlin (Justin) Grant of Denton; grandchildren, Michael John, Cole, John Ellis, Peytan, Charlotte, Callen, Vera, and Edith; father, John Bloxsom, Sr.; mother, Kathleen Doyle; sister, Kathy (Gene) Barber of Hammonton, NJ; brother, Brian Bloxsom of Asheville; and his brother-in-law and right hand man of the home, Bill Hunter. Memorials may be made in John’s honor to Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, 619 S. Main St., Lexington, NC 27292
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Our dear mother, Julia Lammonds VanDerveer, (lovingly called Ju Ju), sadly passed away on Saturday, August 13, 2022 at the age of 97 at First Health Moore Regional Hospital. She was a wonderful mother who was always there when we needed her. Julia was born on June 16, 1925, in Biscoe, NC. She was the daughter of Lora Wright Lammonds. She was a faithful servant of God, first and foremost. She was a loving and devoted wife to her husband, whom she herself nursed for 21 years on the dialysis machine at home. They were business owners, and she was most remembered for her fabric shop, "Stitches and Things". She enjoyed listening to Alan Jackson's Gospel music. She also enjoyed reading, sewing, and crafting, until blindness robbed her of her vision. It was not uncommon when her name was spoken to hear about her bridal creations. Last, but not least, she loved her two dogs, Amy and Mia. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Harold Lester VanDerveer Sr, and a sister and three brothers. Julia is survived by her four children: Judy Lamonds of Biscoe; Ann Cranford of Troy; Harold L. VanDerveer Jr. of Biscoe and Cathy Charpentier (Tony) of Biscoe. She was blessed with nine grandchildren, multiple great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
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Danny VoncannonRay February 27, 1949 — August 13, 2022
November 25, 1953 — August 8, 2022 Melody Lynn Reece Hancock, 68, of Randleman, passed away on August 8, 2022, at Moses Cone Hospital, Greensboro. She was born on November 25, 1953, to Fred and Myrtle Moore ReeceMelody was a native of Randolph County and a 1972 graduate of Randleman High School. She worked for many years and retired as the Clerk for the City of Randleman. She enjoyed traveling, reading and, in earlier years, loved to go white waterSherafting.waspreceded in death by siblings: Johnny and Dwayne Reece and Pat MelodyHackney.issurvived by her husband: Douglas Hancock. Ashley Reeves
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Danny Ray Voncannon, 73, passed away on August 13, 2022, at Randolph Health in Asheboro. Danny was born on February 27, 1949, to Nina Beane Voncannon and Treece Voncannon. He was a resident of Seagrove, NC and a member of Seagrove United Methodist Church. Danny worked at Energizer for 40 years and also spent time as a car dealer. His hobby was restoring old cars. He was especially good at painting them, and he took great pride in keeping his own vehicles meticulously clean. Danny’s greatest love and joy in life was his wife of 44 years, Margaret Latham Voncannon. Their special bond will never die. He was a lover of the outdoors, often spending time in his garden. He will be dearly missed by his baby, Lola the Labrador retriever. Mr. Voncannon is survived by his adoring wife, Margaret Voncannon, of the home. In addition, he is survived by his brother, Jimmy Voncannon (Geneva) of Seagrove; sisters, Susie Voncannon of Charlotte and Linda Voncannon of Miami; as well as several nieces and nephews. Danny was preceded in death by his parents and his three brothers: Jerry Voncannon, Bobby Voncannon and Zeke Voncannon. He was also preceded in death by two nephews, Sam Voncannon and Eddie Voncannon.
Affectionately known as PoPo, his life of 81 years brought joy and happiness not only to his immediate family but also to those he called family through the years. Together we experienced so many firsts - new foods, snow skiing, travel - Jamaica, New Orleans, Colorado, Oregon, Venezuela, Florida, Ohio, Niagara, dog-sledding, snowmobiling, kayaking, biking, camping, fishing, amusement parks, zoos, aquariums, Navy ships, Airforce museum, Penn State Penitentiary, Milburn Orchards, raceways, ATVs, sand dune driving, beach walks, sunsets, hot tubs, Uno, dog walks and evenings listening to epic country music that will never go out of style.
September 6, 1938 — August 4, 2022 Wallace Reid Kearns, 83, of Atlanta, GA passed away on August 5, 2022, at Emory University Hospital Midtown. Reid was born to Charles Eugene and Chloe Allen Kearns in Asheboro, NC on September 6, 1938, and graduated from Asheboro High School. He then attended LeesMcRae college in Banner Elk, before transferring to High Point College, where he was an active member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and finished his Bachelor of Science degree.Reid married Lois Williamson on October 12, 1973 and enjoyed almost 50 years of marriage. He enjoyed many outdoor activities, such as yardwork and working in the garden, as well as boating and spending time at the beach. He was a lover of all types of music and enjoyed attending the Greensboro Symphony. In his later life, he was an avid reader. Reid started out as a partner in a local accounting firm and spent over 40 years as a CPA. He was also a member of the Randolph County Tourism Board and deeply invested in advocating and supporting local attractions to promote tourism, such as the North Carolina Zoo and Seagrove pottery. Reid was a member of First Presbyterian Church and First United Methodist Church and was very active in the leadership, serving as an officer of both churches. Reid is survived by his loving wife, Lois Kearns of Atlanta, GA, his son Rodney (wife Beth) Kearns of Atlanta, GA, daughter Lynn Polanco of Atlanta, GA, and sister Sue Rossman (husband Robert Lawrence) of Brevard, NC, as well as many nieces and nephews. Reid was preceded in death by his parents, sisters Shirley Ann Price and Norma Jane Meadows, and his grand-son Lance Hinshaw. Melody Lynn HancockReece
September 10, 1949 — August 12, 2022
Jennifer Ashley Reeves, 49, of Randleman, passed away on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at her homeShe. was born on October 12, 1972, to Franklin and Sammie Talbert Reeves.Ashley grew up in Albemarle attending Albemarle High School and Stanly County Community College. She has lived for the past 30 years in Randleman, NC working in customer service and enjoying the love of family and friends. Ashley is survived by her son: Drayton Reeves; two aunts: Ellen (Jerry) Farmer of Lewisville, NC; Linda Talbert Goodman of Mt. Gilead, NC; grandmother: Ruby Troutman of Albemarle, NC; and special friend: Ritchie Burleson of Albemarle, NC and several cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents.Memorials are suggested to the Autism Society of America.
The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Banks along parts of the Colorado Riv er where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the West ern U.S. hotter and drier. More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the region from diverting more water than flows through it, de pleting key reservoirs to levels that now jeopardize delivery and hydropower production. Cities and farms in seven U.S. states are bracing for cuts this week as officials stare down a deadline to propose unprecedent ed reductions to their use of the water, setting up what’s expected to be the most consequential week for Colorado River policy in years. The U.S. Bureau of Reclama tion in June told the states — Ar izona, California, Colorado, Ne vada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — to figure out how to use at least 15% less water next year, or have restrictions imposed on them. On top of that, the bu reau is expected to publish hy drology projections that will trig ger additional cuts already agreed to.“The challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history,” Camille Tou ton, the bureau’s commissioner, said in a U.S. Senate hearing that month.Tensions over the extent of the cuts and how to spread them eq uitably have flared, with states pointing fingers and stubbornly clinging to their water rights de spite the looming Representativescrisis.from the sev en states convened in Denver last week for eleventh-hour negotia tions behind closed doors. Offi cials party to discussions said the most likely targets for cuts are farmers in Arizona and Califor nia. Agricultural districts in those states are asking to be paid gener ously to shoulder that burden. The Colorado River cascades down from the Rocky Mountains into the arid deserts of the South west. It’s the primary water sup ply for 40 million people. About 70% of its water goes toward ir rigation, sustaining a $15 billiona-year agricultural industry that supplies 90% of the United States’ winter vegetables.
The river is divided among Mexico and the seven U.S. states under a series of agreements that date back a century, to a time when more water flowed through the river. But climate change has transformed the river’s hydrolo gy, providing less snowmelt and causing hotter temperatures and more evaporation. As it’s yielded less water, the states have agreed to cuts tied to the levels of reser voirs that store river water. Last year, federal officials for the first time declared a water shortage, triggering cuts to Neva da, Arizona and Mexico’s share of the river to help prevent the two largest reservoirs — Lake Powell and Lake Mead — from dropping low enough to threaten hydro power production and stop water from flowing through their dams. The proposals for supplemen tal cuts due this week have in flamed disagreement between up per basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — and lower basin states — Arizo na, California and Nevada — over how to spread the pain. The lower basin states use most of the water and have thus far shouldered most of the cuts. The upper basin states have historically not used their full allocations but want to main tain their water rights to plan for population growth. “It’s going to come to a head particularly if the upper basin states continue their negotiating position, saying, ‘We’re not mak ing any cuts,’” said Bruce Babbitt, who served as Interior secretary fromLower2003-2011.basinstates have yet to go public with plans to contrib ute, but officials said last week that they had a tentative propos al to reduce consumption that fell slightly short of the federal gov ernment’s request to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet. An acre-foot of water is enough to serve 2-3 households annually. Southern California cities like ly will be putting up money that could fund fallowing farmland in places like Imperial County and water managers are considering leaving water they’ve stored in Lake Mead as part of their contri bution.Arizona will likely be hit hard with reductions. The state has in the past few years shouldered much of the cuts and with its growing population and robust agricultural industry, has less wiggle room than its neighbors to take on more, said Arizona De partment of Water Resources Di rector Tom IrrigatorsBuschatzke.aroundYuma, Arizo na, have proposed taking 925,000 acre-feet less of Colorado Riv er water in 2023 and leaving it in Lake Mead if they’re paid $1.4 bil lion, or $1,500 per acre-foot. The cost is far above the going rate, but irrigators defended their pro posal as fair considering the cost to grow crops and get them to market.
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The district attorney’s investi gation stems from a September 2020 State Board of Elections complaint filed against Stein’s committee by his then-challeng er, Republican Jim O’Neill. The ad talks about untest ed rape kits held by local law en forcement agencies, and a wom an appearing in the commercial asserts that O’Neill “left 1,500 rape kits sitting on a shelf” in Forsyth County, where he’s been district attorney since 2009. O’Neill’s campaign argued that the ad was false and subject to the law since police agencies, and not prosecutors, are respon sible for testing the kits. Stein narrowly defeated O’Neill in the November 2020 election. Freeman’s office has pursued prosecution even though the State Board of Elections in May 2021 recommended that the in vestigation related to the com plaint from O’Neill’s commit tee be closed. The report’s author wrote that “ambiguity” in the ad’s language made it “inconclusive” to determine whether a violation of the law occurred. Stein’s attorneys filed the in vestigation report with Eagles on Friday after WBTV obtained a copy, saying it was “new infor mation, deliberately withheld” by Freeman and the elections board. Freeman, a Democrat who has recused herself from the case be cause of a close working rela tionship with Stein and O’Neill, defended the decision by a top deputy handling the probe to pursue the investigation despite the board’s suggestion. That deputy, David Saacks, de termined additional investiga tion was needed after the board completed its work, Freeman told the station. The State Bureau of Investigation was brought in to assist.The state Democratic Par ty called on Freeman last week to promptly investigate state ments that O’Neill made public ly during the 2020 campaign and it says were false. Similar allega tions were made by Stein’s former campaign manager to the state board.Freeman told The Associat ed Press last week that her office wouldn’t consider the Democrat ic Party’s demand because they hadn’t followed normal proce dures and filed its own complaint with the board.
REED SAXON | AP PHOTO Farmer John Hawk looks over his land as his seed onion fields are watered in Holtville, Calif.
Judge again refuses to block use of law in Stein probe
AP PHOTO N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein speaks in favor of protecting abortion access during a news conference at the North Carolina Department of Justice, in Raleigh.
Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use
By Gary D. Roberton The Associated Press RALEIGH — A federal judge on Monday again refused to block a North Carolina district attorney from pursuing charges using a specific state law about a 2020 television commercial run by state Attorney General Josh Stein’sCampaigncampaign.lawyers for Stein, a Democrat, have argued that a law targeting allegedly false ads vio lates free speech rights and is in herently unconstitutional. But U.S. District Judge Cath erine Eagles on Monday declined to temporarily prevent that law from being enforced while the campaign committee and others related to Stein’s campaign file an appeal at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of EaglesAppeals.lastweek already re jected a request by the campaign and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit to set aside the law while they seek to have the criminal statute struck down. In a reversal from a July deci sion, the judge ruled Aug. 9 that Stein’s campaign committee was unlikely to be successful on legal claims that the law addressing false statements against political candidates is unconstitutional on its Theface.lawsuit was filed days be fore Wake County District At torney Lorrin Freeman’s office had planned to take the results of an investigation over the ad to a grand jury, according to le galEaglesbriefs.said Monday that while lawyers for Stein’s campaign have made a “good argument” in the case, there are other factors that weigh against an injunction. There’s no guarantee that the 4th Circuit will resolve the mat ter before a two-year window al lowed for Freeman to pursue charges expires in October, Ea gles wrote. And it’s uncertain whether a grand jury will charge anyone with a crime. “If and when it does, the charged person can raise these constitutional defenses in state court,” she wrote. Eagles’ rulings put additional legal pressure upon Stein, a po tential 2024 governor’s contend er, to prevent a situation where people — whether it be Stein or anyone else — face misdemean or criminal charges. The lawsuit has Stein fighting enforcement of a law, when one of his chief du ties as attorney general is to de fend state laws in court. The law, which dates to at least 1931, makes it illegal to knowing ly circulate false “derogatory” re ports about candidates to harm them at the ballot box.
Carolina Classic Fair Accepting Competition Entries Until September 1
The Carolina Classic Fair— North Carolina’s second-largest agricultural fair—is accepting entries for a wide variety of competitive exhibits including baking, livestock, photography, art and more. All entries must be submitted by September 1 for this year’s fair, which will take place in Winston-Salem from September 30 through October 9. “I encourage anyone who has an interest or hobby related to our competitive exhibits to enter. There’s a competition for everyone at the Carolina Classic Fair,” Carolina Classic Fair Entry & Logistics Coordinator Rachael Lough said. “Step right up and see if you have what it takes to earn bragging rights for one of our prized blue ribbons. Best of all, you could win a share of the more than $225,000 in prize money that we’re offering this year.”
tickets and Strates Ride vouchers to the Carolina Classic Fair are now available through Ticketmaster, the Fair’s website at CarolinaClassicFair.com, the Fairground’s Box Office NSJ Ex-patrol leader, current police chief picked as North Carolina marshals
“These are officials who will be indispensable to upholding the rule of law.
Statement from the White House
The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The 10foot par putt in regulation was so crucial and the moment so import ant that Will Zalatoris doesn’t re member screaming out when he made it, “What are they gonna say now?”Ittook three playoff holes to get the answer Sunday in the FedEx St. Jude Championship, and it was more along the lines of what they won’tZalatorissay. is no longer the best on the PGA Tour without a victory. Already a force in the majors, Zalatoris got that first win out of the way with clutch putts and smart decisions to beat Sepp Stra ka and capture the first FedEx Cup playoffs event. “It’s hard to say, ‘About time,’ when it’s your second year on tour, but it’s about time,” Zalatoris said. “Considering all those close finish es, it means a lot.” He could have been referring to his runner-up to Hideki Mat suyama in the Masters last year, playoff losses at Torrey Pines and at Southern Hills in the PGA Championship, and most recent ly the putt that burned the edge of the cup that kept him from a U.S. OpenThisplayoff.onecould have gone ei ther way, a playoff that featured three penalty drops in three holes, neither player making birdie and Zalatoris winning on the par-3 11th with a bogey. He looked to be in trouble from a fairway bunker on the 18th in regulation until Zalatoris made that 10-footer for par at a 4-under 66. He was in the trees, close to a boundary fence on the 18th on the second playoff hole when he wise ly chipped out and made a 15-foot parNothingputt. was more wild than the final hole. His tee shot hit the bank and then bounced seven times on the rocks before coming to rest. Stra ka followed with a shot that hit the bank, took one bounce off the rocks and went into the water. A huge break for Zalatoris? Not real ly. He had no realistic shot. Straka went to the drop zone and his wedge went into the back bunker. He played his fourth shot out to 4 feet as Zalatoris was still going over his “Consideringoptions.where Sepp was and he had 4 feet for 5, there’s no reason for me to try that shot and make it bank right into the grass and go back in the water and all of a sudden I’ve lost the golf tourna ment,” Zalatoris said. He went to the drop zone, hit to 7 feet and let his raised hands drop over his head in relief when he made the winning putt. Zalatoris moves into the top 10 in the world for the first time and takes the No. 1 spot in the FedEx Cup, assuring him a reasonable shot at the $18 million prize in two weeks.Straka, already a winner this year in the Honda Classic, nar rowly missed a 20-foot birdie putt for the win on the 18th for a 67. He had a 25-foot putt for the win on the 18th on the first playoff hole and had to make a 7-footer the second time around to stay in the game.“This course is where every shot you hit you’re on the edge of your seat,” Straka said. “Add the nerves of competing for a tournament to that, especially for a playoff event and yeah, it can get a little crazy.” They finished at 15-under 265.
Will Zalatoris gets 1st PGA Tour win in playoff at Memphis
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Twin City Herald staff WINSTON-SALEM — A re cent State Highway Patrol com mander and the current Win ston-Salem police chief will be among President Joe Biden’s nominees to serve as North Car olina’s three U.S. marshals. Biden announced on Tuesday that retired patrol Col. Glenn McNeill is his choice to become marshal for the Eastern District of North Carolina, while the president said it’s his intent to nominate Winston-Salem Chief Catrina Thompson for the Mid dle District post. The nominee for the Western District will be Terry Burgin, who is currently the district’s se curity officer for the U.S. Mar shals Service. He was Lincol nton’s police chief for 16 years before joining the marshals ser vice in Marshal2005.nominees are subject to U.S. Senate confirmation. McNeill, who joined the pa trol in 1993, was appointed the agency’s commander by Gov. Roy Cooper in 2017. He an nounced his patrol retirement in FebruaryThompson2021.has served as the Chief of the Winston-Salem, North Carolina Police Depart ment since 2017. Ms. Thompson has held various other roles with the Winston-Salem Police De partment, since joining as a Po lice Officer in 1994. She served as the Assistant Chief from 2016 to 2017, Captain from 2014 to 2016, Lieutenant from 2006 to 2014, Sergeant from 2003 to 2006, and Corporal from 1998 to 2003. Ms. Thompson re ceived her M.P.A. from Appala chian State University in 2009 and her B.S. from Wayne State University in 1992. Marshals’ duties include pro tecting federal judges, captur ing federal fugitives and housing and transporting federal prison ers.A statement from the White House praised the three, saying, “These are officials who will be indispensable to upholding the rule of law. These individuals were chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, their profes sionalism, their experience and credentials, and their dedication to pursuing equal justice for all.”
In addition to fine art, crafts, floriculture, culinary, wine, decorated holiday tree, and essay competitions—to name just some of the many categories—the Carolina Classic Fair offers a wide range of livestock competitions, including beef, dairy, sheep, lamb, and poultry categories. Most of the livestock awards also are given in youthDiscountedcategories.admission
COURTESY PHOTOS Social Services receives additional donated fans Centenary United Methodist Church donated an additional 31 fans to Operation Fan Heat Relief at the Forsyth County Department of Social Services. The fans were delivered on August 10. To date, the church has donated 52 fans to the program. Last month, more than 150 fans were distributed by Social Services staff to Forsyth County adults who are age 60 and older, or who have a disability, with a home situation where a threat to health and well-being exists. The additional fans will be distributed to those on the program’s waitlist. Operation Fan Heat Relief (OFHR) is a summer program intended to provide a more comfortable living environment and reduce heat related illnesses. The program is funded by the Piedmont Triad Regional Council’s Area Agency on Aging (through a contribution from Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress). Fans were also purchased using Forsyth County funds. In the above photos, fans donated by Centenary United Methodist Church are delivered to the Forsyth County Department of Social Services for Operation Fan Heat Relief.
MARK HUMPHREY | AP PHOTO Will Zalatoris celebrates during the final round of the St. Jude Championship golf tournament, Aug. 14, 2022, in Memphis, Tenn.
♦ NAVA, MANUEL FUENTES was arrested on a charge of ADW - INFLICT INJURY at 1137 NE TWENTY-THIRD ST on 8/13/2022 ♦ PELAGIO, RODRIGO CORTEZ was arrested on a charge of 9095H2 TRAFF METHAQ at 3525 YARBROUGH AV on 8/11/2022
♦ Mary “Jane” Andrew Christie, 79, of Buncombe County, died August 12, 2022.
ARE REPUBLICANS LOSING what seemed for months to be their overwhelming advantage in elections to the House of Representatives this November? The answer is unclear. Optimistic Democrats have been thinking the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade will trigger an increase in Democratic turnout and a rethinking by Republican-leaning voters who don’t want to see abortion criminalized. Optimistic Republicans have started thinking the FBI and Justice Department’s search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Florida, will trigger a recoil by Republicanleaning voters who may have qualms about the former president, but also fear what many regard as prosecutorial persecution. Optimists are often wrong about political trends. They tend to identify 10 of the last two turning points in public opinion. But sometimes, they get things right. And there’s a nontrivial possibility that both parties’ optimists may be right this year. Consider the first claim. The Dobbs decision was announced on June 24. The first electoral test of the abortion issue came in the Kansas primary on Aug. 5. A referendum to overturn a state Supreme Court decision recognizing abortion as a right and leaving the issue to the legislature was rejected 59% to 41%. Far more Kansans voted on that issue (922,000) than in either major party’s primary for governor (738,000). It’s obvious that many Republicans voted for the pro-abortion rightsThreeposition.qualifiers should be noted. First, partisan turnout in the primary (62% of two-party turnout) was in line with party registration data (63% Republican).Second,the picture of Kansas as a uniformly conservative rural state is misleading. In the referendum, 27% of the votes were cast in Johnson County, which contains most of metro Kansas City’s affluent suburbs. Most of the noncollege white people in that urban area live on the Missouri side of the line. Because of Johnson County, Trump’s percentage in Kansas declined in 2020, unlike next-door Missouri and Oklahoma. Third, the Kansas referendum seemed to force voters to choose between a total ban on abortion — possible in the legislature, given the state’s history — and allowing abortion with some restrictions. Polls have consistently shown that banning all abortions, like opposing all restrictions, is unpopular. Beyond Kansas, there’s some evidence that previously dispirited Democrats are rallying. The RealClearPolitics generic ballot average, tracking which party respondents favor for Congress, showed a 44% to 41% Republican lead on June 23. Now, it’s 44% to 44%. Historically, that question has underrated Republican performance, but the trend could be meaningful.It’slessapparent when you look at total partisan turnout, tabulated by pollster John Couvillon. He shows that 53% of the two-party turnout this year was Republican, significantly higher than the 47% Republican in 2018. Republican turnout is up 20%, and Democratic turnout is down 5%. There’s less difference in post-June 24 primaries, with Republican turnout up 11% and Democratic turnout down less than 1%. That suggests a reduction but not the elimination of a Republican advantage. Surely, it’s too early to fully gauge the response to the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. But the turnout on Aug. 9 in Wisconsin and Minnesota, two states without party registration, where voters are free to vote in either party’s primaries, looked much like the pre-June 24 picture nationally. Total turnout in these two states was up 11% compared to 2018. But turnout for the Democratic contest was down 7%, whereas Republican primary turnout was up 38%. Two-party primary turnout had been 59% Democratic in 2018 but was 51% Republican in 2022. Another indicator was the special election to replace the late Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn in Minnesota’s 1st District. In 2020, this district voted 54% to 44% for Trump and 49% to 46% for Hagedorn. In the special, it voted 51% to 47% for Republican Brad Finstad against Democrat Jeff Ettinger, former Hormel CEO, who carried Hormel’s home county by 13 points. Ettinger did even better, 58% to 41%, in Olmsted County, home of the Mayo Clinic and upscale Rochester. That’s the hometown of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, Mayo’s lawyer for years and, as the only Supreme Court justice in history whose clients were mainly doctors and hospitals, the author of Roe v. Wade. So it’s looking like reactions to events are split. Democrats in upscale areas like Johnson County, Kansas, and Olmsted County, Minnesota, might be more motivated to vote because of Dobbs. Voters not sympathetic to Biden Democrats in less upscale areas, like rural counties in Minnesota that cast votes at historically high Republican percentages for Finstad, might be moving more Republican. Evidence for that includes the responses of two Republican governors who have kept their distance from Trump’s “stop the steal” claims. “A stunning move,” tweeted Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin. “Selective, politically motivated actions have no place in our democracy.”
♦ Myers, Glen J (M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Forgery-uttering (F), 2) Forgery-uttering (F), 3) Forgeryuttering (F), 4) Forgery-uttering (F), 5) Forgery-uttering (F), 6) Financial Identity Fraud (F), 7) Financial Identity Fraud (F), 8) Financial Identity Fraud (F), 9) Fraud-obt Form Of Id By Use Of False/ficitious/fradulnt Info (M), 10) Fraud-obt Form Of Id By Use Of False/ficitious/fradulnt Info (M), 11) Fraud-obt Form Of Id By Use Of False/ficitious/ fradulnt Info (M), 12) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 13) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 14) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 15) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 16) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 17) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 18) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 19) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 20) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 21) Misd. Poss. Of Stolen Goods (M), 22) Possession Marijuana (M), and 23) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Eb 40/ mcgregor Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/11/2022 12:30.
♦ Morrison, Maurice Lamont (M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M), 2) Vand-personal Prop (M), 3) Vand-personal Prop (M), and 4) Interfering With Emergency Communication (M), at 800 Woodbriar Path, Rural Hall, NC, on 8/10/2022 03:32.
♦ PORTER, RAHSEDKITWANEEKALIL was arrested on a charge of WEAPPOSS BY FELON at 1000 E HANES MILL RD on 8/12/2022
♦ Elizabeth Hill, 92, died August 14, 2022.
♦ Bill McCarthy, 88, died August 14, 2022.
♦ HAYES, SHILOH JARED was arrested on a charge of P/W/ I/S/D MARIJUANA at 28TH & PATTERSON on 8/13/2022 ♦ HINES, JOSHUA DAVID was arrested on a charge of CCW at 98 SUMMIT SQUARE BV/ UNIVERSITY PW on 8/13/2022 ♦ Honeycutt, David Lee (M/59) Arrest on chrg of Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another State/ Indian Tribe (M), at 3910 N Main St, High Point, NC, on 8/11/2022 23:46. ♦ JUAREZACOSTA, GUADALUPE was arrested on a charge of TRAFFICKING METHAMPHETAMINEIN OR AMPHETAMINE at 3525 YARBROUGH AV on 8/11/2022 ♦ Mays, Amanda Dawn (F/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possession Control Substance Jail (F), 2) Drug Trafficking (F), and 3) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/14/2022 23:50. ♦ Mccullough, Egior Okane (M/40) Arrest on chrg of 1) Resisting Arrest (M), 2) Speeding To Elude Arrest (F), 3) Reckless Driving (M), 4) Drive Wrong Side - Drive On Right Side Of Highway (M), and 5) Stop Light Violation (M), at 2019 K Court Av, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/11/2022 23:46. ♦ Mclanahan, Holly Michelle (F/38) Arrest on chrg of Impaired Driving Dwi, M (M), at 3798 Old Hollow Rd/old 66 Cr, Walkertown, NC, on 8/12/2022 19:30.
Extravagant? Not when you’ve earned the distrust of half the country, as the FBI and Obama and Biden Justice Departments have in their treatment of Hillary Clinton, the Russia collusion hoax, and Hunter Biden. Nothing in politics is free; there is just some question about when you pay the price. Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.
Will Dobbs help Democrats? Will the Mar-a-Lago raid help Republicans?
♦ Verdie Gore Morris, 83, of Winston-Salem, died August 10, 2022.
♦ William Brian Nelson, 49, died August 10, 2022.
♦ Minor, Charles Henry (M/37) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive (F), at 4032 Mecum Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 8/14/2022 05:02.
♦ PRINCE, JAKEEMI HYSAUN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-POINT GUN at 200 COUNTRYSIDE CT on 8/14/2022
♦ Swayngim, Brynn Alison (F/41) Arrest on chrg of Assault-simple (M), at 5620 Belle Av, Winstonsalem, NC, on 8/13/2022 13:19.
♦ Leana (Lee) Beamer Garner, 94, of WinstonSalem, died August 11, 2022.
♦ AIKEN, JANIAH AIYANNA was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at WINSTON LAKE on 8/15/2022 ♦ Avis, Graham Spencer (M/31) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 6030 Neal Trail Cr, Walkertown, NC, on 8/12/2022 21:40.
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♦ DUSSAP, AUDREY MARIELLE was arrested on a charge of AFFRAY at 499 N TRADE ST/W FIFTH ST on 8/11/2022 ♦ FLOYD, JEREMIAH JAHOVAH was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 1400 E CLEMMONSVILLE RD on 8/12/2022 ♦ GRAHAM, ALVIN RUDOLPH was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 1109 SALEM VALLEY RD on 8/12/2022
WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ Abarca, Laura Castro (F/27) Arrest on chrg of 1) Child Abuse (M), 2) Child Abuse (M), and 3) Impaired Driving Dwi (M), at 213 Pegg Farm Ln/punkin Ct, Kernersville, NC, on 8/12/2022 01:38.
♦ Baker, Tyrone (M/50) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive (F), at 5319 Delta Dr, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/12/2022 18:01. ♦ BENNETT, HEATHER JOYCE was arrested on a charge of AFFRAY at 499 N TRADE ST/W FIFTH ST on 8/11/2022 ♦ Butler, Charles Nelson (M/40) Arrest on chrg of Fraudcredit Card, M (M), at 5358 Reidsville Rd/belews Creek Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 8/13/2022 04:28. ♦ CAMPOS, ARNULFO MENDOZA was arrested on a charge of DRUG TRAFFICKING at 11135 BIRD DOG TRL on 8/11/2022 ♦ CHILES, CHRISTOPHER SAMUEL was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 201 N CHURCH ST on 8/12/2022 ♦ Cloud, Corey Maurice (M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F), 2) 90-95h3 Traff Cocaine (F), 3) P/w/i/s/d Sched I (F), 4) Drug Trafficking (F), 5) P/w/i/s/d Marijuana (F), 6) Maintain Dwelling (F), 7) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 8) Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 9) Weapposs By Felon (F), at 7709 Pine St, Rural Hall, NC, on 8/12/2022 07:00. ♦ Combs, Donald Howard (M/64) Arrest on chrg of Impaired Driving Dwi (M), at 3600 Harper Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 8/10/2022 16:55.
♦ Savanna Kay Saunders, 34, of Forsyth County, died August 10, 2022.
♦ Nita Carolyn Sligh, 69, of Kernersville, died August 11, 2022. ♦ Jeanne Gray West, 88, of Forsyth County, died August 10, 2022.
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♦ Joseph Leon Brown, 77, of Winston-Salem, died August 12, 2022.
“Another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” tweeted Florida’s Ron DeSantis.
♦ Temple, Taylor Jada Nicole (F/27) Arrest on chrg of 1) Impaired Driving Dwi (M), 2) Resisting Arrest (M), 3) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked (M), and 4) Reckless Driving (M), at 7700 Pine St, Rural Hall, NC, on 8/10/2022 03:14.
♦ Ramirez, Luis Carlos (M/35) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/15/2022 17:40.
♦ Larry Craig Bailey Sr., 83, of Winston-Salem, died August 11, 2022.
♦ ROMINGER, BILLY RAY was arrested on a charge of FAIL TO REGISTER - SEX OFFENDER REGISTRA at PETERS CREEK PKWY on 8/12/2022
♦ Michael Francis Hauser, 78, of Winston Salem, died August 10, 2022.
♦ Sanders, Keivaunaugh Cearon (M/21) Arrest on chrg of Weapposs By Felon (F), at 2900 New Walkertown Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/11/2022 07:00.
♦ Sanders, Keivaunaugh Cearon (M/21) Arrest on chrg of Interference W/electronic Monitoring Devices (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 8/11/2022 17:38.
♦ Shelton, Zachary Cole (M/25) Arrest on chrg of 1) Concealing Mdse (M), 2) Financial Identity Fraud (F), 3) Resisting Arrest (M), and 4) Probation Violation (F), at 5311 Cedar Green Dr, Walkertown, NC, on 8/11/2022 08:00.
♦ Thomas, Molly Allred (F/40) Arrest on chrg of 1) Felony Habitual Larceny (F), 2) Larceny/ misdemeanor (M), 3) Larcenyremove Inventory Control Device (F), and 4) Poss Stolen Goods (F), at 201 N Church St, Winstonsalem, NC, on 8/11/2022 17:38.
SIDELINEREPORT
MLB Rockies’ Bernard makes MLB debut after decade in minors Denver Wynton Bernard played in the major leagues a decade after he was drafted by the Padres, getting a single, stolen and run scored in his debut on Friday with the Rockies. He batted seventh and played center field against the Diamondbacks in Colorado’s 5-3 win. The 31-year-old Bernard was taken in the 35th round of the 2012 draft and spent three seasons in the Padres’ minor league system. He also played in the minors for Detroit, San Francisco and the Chicago Cubs, and internationally in Venezuela, Mexico and Australia.
By Hank Kurz Jr. The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Kevin Harvick may be stamping himself as the man to beat in NASCAR. The 2014 series champion took the lead from Joey Logano with 66 laps to go and held off Chris topher Bell at Richmond Raceway on Sunday for his second consec utive NASCAR Cup Series victory. Harvick, who ended a 65-race drought last week at Michigan, won for the 60th time, the fourth time at Richmond and first time on the 0.75-mile oval since 2013. He matched Kyle Busch for ninth in career victories in the premier series and credited an increased understanding of the Next Gen car for his “We’reprogress.justgoing to keep doing the things that we’re doing,” Har vick said. “I think we just have to keep an open mind about things and keep progressing and keep un derstanding the car, understand ing what we could have done bet ter today, understanding what we could have done better in quali fying yesterday and do the same thing over and over,” he said after climbing from his car. He even took some blame for al lowing Bell to come so close at the end.“I knew he was coming, but I forgot to shift down the front straightaway the last time,” he said. “I was not paying attention and he got closer than he should have. I made a mistake there a couple laps doing the same thing.” Harvick’s victory also kept alive the intriguing battle for the final playoff position with two races re maining in the regular season. The 15 winners this year have all likely claimed playoff berths unless there are new winners when the series moves to Watkins Glen and then Daytona.Bellfinished second, followed by Chris Buescher, Denny Ham lin and Chase Elliott. Joey Loga no, who led for 222 of the 400 laps, faded to sixth, followed by Martin Truex Jr. Ryan Blaney was 10th. Blaney and Truex are the top two drivers in points hoping to make the 16-driver playoffs without a victory.Thanks to stage points, Blaney increased his lead from 19 points to 26 over Truex for the final play off spot, assuming there is not a 16th different winner. The race featured just five cau tions for 28 laps, and that includes the two that come at the end of each stage. The last one came when Bell spun on the 252nd lap, and Harvick pulled away after a pair of green-flag pit cycles. The final pit stops under green came with just more than 50 laps to go.“Igot held up pretty bad at the beginning of the run by a couple slower cars and that was ultimate ly the difference when you get beat by a couple car lengths,” Bell said. He locked up a playoff spot with a win at Loudon on July 17. Before Bell, Buescher was on Harvick’s bumper, but never got around him. “I think it’s a little easy with this format to feel like third place doesn’t matter, but it’s nice to be close and to keep progressing and getting better,” he said. “Just burned the rear tires up. Ultimate ly that’s on me. Lap traffic didn’t do us any favors, either, but ultimately just got to keep the rears under us a little bit better so we can have a little bit better shot there to get af ter him for the win.” The series moves to the road course at Watkins Glen in New York next weekend.
The Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. — Caroli na Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has proposed to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned prac tice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed Thurs day.The plan would require approv al from courts and creditors. The development of the Panthers’ stateof-the-art $800 million practice facility — which would have served as the team’s new headquarters — fell apart after highly-publicized disputes between Tepper and the City of Rock Hill and York County. GT Real Estate Holdings, a Del aware limited liability company, announced it has filed a compre hensive plan of reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
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Under the terms of the plan, GTRE would resolve claims by paying $60.5 million in cash fund ed into a settlement trust for the benefit of contractors, subcontrac tors and general unsecured credi tors, $21.1 million to York Coun ty and $20 million or more to the City of Rock Hill. DT Sports Holding, LLC, a Tep per entity, previously funded $20 million in debtor-in-possession fi nancing.Tepper’s real estate company, GTRE, filled for Chapter 11 bank ruptcy on June 2. York County an nounced a few days later it was su ing Tepper for at least $21 million. Among Tepper’s companies named in the York County law suit are DT Sports Holding, LLC, Appaloosa Management LP and Tepper Sports Holding, Inc. York County officials previously said they filed the lawsuit to protect the county and its taxpayers and re cover damages caused by the de fendants.Thecomplaint said Tepper and his companies took $21 million from a special penny sales tax in tended to expand a road in York County and used the money for what the county’s lawyers called a “failed vanity project.”
Kevin Harvick celebrates after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond.
Part of a statement made by the David Tepper-owned company
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Tepper is one of the NFL’s rich est owners. He invested more than $175 million into the half-built practice facility, which is located about 25 miles south of the team’s current downtown stadium and headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, before construction shut down.“This plan reflects GTRE’s promise to expeditiously resolve all claims and make payments to its creditors, including to York Coun ty and the City of Rock Hill,” ac cording to a statement released by GT Real Estate Holdings. “GTRE now has a clear path to emerge from bankruptcy made possi ble by substantial commitments from DT Sports Holding, which has made available to GTRE more than $82 million in cash in an ef fort to bring this process to an or derly and equitable conclusion. “GTRE believes that the plan is in the best interests of its creditors and anticipates that a hearing to consider approval of the plan will occur in October of this year.” The Associated Press has reached out to officials for the City of Rock Hill and York County, but neither have responded to the pro posed plan.
“(GT Real Estate Holdings) now has a clear path to emerge from bankruptcy.”
BASKETBALLCOLLEGE Calipari apologized for calling UK a “basketball school” Lexington, Ky. John Calipari says he made a mistake comparing Kentucky’s anddepartmentathletictootherscallingtheschool a “basketball school.” Calipari wrote on social media Saturday that he heard Mark Stoops’s response — in which the Kentucky football coach said,”I thought we competed in the SEC?” — to Calipari’s push for upgraded practice basketball facilities and said he reached out to his fellow Wildcats coach on Thursday and will keep trying. Calipari says comparing Kentucky’s athletic department to others was his bad. NFL Len Dawson, MVP of Chiefs’ first Super Bowl win, in hospice Kansas City, Mo. Len Dawson, the 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, has entered hospice care in Kansas City. The MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 Super Bowl victory over Minnesota in January 1970, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012. In addition to his work at KMBC where he was the station’s first sports anchor, Dawson was a game analyst for NBC and the Chiefs’ radio network and hosted HBO’s “Inside the NFL” show.
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Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has promised to pay more than $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed last week.
GOLF Japan’s Baba wins US Women’s Amateur in blowout University Place, Wash. Saki Baba routed Monet Chun of Canada 11 and 9 on Sunday to become the second Japanese winner in U.S. Women’s Amateur history. The 17-year-old Baba won the last six holes, ending the match with a birdie on the par-3 27th hole at Chambers Bay. Baba joined 1985 champion Michiko Hattori as the only Japanese winners. Baba was one of four amateurs to make the cut in the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles, tying for 49th. She shared medalist honors and reached the round of 32 in the U.S. Girls’ Junior at The Club at Olde Stone.
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Harvick wins at Richmond for 2nd straight victory Panthers propose to pay $82M over failed practice facility
The Cup Series playoff picture remains murky with two races before the postseason
By Gary D. Roberton The Associated Press
Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use
RALEIGH — A federal judge on Monday again refused to block a North Carolina district attorney from pursuing charges using a specific state law about a 2020 television commercial run by state Attorney General Josh Stein’sCampaigncampaign.lawyers for Stein, a Democrat, have argued that a law targeting allegedly false ads vio lates free speech rights and is in herently unconstitutional. But U.S. District Judge Cath erine Eagles on Monday declined to temporarily prevent that law from being enforced while the campaign committee and others related to Stein’s campaign file an appeal at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of EaglesAppeals.lastweek
The proposals for supplemen tal cuts due this week have in flamed disagreement between up per basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — and lower basin states — Arizo na, California and Nevada — over how to spread the pain. The lower basin states use most of the water and have thus far shouldered most of the cuts. The upper basin states have historically not used their full allocations but want to main tain their water rights to plan for population growth. “It’s going to come to a head particularly if the upper basin states continue their negotiating position, saying, ‘We’re not mak ing any cuts,’” said Bruce Babbitt, who served as Interior secretary fromLower2003-2011.basinstates have yet to go public with plans to contrib ute, but officials said last week that they had a tentative propos al to reduce consumption that fell slightly short of the federal gov ernment’s request to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet. An acre-foot of water is enough to serve 2-3 households annually. Southern California cities like ly will be putting up money that could fund fallowing farmland in places like Imperial County and water managers are considering leaving water they’ve stored in Lake Mead as part of their contri bution.Arizona will likely be hit hard with reductions. The state has in the past few years shouldered much of the cuts and with its growing population and robust agricultural industry, has less wiggle room than its neighbors to take on more, said Arizona De partment of Water Resources Di rector Tom IrrigatorsBuschatzke.aroundYuma, Arizo na, have proposed taking 925,000 acre-feet less of Colorado Riv er water in 2023 and leaving it in Lake Mead if they’re paid $1.4 bil lion, or $1,500 per acre-foot. The cost is far above the going rate, but irrigators defended their pro posal as fair considering the cost to grow crops and get them to market.
already re jected a request by the campaign and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit to set aside the law while they seek to have the criminal statute struck down. In a reversal from a July deci sion, the judge ruled Aug. 9 that Stein’s campaign committee was unlikely to be successful on legal claims that the law addressing false statements against political candidates is unconstitutional on its Theface.lawsuit was filed days be fore Wake County District At torney Lorrin Freeman’s office had planned to take the results of an investigation over the ad to a grand jury, according to le galEaglesbriefs.said Monday that while lawyers for Stein’s campaign have made a “good argument” in the case, there are other factors that weigh against an injunction. There’s no guarantee that the 4th Circuit will resolve the mat ter before a two-year window al lowed for Freeman to pursue charges expires in October, Ea gles wrote. And it’s uncertain whether a grand jury will charge anyone with a crime. “If and when it does, the charged person can raise these constitutional defenses in state court,” she wrote. Eagles’ rulings put additional legal pressure upon Stein, a po tential 2024 governor’s contend er, to prevent a situation where people — whether it be Stein or anyone else — face misdemean or criminal charges. The lawsuit has Stein fighting enforcement of a law, when one of his chief du ties as attorney general is to de fend state laws in court. The law, which dates to at least 1931, makes it illegal to knowing ly circulate false “derogatory” re ports about candidates to harm them at the ballot box. The district attorney’s investi gation stems from a September 2020 State Board of Elections complaint filed against Stein’s committee by his then-challeng er, Republican Jim O’Neill. The ad talks about untest ed rape kits held by local law en forcement agencies, and a wom an appearing in the commercial asserts that O’Neill “left 1,500 rape kits sitting on a shelf” in Forsyth County, where he’s been district attorney since 2009. O’Neill’s campaign argued that the ad was false and subject to the law since police agencies, and not prosecutors, are respon sible for testing the kits. Stein narrowly defeated O’Neill in the November 2020 election. Freeman’s office has pursued prosecution even though the State Board of Elections in May 2021 recommended that the in vestigation related to the com plaint from O’Neill’s commit tee be closed. The report’s author wrote that “ambiguity” in the ad’s language made it “inconclusive” to determine whether a violation of the law occurred. Stein’s attorneys filed the in vestigation report with Eagles on Friday after WBTV obtained a copy, saying it was “new infor mation, deliberately withheld” by Freeman and the elections board. Freeman, a Democrat who has recused herself from the case be cause of a close working rela tionship with Stein and O’Neill, defended the decision by a top deputy handling the probe to pursue the investigation despite the board’s suggestion. That deputy, David Saacks, de termined additional investiga tion was needed after the board completed its work, Freeman told the station. The State Bureau of Investigation was brought in to assist.The state Democratic Par ty called on Freeman last week to promptly investigate state ments that O’Neill made public ly during the 2020 campaign and it says were false. Similar allega tions were made by Stein’s former campaign manager to the state board.Freeman told The Associat ed Press last week that her office wouldn’t consider the Democrat ic Party’s demand because they hadn’t followed normal proce dures and filed its own complaint with the board.
The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Banks along parts of the Colorado Riv er where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the West ern U.S. hotter and drier. More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the region from diverting more water than flows through it, de pleting key reservoirs to levels that now jeopardize delivery and hydropower production. Cities and farms in seven U.S. states are bracing for cuts this week as officials stare down a deadline to propose unprecedent ed reductions to their use of the water, setting up what’s expected to be the most consequential week for Colorado River policy in years. The U.S. Bureau of Reclama tion in June told the states — Ar izona, California, Colorado, Ne vada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — to figure out how to use at least 15% less water next year, or have restrictions imposed on them. On top of that, the bu reau is expected to publish hy drology projections that will trig ger additional cuts already agreed to.“The challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history,” Camille Tou ton, the bureau’s commissioner, said in a U.S. Senate hearing that month.Tensions over the extent of the cuts and how to spread them eq uitably have flared, with states pointing fingers and stubbornly clinging to their water rights de spite the looming Representativescrisis.from the sev en states convened in Denver last week for eleventh-hour negotia tions behind closed doors. Offi cials party to discussions said the most likely targets for cuts are farmers in Arizona and Califor nia. Agricultural districts in those states are asking to be paid gener ously to shoulder that burden. The Colorado River cascades down from the Rocky Mountains into the arid deserts of the South west. It’s the primary water sup ply for 40 million people. About 70% of its water goes toward ir rigation, sustaining a $15 billiona-year agricultural industry that supplies 90% of the United States’ winter vegetables.
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Judge again refuses to block use of law in Stein probe
The river is divided among Mexico and the seven U.S. states under a series of agreements that date back a century, to a time when more water flowed through the river. But climate change has transformed the river’s hydrolo gy, providing less snowmelt and causing hotter temperatures and more evaporation. As it’s yielded less water, the states have agreed to cuts tied to the levels of reser voirs that store river water. Last year, federal officials for the first time declared a water shortage, triggering cuts to Neva da, Arizona and Mexico’s share of the river to help prevent the two largest reservoirs — Lake Powell and Lake Mead — from dropping low enough to threaten hydro power production and stop water from flowing through their dams.
REED SAXON | AP PHOTO Farmer John Hawk looks over his land as his seed onion fields are watered in Holtville, Calif.
AP PHOTO N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein speaks in favor of protecting abortion access during a news conference at the North Carolina Department of Justice, in Raleigh.
The council admitted that they could not stop the incoming devel opment into the area but wanted to try and figure out a way to best control the impact of traffic. “We have this competition be tween the traffic on Highway 5, which we don’t like and are try ing to do something to correct or amend or alleviate, and we have the issue of density,” Strickland said. “And the two things are kind of at odds with each other, because arguably, if you have density, in terms of residential homes, that is going to cause less traffic on High way 5 day to day than something that is commercial, which is going to bring trips back and forth from whatever commercial businesses,
Four compliancearchitecturalpermits granted council approval By Ryan Henkel North State Journal
SOUTHERN PINES — The Town of Southern Pines Council met Tuesday, August 9, where they approved multiple architectural compliance permits as well as set a public hearing for the potential abandonment of two portions of roads within the Town limits. VG Pines Residential LLC sub mitted a request for abandonment for a portion of Mechanic Street from West Rhode Island Avenue to the right-of-way for US High way 1 and the portion of Rhode Is land Avenue that extends through the parcel currently owned by VG Pines Residential LLC. However, according to Town Engineer James Michel, the staff could not find evidence that the West Rhode Island Avenue rightof-way was ever officially accept ed or inadvertently accepted by the Town of Southern Pines and therefore was not the council’s to give away or “Mechanicvacate.Street was much more straightforward of the two requests,” Michel said. “It’s been acknowledged by all parties that it’s an existing town right-of-way and that for anything to occur there, it will take council action. What became a more complicated issue and one that took far more research was the request related to West Rhode Island Avenue.” In line with protocol, the coun cil set a public hearing to occur at the September meeting for the re quest for Followingabandonment.thatrequest, VG Pines Residential also submit ted an architectural compliance permit for the Patrick’s Pointe multi-family residential project, which the council approved. The council then approved three more architectural compliance permits: one from PTAH, LLC for a 2,172 square foot retail cafe and restaurant at 600 SW Broad Street Addition, another by Bryan Bowles of Neal Smith Engineering on behalf of PTAH, LLC for Phase 1 of the Waterworks SNC project, a 13,272-foot connection expansion, and the final one was from Mor ganton Park II, LLC for “The Luxe at Morganton Park,” a 90-unit apartment community consisting of three 30-unit buildings and six 5-bay garages located in Morgan ton Park North. The council also approved an annexation request for the Pine hurst Surgical Center to be incor porated into the Southern Pines corporate limits. “The subject property is a 5.19acre parcel of land located near the intersections of South Carlisle Street and Brucewood Road,” said Planning Director B.J. Grieve. “This subject parcel is currently developed with Pinehurst Medi cal Clinic. The property has been approved for a preliminary de velopment plan for an additional medical building, and they’re also working their way through site planThereview.”council then held a qua si-judicial hearing related to a special use permit for the request by Boles Funeral Home for an ex pansion to the building. “This is a very small addition to a pretty big building,” said John Heckethorn of Heckethorn Ar chitecture, PLLC. “The purpose of the addition is to provide a quiet lounge space for the funer al home’s staff, which they do not currently have.” Since the funeral home is cur rently a non-conforming use in the current zoning, the special use permit had to be requested from the“Thecouncil.reason [for the special use permit] is because when the land use was originally developed, it was a conforming use in the zoning at that time,” Grieves said. “It has since been zoned on the map where it is a non-conforming use, and any time you expand a non-conforming use, that expansion requires a special useFollowingpermit.” the hearing, the council approved the addition. The council approved the ac ceptance of the offering from Ra vensbrook LLC of the private roads in Phase 1 of the Ravens brook residential subdivision for perpetual maintenance. The Town of Southern Pines Council will next meet Septem ber 13. FILE PHOTO Rep. Ted Budd listens to Eric Spackey of Bluewater Defense discuss wearable technology for military and civilian use at an event in Southern Pines on Monday, Aug. 15. Read more about the Budd campaign in this week’s North State Journal’s A section.
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Two more Moore County residents win the lottery For reasons unknown, Moore County has recently become a hotbed for lotterywinning activity. Over the course of the last month, three Moore residents have won the lottery. Last week, Brian Marks of Cameron won $100,000 after hitting the 2X multiplier on a Powerball ticket. Just days prior, Cassandra Bandy of Carthage won $100,000 after purchasing a $20 scratch-off ticket at a gas station in Vass. To top it off, both of last week’s winnings came three weeks after Edward and Joan Gosselin won $150,000 in the middle of July. Boys & Girls Club gifted $100,000 after U.S. Women’s Open At the end of representativesJuly,from the ProMedica and United States Golf Association (USGA) presented the Sandhill’s Boys & Girls Club with a check for $100,000. The money was raised after the two organizations partnered up during the US Women’s Open in June. With this donation, the Boys & Girls Club has officially reached 78% of its $2.9 million goal for the Building Great Futures Campaign. The campaign, which was launched over a year ago, was designed to assist the youth of Moore County in living a healthier and more proactive lifestyle.
Council ofreappropriationapprovesFY22funds By Ryan Henkel North State Journal PINEHURST — The Village of Pinehurst Council met Tuesday, August 9, where they further dis cussed the Pinehurst South Small Area Plan and approved the reap propriation of funds from FY22 to the current year. After being tabled again at last month’s meeting, the Pinehurst Council continued the discussion of the Pinehurst South small area development plan. “I think the major emphasis right now with Pinehurst South is commercial versus residential and non-residential development and what kind of a community we see there being or not being,” said Mayor John Strickland. “Is the property west of Highway 5 going to be different than the property east of Highway 5? Those, I think, are the key concerns the coun cil has had over the last couple of meetings.”Themajority of discussion from the council focused on the con fusion around the definitions for “non-residential” as it relates to the plans and how to best try and control the impact of traffic from theThedevelopment.planhas areas labeled non-residential, but the assump tion from the zoning and plan ning board, according to Planning and Inspections Director Dar ryn Burich, was that could mean multi-use developments such as retail on the ground level with multi-family apartments above them.This confused some council members and was one reason for the council to postpone the final decision to get further clarity. The other area of concern from the council was the impact of traf fic on the site if it is developed as multi-use.“Myfirst thought about Pine hurst South is that we should be designing it to the capacity of the infrastructure and Route 5, as I understand it, is pretty much al ready full,” said council member Jane Hogeman. “It’s got 20,000 vehicle trips per day, from what I remember from the traffic study, and the high and low plans, as de picted, would add between 32 and 36% increase in the amount of traffic, so that’s not really viable.”
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The Village Council approved a budget amendment to reappro priate funds from FY22 to FY23, which is a routine agenda item that is brought forth every year for council approval. The reappropriated funds come from projects that were started but not completed as of June 30, projects that were not started at all, and unspent donated funds that have vari ous restrictions and total out to $1,437,173, according to Finan cial Services Director Brooke Hunter.“Allof the appropriations for these items lapse and add to the fund balance at the end of the fis cal year,” Hunter said. “So, this amendment essentially goes into the fund balance and pulls the appropriations back out of the fund balance and reappropriates them for the current year so they can be used as they were origi nallyTheintended.”Village of Pinehurst Council will next meet Septem ber 13.
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The Associated Press BELFAST, Maine — A private shipyard is preparing for a pains taking stem-to-stern restoration of a floating piece of presidential history.The Sequoia is a 1925 motor yacht that served eight presidents before being sold by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. French & Webb, a custom boat building company, was tapped for the restoration by the current owner. Strict guidelines must be followed because the vessel is on the National Register of Historic Places. “It’s slowly happening, but the needle is moving,” Todd French told the Bangor Daily News. For now, the 104-foot vessel re mains under a white tarp. Behind the scenes, workers have created a three-dimensional model because the original design plans couldn’t be found, and assembled materi als including longleaf pine from the Southeast and white oak from Denmark.Oncethe physical work begins, likely in the spring, the restoration of the Sequoia should be a threeyear project, he said. Over the years, several different vessels have served as a floating White House for presidents. The Sequoia was designed by a Norwegian-born naval architect and went through a couple of own ers before going up for sale follow ing the stock market crash of 1929. President Herbert Hoover en couraged the Navy to buy the ves sel, and began using it as a presi dential yacht. This Sequoia holds plenty of presidential history: John Ken nedy celebrated his last birthday aboard the vessel; Harry Truman held atomic arms talks with the leaders of Canada and Great Brit ain after World War II; and Rich ard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The vessel, which is owned by FE Partners LLC, a private in vestment firm based Washing ton, D.C., has been in Belfast since 2019. The pandemic delayed the start of work.
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This quote by former President Ronald Reagan reminds us of the dangers of abuse of power, as well as the threat one-party rule can be to the rights and liberties of the American people. Last week, unfortunately, we saw this danger become a reality. Last Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a “raid” on President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, allegedly on the grounds that they were looking for “presidential records or any possibly classified material.” However, the nature of this raid remains dubious at best and, in many ways, appears to be a startling and unprecedented example of the political weaponization of the FBI and the Biden administration’s Justice Department. Never in our country’s history has such action been taken against a former president, yet the American people are still in the dark about the details of and justification for this raid. The FBI nor the Department of Justice have offered a full explanation of what happened that day. And while some Washington Democrats have voiced their opposition to this raid, many continue to ignore this clear abuse of power. Our government exists to serve the American people and therefore has an obligation to be transparent and accountable to you and your family. The American people deserve an answer on what happened at Mar-a-Lago, and I call upon both the DOJ and FBI to fully explain their actions.While Washington Democrats have failed in their obligation to be transparent with you and your family, they have also failed to address the issues most important to you. Data shows inflation remained at a 40-year high in July, with prices for goods and services continuing to batter hardworking families nationwide. Gasoline is up 44%, groceries 13.1%, electricity 15.2% and transportation 9.2%. Despite this, last week the House Democrats passed their “Inflation Expansion Act,” a bill that would raise your taxes, throw more than $350 billion of your tax dollars at radical Green New Deal climate initiatives, and make the cost of items you need every day from the grocery store to the gas pump even moreThisexpensive.billwould also needlessly expand federal bureaucracy, including adding an additional 87,000 new IRS agents to come after you. This would nearly double the size of the IRS and would give the agency more personnel than all the troops stationed at Fort Bragg, America’s largest military base. You couldn’t even fit all the IRS agents in the Carolina Panthers’Insteadstadium!ofdoubling down on the reckless spending that helped start our economic crisis, Congress needs to be focusing on real solutions for you and your family. We should begin by stopping needless government spending, lowering taxes, and building an economic environment that encourages growth and shrinks costs. Furthermore, we must take steps to secure our border. Last week, the Biden administration announced the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy. This common-sense initiative required that immigrants attempting to enter our country wait in Mexico until their immigration court hearing. Since Biden took office, over 3.1 million migrants have attempted to enter our country illegally. Additionally, we have had 500,000 known “got-aways” at our southern border since October 2021. Ending “Remain in Mexico” will only make the ongoing Biden Border Crisis worse. Border security is vital to national security, and we must take real steps to secure our border. This includes keeping “Remain in Mexico” in place, as well as implementing other proven solutions, including maintaining Title 42 authority, giving Customs and Border Patrol the resources and support it needs, and finishing the wall. Whether it’s securing the border, growing our economy, or holding government agencies like the FBI accountable, I continue to fight for what matters to you most. You deserve answers and solutions, and I’m proud to be standing up for you. MICHAEL BARONE ARE REPUBLICANS LOSING what seemed for months to be their overwhelming advantage in elections to the House of Representatives this November? The answer is unclear. Optimistic Democrats have been thinking the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade will trigger an increase in Democratic turnout and a rethinking by Republican-leaning voters who don’t want to see abortion criminalized. Optimistic Republicans have started thinking the FBI and Justice Department’s search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Florida, will trigger a recoil by Republicanleaning voters who may have qualms about the former president, but also fear what many regard as prosecutorial persecution. Optimists are often wrong about political trends. They tend to identify 10 of the last two turning points in public opinion. But sometimes, they get things right. And there’s a nontrivial possibility that both parties’ optimists may be right this year. Consider the first claim. The Dobbs decision was announced on June 24. The first electoral test of the abortion issue came in the Kansas primary on Aug. 5. A referendum to overturn a state Supreme Court decision recognizing abortion as a right and leaving the issue to the legislature was rejected 59% to 41%. Far more Kansans voted on that issue (922,000) than in either major party’s primary for governor (738,000). It’s obvious that many Republicans voted for the pro-abortion rights position. Three qualifiers should be noted. First, partisan turnout in the primary (62% of two-party turnout) was in line with party registration data (63% Republican).Second,the picture of Kansas as a uniformly conservative rural state is misleading. In the referendum, 27% of the votes were cast in Johnson County, which contains most of metro Kansas City’s affluent suburbs. Most of the noncollege white people in that urban area live on the Missouri side of the line. Because of Johnson County, Trump’s percentage in Kansas declined in 2020, unlike next-door Missouri and Oklahoma. Third, the Kansas referendum seemed to force voters to choose between a total ban on abortion — possible in the legislature, given the state’s history — and allowing abortion with some restrictions. Polls have consistently shown that banning all abortions, like opposing all restrictions, is unpopular. Beyond Kansas, there’s some evidence that previously dispirited Democrats are rallying. The RealClearPolitics generic ballot average, tracking which party respondents favor for Congress, showed a 44% to 41% Republican lead on June 23. Now, it’s 44% to 44%. Historically, that question has underrated Republican performance, but the trend could be meaningful.It’slessapparent when you look at total partisan turnout, tabulated by pollster John Couvillon. He shows that 53% of the two-party turnout this year was Republican, significantly higher than the 47% Republican in 2018. Republican turnout is up 20%, and Democratic turnout is down 5%. There’s less difference in post-June 24 primaries, with Republican turnout up 11% and Democratic turnout down less than 1%. That suggests a reduction but not the elimination of a Republican advantage. Surely, it’s too early to fully gauge the response to the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. But the turnout on Aug. 9 in Wisconsin and Minnesota, two states without party registration, where voters are free to vote in either party’s primaries, looked much like the pre-June 24 picture nationally.Totalturnout in these two states was up 11% compared to 2018. But turnout for the Democratic contest was down 7%, whereas Republican primary turnout was up 38%. Two-party primary turnout had been 59% Democratic in 2018 but was 51% Republican in 2022. Another indicator was the special election to replace the late Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn in Minnesota’s 1st District. In 2020, this district voted 54% to 44% for Trump and 49% to 46% for Hagedorn. In the special, it voted 51% to 47% for Republican Brad Finstad against Democrat Jeff Ettinger, former Hormel CEO, who carried Hormel’s home county by 13 points. Ettinger did even better, 58% to 41%, in Olmsted County, home of the Mayo Clinic and upscale Rochester. That’s the hometown of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, Mayo’s lawyer for years and, as the only Supreme Court justice in history whose clients were mainly doctors and hospitals, the author of Roe v. Wade. So it’s looking like reactions to events are split. Democrats in upscale areas like Johnson County, Kansas, and Olmsted County, Minnesota, might be more motivated to vote because of Dobbs. Voters not sympathetic to Biden Democrats in less upscale areas, like rural counties in Minnesota that cast votes at historically high Republican percentages for Finstad, might be moving more Republican. Evidence for that includes the responses of two Republican governors who have kept their distance from Trump’s “stop the steal” claims. “A stunning move,” tweeted Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin. “Selective, politically motivated actions have no place in our democracy.”
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“Another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” tweeted Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Extravagant? Not when you’ve earned the distrust of half the country, as the FBI and Obama and Biden Justice Departments have in their treatment of Hillary Clinton, the Russia collusion hoax, and Hunter Biden. Nothing in politics is free; there is just some question about when you pay the price.
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Jerry Chandler Reynolds, 86, of Eagle Springs passed away on August 8, 2022 at his residence. Jerry was born on July 17, 1936 in Eagle Springs, one of three children to the late Marvin and Martha Hogan Reynolds. Jerry graduated from West End High School in 1954. He thoroughly enjoyed attending his class reunions with his graduating class. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in August of 1959 and honorably discharged on July 31, 1965. He was a life-long member and served as deacon at Eagle Springs Baptist Church. He served as Captain with the Eagle Springs Fire Department, retiring after 42 years of service. Jerry is survived by his sister Janet Currie; his nephew Benji Currie (Jessica) and his children Colby and Caroline Currie; nephew Chris McKenzie; niece Kathy Harris (Johnny) and a host of great nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister Betty Lou Reynolds McKenzie.
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March 29, 1932 - August 9, 2022
Susan Marie Veldhuizen, 61, of Carthage, NC passed away on Sunday, August 7, 2022 at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. She was born in Cook, Co. Illinois on November 2, 1960, one of three children to the late Arthur and Frances (Szczodrowski) Veldhuizen. She graduated high school in Park Forest, Illinois and lived in Chicago Heights for many years. Most of her working career was spent as a server at McDonalds. She attended First Baptist Church in Hammond Indiana and participated in their Bible study programs with her close friend Cynthia Mercer. Susan is survived by her older sister Sharon Herold; younger brother Roger Veldhuizen (Kathleen); niece Andrea Woods (Shaunya); nephew Jeremiah Herold; great-niece Gracelynn Veldhuizen; and cousins Robert and Linda Richcreek. Susan Strine August 6, 2022 Susan Strine, 80, of Pinehurst, North Carolina, peacefully passed away at the Pinehurst FirstHealth Hospice House on August 6, 2022. Her husband and daughter were with her. Susan had fought valiantly against pancreatic cancer for four years.Susan was the daughter of the late Arthur Cyphers and Jean Rexroth of Mt. Gilead, Ohio. She is survived by her husband, Lowell, daughter Linda (Robert), sister Sandra (Robert), and halfbrother Mark. Her son Michael is deceased. She has several nieces, nephews, great-nephews, and cousins. She was lovingly embraced by the Strine family both past and present. Susan and Lowell married in 1961. They lived in Lexington, Kentucky; Sandy Hook, Connecticut; San Jose, California; and Winchester, Kentucky prior to moving to Pinehurst in 1998. When she came to the Sandhills region of North Carolina Susan was amazed by the uniqueness of the plant species and the growing conditions under which they thrived.Susan became a charter member of the Pinehurst Greenway Wildlife Habitat Committee serving as the chair for many years and inspired growth of the group. Today, many of these members continue her legacy and have a deep appreciation for her dedication, motivation, and willingness to share her knowledge and techniques.Susanwas instrumental in leading the development of the Pollinator Habitat Garden on the Pinehurst Greenway Trail. Through the continued work of the current volunteers, it has become a showpiece and hidden gem for the village. Susan was honored with the Village of Pinehurst Volunteer Champions Award in 2017. That same year she also received the Award of Excellence by the Moore County Extension MGV. Susan’s engaging personality and glowing smile will be greatly missed by her family and all those who were fortunate enough to know her.
February 6, 1947 - August 11, 2022
Pamela Mixon Summerlin of Pinehurst, NC and formerly of Kinston and Goldsboro passed away on August 11th after a decade of cognitive decline. Pam, the daughter of Charles Daniel Mixon and Lois Paxton Mixon, was born in Lubbock, TX on February 6, 1947. She is the widow of C. Allen Summerlin, III and the mother of Shelley Leigh Summerlin and Daniel Allen Summerlin, both of Raleigh. She leaves behind a sister Deborah Mixon Edgerton of Raleigh and three grandchildren: Charles Daniel Summerlin, Sarah Harper Summerlin, and Paxton Smith Summerlin. Pam and Allen adored their grandchildren, spending many weekends with them at their homes in Kinston andPamPinehurst.graduated from Goldsboro High School in 1965 and East Carolina in 1969. She and Allen married in 1970 shortly after his return to North Carolina after having served in the Marine Corps. They raised their family in Goldsboro and Kinston, where Pam and Allen made lifelong friends who meant so much to them. Pam had a particularly special and lasting friendship with Terry Hatch Nelson of Pinehurst and formerly of Goldsboro. Terry’s loyalty and kindness will always be remembered.Pamwasan interior designer, a volunteer, a friend to many, and a committed Christian whose love for her church matched only that for her family. Pam was direct, opinionated, and determined. She was a giver and others’ centric.
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Paul Hedley Davis, Jr., age 90 of West End, NC passed away on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst. Paul was born on March 29, 1932 in Danville, VA to the late Paul Hedley Davis, Sr. and Annie Murray Davis. Paul was a Disabled American Veteran and served in the United States Army, 25th Infantry Division during the Korean Conflict. He attended Virginia deathtoSiouxgrandson,ofDavisgrandchildren:PooleEnd,NCDavisDavis;wifetheeventFestivalfounderwillservedPresbyterianlong-timeAmericanandofhisofaWestElbertaHeandveryloveUniversityCommonwealthwherehemettheofhislife,Sarah.Paulwasinvolvedinhiscommunitymanycivicorganizations.wasapastMasterMasonofLodgePost#0654inEnd.HealsowasaShriner,selectedmemberoftheKnightstheYorkCrossofHonorformilitaryservice,TheSonstheConfederateVeterans,a70-yearmemberoftheLegion.HewasamemberofWestEndChurchwhereheasapastdeacon.ManyrememberPaulasaco-oftheAberdeenSardinewhichgrewtobeamajorinOctoberofeachyearinSandhills.Paulissurvivedbyhislovingof66years,SarahPooletwosons,RobertBruce(Katina)ofRockingham,andMichaelDavisofWestNC;abrother-in-law,Sam(Dootie)ofPinehurst,NC;BruceNicholasandJacobPaulDavisRockingham,NC;astep-LarrySneadofSouthCity,Nebraska.Inadditionhisparents,hewasprecededinbyagrandson,JesseDavis.
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December 27, 1936 - August 9, 2022
Jane C. Ivey (December 27, 1936- August 9, 2022) passed away peacefully in Pinehurst, NC on August 9th. Jane grew up in Raeford, NC. She attended Hoke County High School and Sandhills Community College. In retirement Jane and her husband, Dalton, indulged their hobby and avocations in designing and maintaining many beautiful gardens at their home. They enjoyed traveling, especially to the beach and the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Jane was predeceased by her parents, husband, Dalton, and brother, Edward. She is survived by her sister, Anne, sister-in-law, Eileen, nephews Colin, Ian and John, nieces, nephews, cousins and four beloved grand nephews.
SusanVeldhuizenMarie November 2, 1960 - August 7, 2022
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Richard James Moran, age 93 of Whispering Pines, NC passed away at FirstHealth Hospice House on August 10, 2022. Richard was born in Brooklyn, NY on May 8, 1929 to Edward and Catherine (Murphy) Moran. Richard met his wife Nora in 1951 and were later married at The Church of the Good Shephard in Inwood, NY. Married on his 25th birthday in May 1954, the date came to be known as the “trifecta”, with his birthday, wedding anniversary and Mother’s Day being celebrated within days of each other. The couple celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary this last May.Landing in Whispering Pines was a happy accident. On what was meant to be a trip to investigate retirement properties in Florida, Richard passed a highway sign for Whispering Pines and was enamored with the sound of Richardit. is survived by his wife, Nora (McCusker) Moran; daughter, Annlouise Moran; granddaughters Michelle Moran and Meaghan (Moran) Whitmer; grandson Conor Cole Moran; and brother John Moran. Richard was preceded in death by son Gerard Moran, brothers Edward, Robert, and Paul Moran.
♦ Paula Hollyfield, age 59 of Southern Pines, died August 9, 2022.
July 17, 1936 - August 8, 2022
♦ Muriel Elizabeth Ryder, age 103, of Pinehurst, NC, slipped away peacefuxa ♦William (Bill) Robert Woodruff, age 93, died August 14, 2022.
THE HOKE COUNTY BUCKS football team now has two scrim mages under their belts and is getting set to head into their first regular season game this Friday night at Gray’s Creek. “We had a lot of miscues early on, and mistakes were made, but I did like our guy’s effort,” Coach Small reported after the team’s first scrimmage against Pine For est last Wednesday. “We have got to keep improving and play more consistently on both sides of the ball.”Hoke County High School is working with three quarterbacks this year after moving their for mer quarterback, Warren Av ery, to wide receiver and running back positions. The role of quar terback has since passed on to Brandon Saunders, Montez Ste phens, and Antwon Wilson. “We just needed some more backs, and Warren wanted to play some different positions,” said Small regarding his former quarterback.Onthedefensive side of the ball, it appears that the Bucks are still in need of some work up front.“We’re just not there yet, and we gave up a lot on the perime ter,” said Small about the state of his defense. “When it comes to time in pads and amount of prac tice allowed by the North Car olina High School Athletic As sociation, game speed is such a different thing than practice. We just don’t get a lot of time in pads to experience that. Some guys just don’t get into full game shape until later.” Last Friday night, the Bucks participated in the Cumberland County Football Jamboree at Cape Fear High School, where they played against Jack Britt. The Bucks had another rocky start to their game after the starting quarterback, Mont ez Stephens, bobbled the ball on the first possession and fumbled it, allowing the Buccaneers to re cover. However, due to the game being a controlled scrimmage, Hoke was allowed to maintain possession for ten plays. Hoke running back Ethan Wallace im mediately turned things around, gaining roughly 15 yards on the very next play. The Bucks ran the ball six out of eight times before Stephens connected with a wideopen Caleb Hall for a 35-yard TD reception.JackBritt took over on offense and ran five plays before the Bucks defensive line got pressure and tipped the ball. It was even tually intercepted by Emmanuel Bratcher. Due to the controlled scrimmage, Jack Britt main tained possession. The Bucks’ de fense managed to hold and, after a couple more possessions, took over on offense. The Bucks moved the ball down the field to the five-yard line when Stephens ran it in for the next touchdown. The scrim mage game ended with Hoke
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An active shooter drill was held at Hoke County High School last week. The simulation involved both officers from the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office, as well school district leaders. Every law enforcement officer was required to take part in the in the drill, which including the simulated sounds of shots being fired and teachers screaming for help. According to the Sheriff’s office, the drill revealed the importance of cooperation between law enforcement agencies and school staff. Report renamingunveilsoptions for Fort Bragg A recent report submitted to Congress regarding the renaming of nine army bases, projects that the cost of renaming Fort Bragg could be over $6.3 million. The base, which was named after Braxton Bragg, a senior officer in the Confederate Army, was established in 1918 as an artillery ground during the Army’s expansion during WWI. While the Commission in charge of renaming the bases initially recommended Fort Liberty, they have also submitted an additional list of renaming candidates, including 1Lt. Vernon Baker, MSG Roy Benavidez, SSG Félix M. Conde-Falcón, LTG James Gavin, MSG Gary Gordon & SFC Randall Shughart, CPL Rodolfo Hernández, Col Robert Howard, Gen Matthew Ridgway, Gen Colin Powell, and Gen Roscoe Robinson, Jr.
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s redrawn congressional map plac es Hoke County in familiar terri tory for the two candidates in the 9th Congressional District. Fol lowing a court-ordered redis tricting process that will be in ef fect for 2022 only, the new district runs from Randolph County down to the Sandhills, taking in all of Chatham, Lee, Hoke, Moore, and Scotland counties as well as parts of Cumberland, Harnett, and Richmond counties. The two can didates advancing from the May 17 primary are Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson and Demo cratic state Sen. Ben Clark. Hudson, who was first elect ed to Congress in 2012, found his home in Cabarrus County drawn into a district where fellow Re publican Dan Bishop was current ly representing much of the area and chose instead to run in the new district containing much of the Sandhills. In a statement an nouncing his candidacy, he noted that through much of North Car olina’s complicated redistricting litigation, he had represented 8 of the 9 counties in the 9th District at one point or another. “As Fort Bragg’s congressman, I have a proven track record as a conservative who knows how to get things done for our communi ty. You can count on me to stand up to the mandates, threats to our Second Amendment, and big gov ernment socialist policies hurt ing our economy and your family. I look forward to remaining Fort Bragg’s congressman and again earning the support of the people of the new 9th District,” he said in February.Hecurrently serves on the En ergy and Commerce Committee and is the House Republican Con ference Secretary. A five-term incumbent, Hudson easily dispatched three challeng
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Budd and Britt stop in Hoke County U.S. Congressman/Senate Candidate Ted Budd and North Carolina Senator Danny Britt made campaign stops Monday in Hoke County. The two Republican officials were invited to a luncheon put on by the Hoke County Republican Party and Republican District Attorney Mike Hardin and his wife Victoria Hardin. Approximately 65 people from downtown Raeford attended the lunch to hear from the two office holders as well as North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley.
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2 North State Journal for Wednesday, August 17, 2022 WEDNESDAY 8.17.22 “Join conversation”the 9TH DISTRICT from page 1 BUCKS from page 1 North State Journal (USPS 20451) (ISSN 2471-1365) Publisher Neal Robbins Editor Matt Mercer Sports Editor Cory Lavalette Senior Opinion Editor Frank Hill Design Editor Lauren PublishedRoseeach Wednesday by North State Media, LLC 1201 Edwards Mill Rd. Suite Raleigh,300NC 27607 TO SUBSCRIBE: 704-269-8461 or online at nsjonline.com Annual Subscription Price: $50.00 Periodicals Postage Paid at Raleigh, N.C. and at additional mailing offices. Raleigh,Suite1201to:SendPOSTMASTER:addresschangesNorthStateJournalEdwardsMillRd.300NC27607 WEEKLY FORECAST “We have got to keep improving and play more consistently on both sides of the ball” Coach George Small We are happy to discuss your needs or questions. We’re here to help! O���R���������A���C����� Committed to serving and enriching the lives of every resident Affordable Assisted Living and Memory Care Caring for Seniors Integrity Open Arms Retirement Center 612 Health Drive • Raeford, NC openarmsretirement.com • 910-875-3949 OpenArms-Generic ad.indd 1 8/4/22 2:27 PM ELECT MELISSA SWARBRICK NC House 48 Positive Change for Hoke and Scotland Counties www.swarbrickforhouse48.comEmail:swarbrickforhouse48@gmail.com ♦ LOCKLEAR, ASHLEY MICHELLE (W/F/31), HIT & RUN-MISD FAIL TO STOP, 08/08/20X CRIME LOG JOHNNY BOYLES for Hoke County Commissioner CONTACT: BOYLES4HOKE@GMAIL.COM | PAID FOR BY COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHNNY BOYLES • Hoke County Native and Lifelong Resident • Strong Christian Conservative Values • Standing Up for our Hoke County Farmer's, Agricultural Community, Law Enforcement and First Responders • Still Serving at Stonewall Fire Department 49 Years; Treasurer Over 25 years "I want to be a servant to ALL PEOPLE of Hoke County." I Support our Veterans, Active Duty Members and their Families Serving on Law Enforcement Committee Strong Business Strength while Keeping Taxes Low WEDNESDAY AUG 17 HI 80° LO 62 ° PRECIP 1 2% THURSDAY AUG 18 HI 82° LO 63° PRECIP 1 1% FRIDAY AUG 19 HI 80° LO 67 ° PRECIP 24% SATURDAY AUG 20 HI 82° LO 6 8° PRECIP 52% SUNDAY AUG 21 HI 8 4° LO 6 8° PRECIP 5 3% MONDAY AUG 22 HI 8 4° LO 6 8° PRECIP 49% TUESDAY AUG 23 HI 82° LO 6 8° PRECIP 5 8% ers in the May primary, earning 79% of the vote. His opponent, Clark, was the only Democrat to file for theAfterseat. announcing he was retiring from the North Caroli na General Assem bly in 2021, specu lation mounted that he would seek fed eral office. In his last term as a state sena tor, Clark advocated for a “Sandhills dis trict” through the re districting process. The new 9th would seem to fit many of Clark’s priorities, al though much of his Cumberland Coun ty base is in the neighboring 7th District.Anative of Fayetteville, Clark retired from a 20-year Air Force career and representing the 21st state Senate District in the Gen eral Assembly. That district en compassed all of Hoke County as well as Fort Bragg and north western Cumberland County. Clark earned a reputa tion as a potential vote for some Republican priorities in the Gen eral Assembly, includ ing some state budget votes.The district has a Republican lean based on previous election results. In 2020, for mer President Don ald Trump won 53% of the vote to 45% for Joe Biden. The clos est 2020 statewide re sult was the race for governor, as Republi can Dan Forest nar rowly prevailed over Gov. Roy Cooper by less than 1 percent age point. DecisonDeskHQ, a national elections website, rates the partisan lean of the district as R+6 and their current elec tion model gives Hudson a 98% chance of victory.
County scoring twice and hold ing Jack Britt from the endzone. “We’re still shooting ourselves in the foot at times, and a lot of our guys don’t know their assign ment, and they miss something on their alignment, which makes the execution horrible,” Small said after the game. “Something is always going to affect the ex ecution; that’s where we got to stop it, and if you guys want to be successful, better than what you are… I mean, you’ve got ev erything else to get there. Your tanks are full, and you’re run ning on super unleaded gas, but you’re still driving a Pinto. If you set your sights higher, you could be running around in a Jaguar or a Bentley.”TheBucks kick off the regular season at Gray’s Creek this Friday night in a non-conference show down. Gray’s Creek finished last season in fifth place in the United 8 Conference with an overall re cord of 4-6 and a conference re cord of 3-4. The Bucks also end ed the regular season last year in fifth place in the Sandhills Ath letic Conference with an overall record of 4-7 and a conference re cord of Gametime2-4. is set for 7:30 pm at Gray’s Creek High School in Hope Mills. COURTESY PHOTO Hoke County Head Coach George Small addressed the team after game and said, “We’re still shooting ourselves in the foot at times, and a lot of our guys don’t know their assignment, and they miss something on their alignment, which makes the execution horrible. We’ve got to stop that.”
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“CONCENTRATED POWER has always been the enemy of liberty.” This quote by former President Ronald Reagan reminds us of the dangers of abuse of power, as well as the threat one-party rule can be to the rights and liberties of the American people. Last week, unfortunately, we saw this danger become a reality. Last Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a “raid” on President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, allegedly on the grounds that they were looking for “presidential records or any possibly classified material.” However, the nature of this raid remains dubious at best and, in many ways, appears to be a startling and unprecedented example of the political weaponization of the FBI and the Biden administration’s Justice Department. Never in our country’s history has such action been taken against a former president, yet the American people are still in the dark about the details of and justification for this raid. The FBI nor the Department of Justice have offered a full explanation of what happened that day. And while some Washington Democrats have voiced their opposition to this raid, many continue to ignore this clear abuse of power. Our government exists to serve the American people and therefore has an obligation to be transparent and accountable to you and your family. The American people deserve an answer on what happened at Mar-a-Lago, and I call upon both the DOJ and FBI to fully explain their actions.While Washington Democrats have failed in their obligation to be transparent with you and your family, they have also failed to address the issues most important to you. Data shows inflation remained at a 40-year high in July, with prices for goods and services continuing to batter hardworking families nationwide. Gasoline is up 44%, groceries 13.1%, electricity 15.2% and transportation 9.2%. Despite this, last week the House Democrats passed their “Inflation Expansion Act,” a bill that would raise your taxes, throw more than $350 billion of your tax dollars at radical Green New Deal climate initiatives, and make the cost of items you need every day from the grocery store to the gas pump even moreThisexpensive.billwould also needlessly expand federal bureaucracy, including adding an additional 87,000 new IRS agents to come after you. This would nearly double the size of the IRS and would give the agency more personnel than all the troops stationed at Fort Bragg, America’s largest military base. You couldn’t even fit all the IRS agents in the Carolina Panthers’Insteadstadium!ofdoubling down on the reckless spending that helped start our economic crisis, Congress needs to be focusing on real solutions for you and your family. We should begin by stopping needless government spending, lowering taxes, and building an economic environment that encourages growth and shrinks costs. Furthermore, we must take steps to secure our border. Last week, the Biden administration announced the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy. This common-sense initiative required that immigrants attempting to enter our country wait in Mexico until their immigration court hearing. Since Biden took office, over 3.1 million migrants have attempted to enter our country illegally. Additionally, we have had 500,000 known “got-aways” at our southern border since October 2021. Ending “Remain in Mexico” will only make the ongoing Biden Border Crisis worse. Border security is vital to national security, and we must take real steps to secure our border. This includes keeping “Remain in Mexico” in place, as well as implementing other proven solutions, including maintaining Title 42 authority, giving Customs and Border Patrol the resources and support it needs, and finishing the wall. Whether it’s securing the border, growing our economy, or holding government agencies like the FBI accountable, I continue to fight for what matters to you most. You deserve answers and solutions, and I’m proud to be standing up for you.
December 12, 1963 ~ August 10, 2022
Mrs. Shannon Frank Fields of Red Springs was called home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, August 8, 2022, at the age of Shannon43. was born in Frankfurt, Germany on January 18, 1979. She attended schools in Germany as well as Ben Martin Elementary and Westover Jr. and Sr. High School. More recently, she received her Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Sandhills Community College. In 1998, she married John Wilhelm. In 2005, she gave birth to her baby girl, Isabella Marie while living in Germany. In September 2012, Shannon met the love of her life, David Alan Fields, of Red Springs, NorthShannonCarolina.was a shining star to her family, friends, and all that knew her. She was a bright, warm, compassionate, and loving soul. She loved her family, friends, and her children. She will be missed by Shannonmany.waspreceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Jean and Joseph Giordonello. As well as her paternal grandparents, Stella and George Frank. She is survived by her parents, George and Delores Frank of Fayetteville, North Carolina. As well as Rose and Dennis Johnson of Roseboro, North Carolina. Her daughter, Isabella of Graniteville, South Carolina. Her fiancé, David Alan Fields, as well as her stepchildren, Robert and Gracie Caulder, of the home in Red Springs, Christopher Fields, Katana Locklear, and her husband, Spencer, of Lumberton, and Cheyann Locklear Fields of RedShannon’sSprings. sister, Alexis Holt, and family of Fayetteville North Carolina. Her brothers, Thomas Frank, and his wife Coreena of Sparks, Nevada, Christopher Batton and wife Kelly of Richmond, VA. Her uncles, James (godfather) and Mark Giordonello. Cousins, Avery and Thomas Giordonello. Patricia Dennis (godmother) and husband Gary. Wade Wilson Jr. August 24, 1940 ~ August 3, 2022 Mr. Wade Wilson Jr. age, 81 transitioned from earth to glory on August 3, 2022. A celebration to honor his life will be held on Saturday, August 13; 2:30 PM at St. James AME Zion Church in Red Springs, North Carolina.
October 15, 1965 ~ August 12, 2022 Christopher “Zane” Stanley of Hope Mills passed away with his family by his side after a brief illness on Friday, August 12, 2022, at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center at the age of 56. Zane was born in Moore County on October 15, 1965, the eldest child of Mary and Joe Stanley. He was preceded in death by his father, Joe Stanley. Zane graduated from Hoke County High school, class of 1983, and attended East Carolina University. He was an outstanding trumpet player for the Hoke County Marching Band and East Carolina University Marching Pirates. He is survived by his wife Sharon Stanley of Hope Mills, NC, his two daughters, Erin and Lauren Stanley, of the home, his mother Mary Stanley of Little River, SC, his sister, Daphne Gordon, and her husband Eric of Belmont, NC, several nieces, nephews, and his lifelong friends, who were his “Band of Brothers”. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl, Memphis, TN 38105, or the Hoke County Animal Shelter, 353 CC, 353 Steele Rd, Raeford, NC 28376
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Brenda Melvin August 5, 1960 ~ August 9, 2022 Ms. Brenda Melvin age, 62 transitioned from earth to glory on August 9, 2022. She is survived by her children: Tonkia Ray, Antonio Ray, Kevin Graham; Siblings: Mary Russell, Dianna Washington, Barbara Lewis, Phillip Ray, Leonard Ray Jr. along with a host of other family and friends. Brenda will be greatly missed.
MadeleineChristianR 1978 ~ 2022 Ms. Madeleine R. Christian of Raeford went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, August 12, 2022, at First Health Moore Regional Hospital at the age of 44, as she held her father’s hand.Madeleine “Mandy” was born in Moore County on April 21, 1978. Mandy attended school in Moore and Hoke Counties where she touched many students and staff. She will be remembered by them all. Mandy influenced many people with her warm smile and beautiful blue eyes, which she could talk to you with. Mandy enjoyed traveling throughout Germany, as well as the East Coast. She enjoyed nothing more than a cheeseburger and french fries with a Coke. Mandy’s extended family, Ms. Katina Smith was Mandy or “Mandy Bean” as she called her, was Mandy’s “Partner-in-Crime” for many years. They would go out for hours shipping and other things.Mandy’s favorite holidays were Halloween and Christmas. She loved just being on the pontoon boat with her hair blowing in the wind.She is survived by her parents, Harold and Gale Christian of Raeford, NC and three brothers, Shawn Christian of GA, and John and Michael Watson of Raeford, her aunt Gail Coleman, great aunts: Carol Christian, Faye Browning, and Gert Carroll and her caregiver Katina Smith of Fayetteville.
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Mr. Joseph P Carey of Raeford passed away on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at his home. Joseph was born in Indiana on December 12, 1963, to the late William Donald Carey and Vionia Mae Pugh Dorsett. He was preceded in death by his sister, Donna Mae Carey, and his brother-in-law Gary Cummings. He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Lorraine Helen Carey of Raeford, NC, a stepdaughter Cynthia Plesner and her husband Carl of Wildwood FL., two brothers Jimmie Lee Carey and his wife Lynn of Spencer, IN, and Col. John Carey and his wife Leah of Palm Beach Gardens, FL., a sister Laura Cummings of Spencer, IN., several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Timmy Campbell departed this life on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
January 18, 1979 ~ August 8, 2022
March 31, 1963 ~ August 11, 2022
