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Folwell: N.C. has received $2 billion in CARES Act funding Raleigh North Carolina received $2 billion in funds from the federal government as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act according to North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the Financial Operations Division of the Department of State Treasurer. The CARES Act contains $150 billion for the Coronavirus Relief Fund which includes direct payments to eligible local governments, states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. According to a press release by Folwell’s office, the $2 billion is the first disbursement from the federal government of close to $4 billion the state expects to receive. “As keepers of the public purse, we’re responsible for receiving money and putting it in interest bearing accounts,” said Folwell. “We’ll process the withdrawal when directed by the legislative and executive branches.” A.P. DILLON

Rampage leaves 18 dead in Canada’s worst mass shooting Toronto Police fanned out across more than a dozen crime scenes after a rampage by a gunman disguised as a police officer left at least 18 dead and homes in smoldering ruins in rural communities across Nova Scotia — the deadliest mass shooting in Canada’s history. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked the media to avoid mentioning the name of the assailant or showing his picture. “Do not give this person the gift of infamy,” he said. Authorities said the gunman wore a police uniform and made his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tillis leads Cunningham in Senate race fundraising Raleigh Republican Thom Tillis currently has the cash advantage in the closely watched U.S. Senate race, with $6.5 million compared to $3 million on hand for Cunningham. Cunningham’s campaign collected $3 million from midFebruary through the end of March, compared to almost $1.4 million raised by Tillis’ campaign, according to federal reports due last week. Cunningham also spent more than Tillis — spending well over $1.4 million in his heated primary with Democrat Erica Smith. NSJ STAFF

Wrightsville Beach opens to visitors, but with restrictions Wrightsville Beach Wrightsville Beach town manager Tim Owens said the town has opened beach access to the public, with a set of restrictions. According to the town, all access points and beaches will be opened for what’s described as individual, non-stationary exercise activities such as walking, jogging, swimming, and surfing and water sports. People participating in those activities must maintain strict social distancing rules. Also, the town said any exercise groups can’t have more than 10 people. Elsewhere, beaches have been opened to residents and property owners in Carteret County, but are still restricted to tourists. Surf City officials took down barriers to public beach access last Friday, although pubic parking and other facilities remain closed. The accesses had been closed since March 20. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Tuesday’s ReOpen NC protest, hundreds gathered to make their case that North Carolina needs to open back up and voice their frustration at Gov. Roy Cooper. Over 20 states have set targets for ‘reopening’ but Cooper has yet to announce if the stay-at-home order will be extended past April 30.

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State employees still working, want hazard protections By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — Much of North Carolina’s workforce is either out of work or working from home, but the state’s public sector workers are largely continuing their jobs as before. Jobs that can be are now being done remotely, but others do not have that option. “You have a huge, the biggest chunk of the state workforce, that cannot work from home. That would be folks working in the prisons and community corrections and the institutions of the health and human services, that’s the biggest chunk of state government right there,” Ardis Watkins, executive director of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, an advocacy group for the state’s public workers, told NSJ. These are the workers she is most concerned about. Watkins is asking that the legislature and Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration do everything they can to move as many of these jobs to remote work environments as they can. And for the ones they cannot, SEANC is asking for hazard pay. “The people for whom we’re asking hazard pay are those who are mandatory employees but cannot perform the functions of their job while observing social distancing,” Watkins said. “So it would force the state to be serious and realistic about who is mandatory and if they’re able to observe social distancing while carrying out their duties. And if there’s something that can be done remotely, there’s no reason not to do that. It’s in the interest of the public and the employees’ safety.” DMV workers are one group who Watkins believes can do their work remotely, and she says the legislature has shown a willingness to move in that direction. But correctional workers are a group of particular concern because the disease has been spreading in N.C. prisons, and many have already tested positive. There are 13 correctional officers who tested positively so far, but Watkins believes this is just a small number of the total. There are still many tests outstanding and the only testing that has been done was at Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro.

“There’s no question in my mind,” Watkins said on whether she thinks the number of infected correctional officers is much larger than those 13 reported. “You can’t have inmates who are ill and work in close quarters in that kind of institution and not have some sick staff members. That’s why we’re saying all of the staff members need to be tested now, so we know what we’re dealing with.” She also said the prisons need to stop transferring prisoners and staff between the facilities so much while this pandemic is ongoing. For example, many officers from Johnston Correctional Institution were moved to Neuse recently. This may make it difficult to identify and address outbreaks in the prison system. “The goal would be to keep the staff and inmates of each prison where they are,” she said. While safety for public employees can improve, according to Watkins, it does seem that virtually all state workers are continuing to receive their paychecks. Watkins said she thinks “everybody is probably still getting paid” and that it is “unfortunate and petty” that some question why all the state’s public sector workers are still employed when so many private sector workers have had their pay, hours or jobs cut. “I would also question, to anyone who said that, would they prefer more North Carolinians be out of work so our economy could suffer a great blow? And finally, I understand the frustration of people who are not deemed essential and are therefore laid off right now, I have tremendous sympathy and empathy for them, but the same people who don’t think state employees are essential one minute would be livid if they weren’t available to them the next.” “Other than hazard pay for those limited number of individuals, we’re not rolling in there asking for anything,” Watkins said of SEANC’s legislative priorities during the upcoming short session. “We’re very keenly aware of the responsibility of public employees to be there for the rest of the public during all times, but particularly during difficult times. So we’re just there to help any way we can.”

ReOpenNC to Gov. Cooper: Stop moving the goalposts By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Hundreds of protesters who want the state to get back to work on May 1 flocked to Raleigh for the second week in a row. Crowd estimates in the early part of the protest hovered between 150 to 200, but by noon the crowd had grown significantly in size. The parking lot which was the staging area was completely full, forcing latecomers to find parking on the street amongst the throng of police vehicles. Citizens from as far as Boone and Charlotte traveled to Raleigh to participate in the ReOpenNC protest. Bullhorns blared and car horns honked continuously from around 10:30 a.m. until after 1

p.m. Karen Sergent-Rakers came from Snow Hill in Greene County, over an hour away. She’s one of many in attendance who owns a small business shuttered due to the stay-at-home order and essential business restrictions. Sergent-Rakers owns a custom sign company and her stenciled and framed protest sign is ornate compared to the sea of poster board and marker creations around her. She is one of many small business owners who are not eligible for unemployment or the small business loans from the federal government. Like many others at the protest, Sergent-Rakers says she has “fallen through the cracks.” A mothSee REOPENNC page A2

Trump vows to ‘suspend immigration’ to US because of virus By Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” Trump tweeted late Monday. He offered no details about which immigration programs might be affected by the order. Much of the immigration system has already ground to a halt because of the pandemic. Almost all visa processing by the State Department has been suspended for weeks. Travel to the U.S. has been restricted from much of the globe, including China, Europe, Mexico and Canada. And Trump has used the virus to effectively end asylum at U.S. borders, turning away even children who arrive by themselves — something Congress, the courts and international law hadn’t previously allowed. Criticism to his new announcement was swift, especially of the timing during the pandemic. Ali Noorani, president of the National Immigration Forum, noted that thousands of foreign-born health care workers are currently treating people with COVID-19 and working in critical sectors of the economy. Trump’s call “ignores the reality of our situation,” he said. “The fact is that immigrants are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. citizens on the front lines helping us get through this pandemic.” Andrea Flores of the American Civil Liberties Union said, “Unfortunately, President Trump seems

more interested in fanning anti-immigrant flames than in saving lives.” But Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors lower rates of immigration, said that eliminating millions of work permits and visas would “instantaneously create” new jobs for Americans and other legal workers. See IMMIGRATION page A2

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THE WORD: DOUBTING THOMAS THE ROAD TO EMMAUS John 20:27-29 (KJV) The Second Sunday Easter approaches, Luke 24: 30-31 (KJV) third Sunday of of Easter and Christiansand areour reminded of the first approaches, modern Then saith 30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and27 blessed it, he to Sunday followingtoChrist’s Jesus world continues endureresurrection. the Thomas, and brake, and gave to them. 31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him;Reach and hither had met with moston of people His disciples after Mary limitations placed thy finger, and behold my he vanished out of their sight. Magdalene them of His presence. hands; and reach hither in responsealerted to the coronavirus thy hand, and thrust it Thomas not with them when they met outbreak.was With our routines, into my side: and be not Jesus, and he said he would not believe in the traditions and rights in upheaval, faithless, but believing. resurrection untildisoriented. he had seenOne the wounds of we can become 28 And Thomas the crucifixion for himself. answered and said unto of the first appearances of Jesus him, My Lord and my Eight days the resurrection, following the after crucifixion came on Thomas God. 29 Jesus saith unto had his doubts removed when he saw the road to Emmaus when Jesus him, Thomas, because Jesus and Hisand wounds. met two ofexamined his disciples they While thou hast seen me, thou Jesus those who believed in His did notblessed recognize him. Disoriented hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, resurrection based on faith, He nonetheless by their sadness, Cleopas and and yet have believed. was willing to prove Himself to Thomas. another unnamed disciple walked Thomas hadwho proven a devoted with Christ, showed them and loyal disciple and Jesus didTestament not condemn him for the fulfillment of Old “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Caravaggio (c. 1601–1602, currently housed in Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam, Germany). his skepticism. prophecies through his crucifixion and resurrection. Only after they broke bread with Jesus did they recognize him. This literal walk TRAFFICour from page A1 with Jesus transportation sales tax revenue, shutting down certain business- causing major traffic backups. parallels own walk Florida announced that it is aces. But some states have not. which also is down. as he leads us to the word of God, Washington, site of the first celerating work schedules by sev“We were hoping to bid it out failed to produce results. opens ourmeantime, eyes and some reveals himself for construction very soon, but coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., eral weeks on about $2 billion In the road during our journey through life. bridge and roadFrance) projects. suspended work 92 of its housed 100 worth all that, so and bridge projects already have then COVID-19 “Christand at Emmaus” by Rembrandt (1648,oncurrently in theofLouvre, Paris, been put on hold. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has slashed its expected construction projects from 131 REOPENNC fromdown pageto A138 for the upcoming budget year, a $2 billion reduction. er of three with two toddlers in Ohio has delayed projects tow nearby agrees and saysuntil that next interstate “we’reyear are on the verge ofhighways collapse in and Cincinnati beoutColumbus here.” cause the expected decline in Theofprotesters did not remain fuel revenue. withtax their cars in the parking with Instead, a budgetthe shortfall, lotFaced this time. crowd Missouri has postponed $46where milflooding onto Jones Street lion 18 met roadbyand bridgepolice. projthey for were Raleigh ects priorities The that policehad hadbeen blocked entryfor to local governments. many as Fayetteville Street As with police 299 additional projects valued motorcycles. at While $785 million be at prorisk blockedcould by police, without federal help, McKenna testers chanted, “Cooper is not said. our king,” and “Lock him up!” Among the deEventually, the immediate crowd reversed ferments: a new highway interchange to provide direct access to the expanded Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains. The center’s hospital, physician and specialty clinics are among the area’s largest employers, serving about 40,000 patients in eight rural counties of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. The state had allotted more than $1.2 million to cover half the road construction costs. The other half was to come from local

that timeline is kind of in the air,” said West Plains administrator Tom Stehn, a former state highway engineer. “It was a high priority forand us.” proceeded to march course Though ambulances aredownrunaround several blocks of ning usual including and detours are town as Raleigh, in front well-marked forMansion. visitors, “obof the Executive viously that interchange During thedirect protest, ReOpenwould be nice,” Ashley said Daniel MarNC co-founder Smith adshall, chief for the dressed the clinical media inofficer attendance. South County “To Howell be crystal clearAmbulance — today’s District. event is NOT an act of civil disThe city but of Bend, obedience, rather,Oregon, it is an the exnation’s seventh-fastest growercise of our rights as granted by, ing over the and metropolitan protected by, area the Constitupast pulled a $190 miltion,”decade, Smith said. lionSmith transportation bond off the said that the ReOpenMay ballot. Supporters conNC Facebook group had had grown to cerns about members pushing aand property over 60,000 that if tax for roads, and thathike number didn’tsidewalks get the attenbike lanes while local businesstion of elected officials, including es are suffering financially and many residents are without work. “They’re going to show up on voters’ day and just glance and think, `I’m not raising my taxes right now, no way!’” said Mike Riley, co-chairman of the Go Bend 2020 Coalition that supported the measure. “We’re going to come back to voters, but now just felt like the wrong time.” Most states have classified road construction as essential work that can continue despite orders

active highway projects as a result of a stay-at-home order for most workers. The halted projects include major ones in Seattle and Spokane, as well as improveCooper, she doesn’t know what ments will. to an Interstate 90 pass through an avalanche-prone “Elected officials seem toarea be of the Mountains. the Cascade belief that this health cri$200 to million sisVermont’s gives thementire the power overroad planinalienable for 2020 ride construction our precious, is on hold, rights save for a $6 million God-given crafted by our emergency repair where and a storm great nation’s Founders bewashed part foundation stowed out upon us ofbythe our Creator,” on Interstate Smith said. 89. The longer the delay, theCooper great“Make no mistake Gov. er that someis proj— the the likelihood First Amendment first ects for amight reasonnot—get thefinished design this was year. no accident,” Smith said, adding “Every project sort of attorisk that everyone hasisthe right asof running out of quality weather semble peacefully, exercise free days toand complete the speech worship as work,” they seesaid fit. Jeremy Reed, construction “We also have the right toengifree neer for the state’s transportation agency. Pennsylvania originally halted all road construction work. But it has since allowed work to proceed on 61 critical projects. About 800 road and bridge projects, at $7 billion, remain on hold. By contrast, some states have taken advantage of a lull in traffic to speed up transportation projects. Construction crews have been able to shut down highway lanes during prime hours without

In Maryland, a westbound lane of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Annapolis recently re-opened to vehicles following repairs.— The proj-a commerce to $27 workmillion and earn ect wastocompleted well aheadand of living support ourselves schedule, partlysaid because of light our families,” Smith. “To traffic amid the rights coronavirus suppress those of thepancitdemic. izens of this great state is both a The declining traffic volumes dereliction of your duties and a have been especially some contradiction to thelarge very in oath of of the you nation’s most famously office swore to uphold as congovgested ernor.” metropolitan areas, such as Smith the Sanreiterated Francisco the Bay point area. of Business leaders ReOpenNC was to in getthe theregion state had hoped to put 1 cent salesthan tax opened back upa no later on the ballot that could May 1.November She said ReOpenNC’s goal raise billion overand 40 intelyears was to$100 do that “safely for publicbut transit and ligently” not on thetransportimeline tation projects a Smith nine-county the governor setin out. called region. the coronavirus outCooper’sBut timeline a “moving goal break interrupted work on state post” that needs to stop. legislation needed to place the measure on the ballot. It now could be 2022, or even 2024, before supporters can make another push for a public vote on the measure, said John Grubb, chief operating officer of the Bay Area Council, a business-backed policy advocacy group. “If we’re in a poor economy, which it looks like we’re going to be in, that would have been an awful lot of stimulus and an awful lot of job creation,” he said.

staying on their properties if they are not year-round residents. A similar situation to Surf City’s actions has arisen in Dare and Currituck counties, resulting in the filing of a federal lawsuit by six property owners whose permanent residences are in neighboring states. Law-enforcement checkpoints have been set up on roads leading into various towns and counties. The town of Beaufort has a WORSHIP from page A1 chokepoint near I-70 to repel non-residents. One needs a valid form of government-issued ID Benham and others showed up with a Carteret County address, to the Charlotte clinic after receiva COVID-19 Entry Pass issued ing calls that the police were there by the town or documents provdemanding that the group’s meming you are an essential worker bers leave the area. When they reor are performing an essential fused to leave, eight were given ciservice. tations of “violation of emergency Ocracoke is also requiring prohibitions and restrictions” — a documentation in order to gain Class 2 misdemeanor. entry to the town. “They’re saying there were 50 The public’s use of the Atlanpeople there,” Benham said on tic Ocean has been banned by the discrepancy between his acAtlantic Beach, Salter Path, Incount and the “official” account. dian Beach and Emerald Isle. In “Just look at the video. The video a joint press release, the towns shows clear evidence. It is a lie. It said “swimming, surfing, kitis wrong. The police department, ing,” and “non-motorized recreCharlotte Observer, the mayor’s ofational water access” are all profice — they’re all wrong.” hibited. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a Wrightsville Beach officials friend of Benham’s, tweeted out in already closed beaches to the support of him later the same day, public but will now also be fining calling the arrest unconstitutional ROBERT CLARK | NORTH STATE JOURNAL violators up to $500. If one inand saying, “Because elected Dems cludes court costs, the fine jumps are pro-abortion, they are abusing Attendees of Northwood Temple Church in Fayeteville’s 2020 Easter drive-in service listen in on to $650. their power—in a one-sided way— their radios from inside their cars as Pastor John Hedgepeth delivers his sermon. Officials in Wilkesboro and to silence pregnancy counselors.” North Wilkesboro announced on Cruz also put a petition on his site nion sets, with sealed wafers and April 8 that only one person per which asks signatories to “Tell crimination against religious in- ‘drive-in’ services.” The very next day, Wilming- cups of juice, but had to call off the family will be allowed entry into Democratic Governor Roy Cooper stitutions and religious believers,” any stores. Children can only acthat if abortion is ‘essential’ then said Barr in a statement. “Thus, ton police posted that drive-in ser- plan to distribute them after word ROBERT CLARK | NORTH STATE JOURNAL the city. company them if no other suitpregnancy services are essential, government may not impose spe- vices “will not be considered a vi- from “They said don’t do communion, olation,” so no legal action would cial restrictions on religious activiable person can watch them. too. Stop discriminating against A protester holds a sign at Tuesday’s ReOpen NC protest in Raleigh. Protesters marched around government buildings for several hours. ty that do not also apply to similar be taken against the churches, but and I’m a good man. I try to do Last week, Cooper issued a people of faith!” police still urged “all churches and what the mayor says,” Hedgepeth new executive order containing U.S. Attorney General Wil- nonreligious activity.” “Where a state has not acted houses of worship to continue with said. “We’re law-abiding. I want to multiple layers of new restricliam Barr has received a flood of tions on the few retail stores still complaints from religious people evenhandedly, it must have a com- virtual services, including for Eas- do things the way they said and let them know we’re cooperating with allowed or able to remain open. around the country who, like Ben- pelling reason to impose restric- ter.” In Fayetteville, drive-in ser- them.” on in places of worship and This new order begins 5 p.m. ham, believe their rights are being tions Trump, response to accuKevin Hassett, the former IMMIGRATION from at page A1 Benham, though, said he will vices were allowed, and Northmust ensure those restrictions April 13 and runs for 30 days. violated by local and stateadvisgovern- sations that hethat has failed to act White House economic wood Temple Pentecostal Holi- not be cooperating with Charare narrowly tailored to advance According to executive ments. in response to the virus, recently returned to help quickly In a statement, White order House er who ness Church had an Easter service lotte’s demands for his group to compellingpointed interest,” 131, five people per 1,000 tweet from to Barr’s tosaid his Barr. deresponse the commuvirus, hasitsfrequently pressonly secretary Kayleigh McE- guide Athe “Religious institutions square feet of retail space as or aimed 20% director, Kerri to limit travel tomust the not U.S.be at 10 a.m. Pastor John Hedgepeth stop counseling women outside saidnications here would be “carve outs”Kupec, for cision nany described the order told NSJ the church promoted the the abortion clinic, even after the singled outand for special burdens.” of fire marshal posted occupansaid, types “During sacredbut week China hard-hit Europeof this workers, hefor from at protecting both the “health and certain Drive-in church have celebration and was expecting po- arrest, since he believes the city’s cy limits can be in a store at one many Americans, AG mon- an countries, arguingservices that those cautioned, “We’ll have toBarr waitisand economic well-being of American been another touchpoint in North tentially hundreds of cars. The ser- requests violate the letter and spirtime. Markings must be placed govt regulation religious contributed to slowing see itoring what the final rule is of going to restrictions citizens as we face unprecedented 6 feet apart in areas where peospread of especially the virus induring the U.S.the vice could be heard on 92.7 FM to it of the law. be.”services. While social distancing theCarolina, times.” “Heck yeah we are, of course,” season. 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U.S. from China fering details Baptist plastic shields registers and it thatfrom DOJput nextinweek!” do. Church in Raleigh, had while congregants remained in- day they’re open, we’re there.” Trump place in Janu- could the order might at cover and when Benham said demand for aborto have drive-in service side their vehicles. contact-free checkouts. Last month, the aadministration ary. On Tuesday, Barr announced planned might be signed. “Other churches are not open. tion hasn’t slowed down, and his but wereended forcedasylum, to cancel, as reThe order travel overridesrestrictions any lothat histrying office had filed a statement effectively relying “We’re to do everything, Though They are going to have it by vid- group offers a social service that Carolina Journal. cal prohibitions thathave set adramatidiffersupport of a church Missis- onported a 1944by law aimed at preventing the in president’s trying to doineveryaround the globe Gov. 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North State Journal for Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Higher education institutions see $14 billion from CARES Act “Of the amount allocated to each institution under this formula, at least 50 percent must be reserved to provide students with emergency financial aid grants to help cover expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus.” Betsy DeVos

Over $182 million to be dispersed to NC colleges By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Colleges and Universities in North Carolina will be receiving federal funding for COVID-19 relief under the federal CARES Act. The CARES Act is the $2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by Congress in March in response to COVID-19. $14 billion of the CARES Act funds are for the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, and institutions of higher learning in North Carolina will be receiving over $182 million of that funding. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education issued a breakdown of the funding by school. The list includes more than 5,000 higher education institutions across the country, like trade schools, community colleges and four-year colleges and universities. Most schools will receive several million dollars, with a few schools in the Tarheel state garnering allocations over $10 million. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is near the top of the list with over $24.6 million. Private schools receiving funds include Duke University with over $6.7 million, Elon University with $2.9 million and Davidson College receiving over $1.2 million. At the low end of the scale, receiving only thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, were trade schools, technical colleges and various preparatory institutions. “The most significant portion of that funding allocation provides that $12.56 billion will be distributed to institutions using

a formula based on student enrollment,” said U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in an April 9 letter to higher education institutions. “Of the amount allocated to each institution under this formula, at least 50 percent must be reserved to provide students with emergency financial aid grants to help cover expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus,” DeVos wrote. “We are prioritizing this funding stream in order to get money in the hands of students in need as quickly as possible.” DeVos’ letter says that the CARES Act gives institutions “significant discretion” on how to award emergency assistance to students and lets each institution develop its own system and process for allocating the funds. The only statutory requirement for allocating the CARES Act education funds is that it must be used for expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus. This can include eligible expenses related to a student’s cost for food, housing, course materials, technology, health care and child care. Roughly 90% (over $12.56 billion) of the funds in the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund will be awarded to higher education institutions based on two formula factors. Seventy-five percent of the funds will be awarded based on the institution’s share of fulltime equivalent (FTE) enrollment of Pell Grant recipients who were not enrolled exclusively in distance education prior to the COVID-19 emergency. The remaining 25% of the funds will be awarded based on the share of FTE enrollment of students who were not Pell Grant recipients and who were not en-

rolled exclusively in distance education prior to the coronavirus emergency. Both of these percentages calculated “relative to the total fulltime equivalent enrollment of such students in all institutions of higher education.” The first factor primarily allocates funds based on undergraduate enrollment since Pell Grant eligibility is limited to undergraduates and students in postbaccalaureate teacher education programs. The second factor allocates funds based on undergraduate and graduate enrollment. Earlier in April, the bipartisan Education Working Group for the House Select Committee on COVID-19 met with higher education officials to ascertain financial needs and legislative policy fixes. Present at that meeting were Dr. Bill Roper, interim president of the University of North Carolina System; Dr. Peter Hans, president of the N.C. Community College System; and Dr. Hope Williams, president of N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities. The N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities requested a one-time support of around $36 million in nonrecurring funds, $10 million in non-recurring fund assistance for students whose families have been affected by COVID-19, as well as additional financial-aid related and grant requests totaling $25 million. The N.C. Community College System requested a onetime payment of $25 million and $41.5 million for the fiscal year 2020-21 to cover enrollment growth for instruction. UNC System has requested just over $29 million for education already delivered over the course of 2019.

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“The administration is seeking arms control that can deliver real security to the United States and its allies and partners and has not yet made a decision on whether and how extension of the New START Treaty will be an element of that effort,” said the report.

MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed arms control and other issues as Moscow has signaled readiness to include some of its latest nuclear weapons in the last remaining arms control pact between the two countries if Washington accepts the Kremlin’s offer to extend it. The State Department said the two top diplomats discussed the next steps in the bilateral strategic security dialogue. Pompeo emphasized that any future arms control talks must be based on U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for a trilateral arms control agreement that includes China along with the U.S. and Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to extend the New START arms control treaty, which expires in February 2021. The Trump administration has pushed for a new pact that would include China as a signatory. Moscow has described that goal as un-

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realistic given Beijing’s reluctance to discuss any deal that would reduce its much smaller nuclear arsenal. Separately, the State Department on Friday sent to Congress a report on Russian compliance with the treaty. The report said that although Moscow is abiding by its terms, the accord does not cover enough weapons systems and leaves China with a free hand. It added, however, that the administration has not yet made a decision on whether to renew the treaty. “Whether continuing implementation of New START remains in the national security interests of the United States depends on a policy judgment taking into account a number of factors,” the report said, listing several considerations including the impact that withdrawal would have on both the U.S. and Russian arsenals as well as the impact on American allies. “The administration is seeking arms control that can deliver real security to the United States

and its allies and partners and has not yet made a decision on whether and how extension of the New START Treaty will be an element of that effort,” said the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The treaty, which can be extended by another five years, envisages a comprehensive verification mechanism to check compliance, including on-site inspections of each side’s nuclear bases. New START is the only U.S.-Russia arms control pact still in effect after both Moscow and Washington withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty last year. Arms control advocates have warned that its demise could trigger a new arms race and upset strategic stability.

NC DOT budget shortfall leads to bid cuts of $2 billion By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — A budget shortfall for the North Carolina Department of Transportation has led the department to make cuts to future construction contracts by $2 billion. During a recent meeting, N.C. DOT officials said “Our latest that revenues have dropped estimate is this year. One reason being cited was a stiff drop in that we will gas tax revenues due to far have a budget fewer motorists being on the roads as a result of the shortfall of COVID-19 outbreak. at least $300 “Our latest estimate is million for the that we will have a budget shortfall of at least $300 rest of the million for the rest of the fiscal year fiscal year [which ends June 30], and the impact is fore- [which ends cast to be worse in fiscal June 30], and year 2020-21. The numbers are constantly changing, so the impact is they are not set in stone,” forecast to be the N.C. DOT told North worse in fiscal State Journal in response to year 2020-21. a records request. Construction companies The numbers across the state are now struggling for ways to fill are constantly the gap in their own reve- changing, so nue streams and are racing to compete for the remain- they are not set ing N.C. DOT projects. in stone.” “We are currently evaluating many steps within the N.C. DOT department to contend with the situation. One is a delay of major projects that were in our 12-month letting list [to be awarded thru the end of March 2021],” said the N.C. DOT in their response. The revenue drop means the N.C. DOT will need to slash the number of tentative construction projects for the next fiscal year to 38, down from 131. In scaling back that list, the N.C. DOT told North State Journal that they anticipate reducing the budget for those projects “from about $2.6 billion to $671 million” and that the project schedule “will have to undergo major changes.” The N.C. DOT indicated they did not have a specific list of the impacted projects at this time but that the department will provide a new list to the public soon. As of Friday, April 16, the N.C. DOT had an ending cash balance on hand of $323,976,870. That total is down $23,198,337 over the previous week’s ending balance. Issues with the N.C. DOT’s budget arose last October when it was announced the department had overspent its budget by $2 billion. Additionally, outside counsel conducting due diligence on Build NC Bonds revealed that $1.1 billion in N.C. DOT inter-fund loans had not been approved by the treasurer. The overspending resulted in the N.C. DOT nearly hitting its limit for cash reserves and almost running afoul of the state law requiring them to maintain a cash balance between $282 million and $1 billion. At the time, N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell called the overspending a “lack of managerial control” and called for the governor to remove Secretary Jim Trogdon, who has since left the position. Folwell also called for the Office of State Budget and Management to take over managing the N.C. DOT’s finances.

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Ex-doctor who killed father wants transfer to psych hospital Case of whooping cough Henderson County confirmed A former doctor from Fletcher who killed

his father County and dumped his mutilated body Caldwell in Virginia wantsintothe be transferred to a While everyone nation is concerned psychiatric hospital. Vince Gilmer, 57, has about coronavirus, authorities in Caldwell been serving a life sentence the Marion County confirmed a case ofatwhooping Correctional Treatment Center for theknown cough last month. The disease, also 2004 slaying. Gilmer’s lawyers sent theyoung, as pertussis, can be fatal to the very transfer because suffers very old,request or people with Gilmer compromised from Huntington’s disease and Marion will immune systems. A vaccine exists soon be unable to meet his medical needs. and is part of the common schedule of Gilmer said hefor killed his father in a rage vaccinations children. brought on by childhood sexual abuse and antidepressant withdrawal. The body hadWBTV rope burns around the neck and the fingers and thumbs were cut off.

Buncombe County Graham County An Avery’s Creek man whoofwas stunned To help control the spread COVID-19, by sheriff’s deputies later given a drug Graham County hasand set up checkpoints and overdose reversal died in a closed roads in themedication area. The Cherohala hospital. Buncombe County Skyway isThe completely closed, andSheriff’s several Office identified Matthew other routes intothe andman out as of the county Maienza, 41. Maienza struggled physically have checkpoints to limit traffic to local with two deputiesvehicles. who responded and commercial Travelers passing Wednesday a report a naked man through the to area shouldofexpect delays. in a driveway. Deputies used stun guns on Maienza, who tried to escape by bikeWLOS and on foot. While in custody, Maienza later became unresponsive. A deputy administered Narcan and performed CPR, Nursing board adjusts rules to but he died Thursday at a hospital.

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Zoo asks public’s help to name Wake County is now North baby rhino Carolina’s largest county Randolph County Wake County The North Carolina in Asheboro Wake County is nowZoo North Carolina’sis asking public helpCensus name aBureau baby largest the county, thetoU.S. female rhino, born Feb. 24 to mom Linda said on Thursday as its annual population and dad Stormy. The baby weighed 80 to estimates show the county containing 90 pounds at birth. An online poll asks Raleigh surpassing Mecklenburg County. people to rank suggested The census saidfour Wake County names: had an Rubybelle name of a rhino estimated (the 1,111,761 people as of rescued July 1, with after her mother was poached in South Mecklenburg close behind at 1,110,356. Africa), (after Etosha National The JulyEtosha 2018 estimates by the census Park had in Namibia), Jojo (one the keepers of Mecklenburg ahead ofof Wake by roughly rhino lasthad male northern white 2,500Sudan, people.the Wake last been North rhino at Olpopulation Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya), Carolina’s leader during the or Kendi (“loved one” in Swahili). 1890 census. Continued expansionVoting of the is open untilsector Aprilassociated 24. The winning name technology with Research will be announced May closing 4. Triangle Park has been the gap during the 21st century. AP AP

Pro-life group files suit over arrests outsideaccused clinic of Man arrested, coughing on fellow store Guilford County customer Pro-life advocates claim their

constitutional rights were violated after Gaston County they were arrested outside an abortion Police have arrested Robert Eugene clinic for violating a stay-at-home order. Heffner, 26, of Belmont, who is accused of Love Life filed a lawsuit in federal court coughing at customers at a Walmart store against the city of Greensboro and and saying he had COVID-19. Heffner Guilford County. Its members said they “purposely coughed at a customer” and said were praying and ministering outside he had coronavirus. Online jail records A Woman’s Choice clinic in Greensboro show that Heffner was charged with last month. Several members were misdemeanor counts of a public health arrested or cited for “travel(ing) for a nonviolation and failure to comply. It’s not essential function” during the coronavirus known if Heffner has the virus. pandemic. AP AP

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Theodore Adams, 61, was killed last Guilford County week when he was hit by a falling tree in A man was found dead in the driver’s seat Statesville. Adams was getting out of his of a tractor at a recycling site, but foul play car in the parking lot of his apartment is not suspected, police said. High Point complex earlier this month when high police said the facility manager saw the winds blew over a large tree. It hit Adams, truck arrive to pick up a load from the killing him, and also damaged three cars in loading dock on Tuesday, but when he the parking lot. Police are investigating the couldn’t make contact with the driver, he incident. checked inside the cab and found Jerry Wayne McCuller, 66, of Tupelo, Mississippi, WBTV dead in the cab. An autopsy has been ordered to determine cause of death, officials said.

Man arrested for sex crimes with AP minor Yadkin County Bryan Keith Wyatt, 58, of Jonesville, was Deputies seize County cocaine withOffice arrested by Yadkin Sheriff’s estimated street value of $3.5M deputies and has been charged with three counts of indecent liberties with a child. Durham County Police received a report about the sex The Durham County Sheriff’s Office seized offenses in mid-March and, after a monthcocaine worth an estimated $3.5 million long investigation, they arrested Jones from a storage locker and related searches. early last week. He’s being held under a The busts that netted 35 pounds of uncut $25,000 bond and is scheduled to make a cocaine were coordinated with the Craven court appearance the first week of June. County Sheriff’s office. A traffic stop by Craven County deputies led Durham AP County deputies using a search dog to a storage locker where they found most of the cocaine. In Craven County, deputies seized a smaller quantity of cocaine, firearms and $175,000 in cash. Two men were charged, including the arrest of one man in Greensboro described as a major trafficker. AP

SENATE LEADER Phil Berger (R-Eden) has advocated for random By A.P.testing Dillon to scientifically estimate sample North Statepeople Journal how many in the population at large have COVID-19 and the true fatality RALEIGH — antibody At an emergency rate. Berger says tests are meetingtoofestimate the North Carolina State had needed how many people Board of Education, a breakdown of had the virus. federal funds theleaders state will receive “Government are making revealed awithout numberthe ofbenefit the state’s public decisions of relevant charter schools would receive no money. and obtainable data. Unfortunately, they In know response the economic andis and don’t howtoprevalent the virus health-related arising from has been in the emergencies population. Therefore, we COVID-19, the U.S. Congress passed the do not have sufficient, reliable information Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Included in the CARES Act is $30.75 billion designated for grants which will aid K-12 and higher education systems in dealing with various impacts and financial ramifications of the COVID-19 outbreak. Board chairman Alan Duncan said that the financial needs of school districts NSJ stafflikely will be greater than the $389 million in CARES Act dollars that theU.S. state is poised to receive. Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-08) The draftnew presented themembers board had announced senior to staff large districts with multi-million dollar in his Washington, D.C. and North allotments. The draft document Carolina offices. Former district showed director Charlotte-Mecklenburg Billy Constangy has beenschools namedgetting chief between $32.9 and $36.1 million. Wake of staff. County Schools could receive “BillyPublic Constangy is an experienced between $24 topublic $26.4servant million.and and dedicated Meanwhile, a number charter I have come to rely on hisofadvice schools had a zero next to their“His name. and judgement,” said Hudson. “Some charter schools and maybe leadership will ensure our office acontinues lab school beon excluded tomay focus servingbecause the people they did not receive Title I funds of this district.” during the time period being used for Constangy has served Hudson’s the calculation,” said Alexis Schauss, district director since January 2017. the chief business officer of the School Business Division. Schauss also said that “legislation allocates the funds based on the proportion of Title 1 funding the public

to understand true hospitalization and fatality rates,” said Berger. “That necessary data is easily obtainable through random sample testing, which school unit received in theat most recent world-renowned scientists Harvard year.” The most recent in this case, and Stanford have beenyear, recommending means the 2018-19 school for some time. We owe it toyear. the hundreds It was noted by Schauss that charter of thousands of newly unemployed North schools sometimes don’t apply Carolinians to check the math.” for Title 1 funds because funding would be Berger added:the “If the true data too smallthe compared to the effort in supports most stringent measures, obtaining it, or that a school doesn’t then presenting that data to the publichave the ability orcompliance staff to properly manage will increase and confidence and use such funds. in government. We must immediately According to the documentation conduct random sample testing to know provided during the meeting, the the answer.” Department of Public Instruction must allocate no less than 90% of its total K-12 Emergency Relief Fund award as sub-awards to eligible units. Of the remaining 10% of the award, DPI may reserve up to half of 1% for administration. The remainder may be used for emergency needs to be determined by DPI for issues related to the virus response. Thetofunds canHudson’s be used for any activity Prior joining staff, “authorized by the Elementary and Constangy served as a senior staff Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA), theGov. member under former Republican Individuals Disabilities Pat McCrorywith from 2011-2016Education and as a Act (IDEA), themember Adult Education and campaign staff under former Family Literacy the Carl D. Perkins Rep. Sue MyrickAct, (NC-09). Constangy Career Technicaland Education Act of grew upand in Charlotte is a graduate of 2006, or Title VII, Subtitle B of the UNC-Chapel Hill. McKinney-Vento Assistance Deputy districtHomeless director Georgia Act.” Lozier will replace Constangy as district Items the funds be spent on director. Lozier hascan worked for North include COVID-19 preparedness, Carolina’s 8th District since 2009.buying Prior cleaning buying technology to servingsupplies, as deputy district director or resources make sure foracquiring Hudson, she workedtofor former all children are served, especially lowDemocratic Rep. Larry Kissell (NCincome and at-risk students. 08). She will continue to be based in The federal CARES Act money is useHudson’s Concord office. it-or-lose-it funding. DPI has one year from receipt of the funds to make all sub-awards, otherwise any remaining money will be reallocated to other states.

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Fort soldiers maketomasks CapeBragg Fear Valley Health to fight coronavirus furlough about 300 pandemic workers Cumberland Cumberland County County Soldiers of Valley 647th Quartermaster Company, Cape Fear Health will temporarily usually a parachute rigging at Fort furlough approximately 300unit employees Bragg, is now making masks. While to reduce spread of theface coronavirus. The rigging work continues, soldiers across health system has already temporarily the room areservices sewing cloth face masks to closed some and rescheduled fight the virus for personnel aroundand the nonessential surgeries, procedures sprawling Army base North testing, reducing E.R.invisits by Carolina. about Initially, goal was to produce 25% andthe inpatient stays by nearly600 34%. masks a week. currently Employees canThey’re use accrued paidmaking time 600 a day. North Carolina will State off. Nurses and assistants beUniversity offered donated 4,000 meters of unwoven temporary positions at the system’smaterial that’s being construct new personal hospitals at used their to normal pay rate. Fullprotective equipment. time employees will continue to receive health insurance benefits, with the healthAP system paying premium costs during the furlough.

Uncollected seashells litter beaches amid tourist ban

Carteret County in suspected Man charged The ban on tourists in the Outer Banks overdose deaths 3 has created large piles of of uncollected seashells during the coronavirus pandemic. Harnett County A video posted by the A Facebook man was charged with Monday distributing Cape Lookout National Seashore showed drugs to three people who were found multitudes of colorful shells spread out dead of suspected overdoses in a car. The across the beach as waves splash over Harnett County Sheriff’s Office charged them. While parkMcLean, facilities33, arewith closed due Gerrard Lasalle three to the virus outbreak, Cape Lookout felony counts of deathboth by distribution. and Cape and Hatteras national seashores in Deputies emergency responders the Outer open to residents. found the Banks bodies are of Brittany Shaw, 27, The shells remain uncollected sinceBass, visitors Laketa Vinston, 31, and Ervin 44,are the ones that tend to gather them during in a parked car behind a Bunnlevel home. the springtime. Preliminary findings in the investigation indicated the deaths were possible AP narcotics overdoses, the sheriff said. AP

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learning options that culminate with a test based on material taught up to the point schools were closed. Criteria for improving a failing The N.C. State Board of Education grade includes: participating in remote approved a recommendation by the learning through the enrolled local Department of Public Instruction to school or charter; enrolling in NC move to a pass/fail system for high Virtual Public School for all courses school seniors. This change will impact applicable; participating in credit roughly 100,000 high school seniors in recovery aligned to instructional topics the state. covered through March 13; or passing “Grading practices for transcript a final locally-developed assessment purposes will hold students harmless aligned to instructional topics covered for the impact of COVID-19,” reads through March 13. Final assessments the recommendations proposed by Dr. can be in a variety of formats, including David Stegall, deputy superintendent of but not limited to a portfolio, interview, innovation, and Sneha Shah-Coltrane, teacher-made test, project, and/or some DPI director of advanced learning and other performance-based measure. gifted education. The state board approved a temporary Seniors who were deemed to be suspension school districts to passing classes in the days leading up require more than the 22-credit to the closure of schools statewide minimum state requirement for will not receive the typical letter graduation. grade, but instead will have a DPI has indicated that note on their transcript of either additional guidance would be passing or failing. NSJ STAFF issued to schools about issuing Districts have been instructed grades to K-11 students if schools to give seniors that have an “F” Freshmen ataRaleigh Charter conduct science closed pastexperiments the May 15 in and received withdrawal code School in Raleighremain May of 2017. deadline. a chance to pass through remote

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Some sources suggest the don’t and when they hope to know wha today, or $60 billion, applied to repatriated American manufacturing China to “pay” for the damage they have caused the US. Don’t hold your our 231-year history. At least four in the 20th century alone can be debt plus trillions more in Federal Reserve back My first concern as we go along in all this, of course, is my family. muted I’m Stacey Matthews has also written under the real. pseudonym Siste ed to worldwide panic, economic collapse and — after all,cause trends can easily reverse — but Americans number has been overestimated, given that Kong classification for We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing investment to the U.S. would costworried the U.S.about Treasury $18 billion in China: breath waiting for a “Hong Chinese “Jubilee” to ahappen but ask your elected directly traced to 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 flu,” 1977 markets and financial outlets. If the U.S. dollarto them catching the virus, and I’m worried I will. 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This question is and when U.S. tax credits to companies whodon’t will source at least half of their meltdown in 1986. Some experts believe that ev nd keep pushing until they win or the important because it determines whether certain areas ought to theyThere hope to production back in the United States. is approximately $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissoluti be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a COLUMN REP. of RICHARD HUDSON billion| worth American direct investment plants and equipment in 1989. know what in they enous event happens such as the Chernobyl more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we in China. Chinese direct investment in the U.S. is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. don’t. experts believe that event, not the Star Wars ought to lock down further. comparison. Senators in Washington are already talking a irectly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union We’ve in seen case fatality rates — the number of deaths divided by An investment tax credit of 30% on half of U.S. investment China of China forgiving $1.2 trillion in debt we owe t number of identified COVID-19 cases — but both the numerator today, or $60 billion, applied to repatriated Americanthe manufacturing China to “pay” for the damage they have caused China’s Chernobyl. and the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many investment to the U.S. would cost the U.S. Treasury $18 billion in breath waiting for a Chinese “Jubilee” to happen n are already talking about the possibility people have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources suggest the tax revenue spread over a few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is representatives to hold China accountable in ta illion in debt we owe them as one way to get number has been overestimated, given classification “THIS IS THE DAY the lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad Inc. in Concordfor andcause New WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place stay-at-home fallen place.Marshall I understand theare seriousness ofthis thedisaster. virus Hydromer and the that need decimalordust compared to the $6into trillion+ Plan we now mage they have caused the US. Don’t hold your of death, particularly among elderly patients, can be variable. Some in it” (Psalm 118:24). Salisbury are switching their operation orders thanks to local or state governments, a majority of Americans to economy, take precautions, but I’m enemies uneasy with who simply undertaking to save our own not of defeated as inhow the people It is about timeask they are expected to operate ese “Jubilee” to happen but ask your elected sources the is dramatically underestimated, since this challenging time of social distancing, Inback Fayetteville, a minister began a pr are having to adjust to what is being called the “new questions about the data, and whensuggest things cannumber start getting past.normal.”I know that during the world like anyto other modern nation. hina accountable in tangible financial ways for many people are dying at home. working from home or losing a job, it may be difficult to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland Count Some of these orders extend at least through theChina end ofhas thisbeen month. arepirating treatedand in some circles with contempt. cheating,normal stealing, pillaging American Even importantly, weaccept have no clue how many Americans be glad” aspast the Bible tellsThey us tohave do. as However, as aasChristian, husband These stories from throughout our re Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. They’re treated though amore society simply must without business now for the 30 years. made no we secret that they e expected to operate as responsible citizens of actually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest that the number and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and supplies to peopl Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Royintend Cooper during question whatsuperpower the government tells us about tostated replace the U.S. as the premier in the world and when it’s safe to begin the modern nation. ofthe identified order of lowerofthan the be thankful and hopeful for,their even in midst ofcases this could globalbe an workers onmagnitude the front lines the corona a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just replace don’t know yet”to if as thethe process of returning backrenminbi. to normalcy. thehave dollar reserve currency with number of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. Lenten and pandemic. While people throughout our commu No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those when did state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. me, my faith is an important part ofstay-at-home my daily life and decision I am we have passed in Easter seasons If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked asFor to the questions. And the longer orders are in place allglad overinitiatives the ioning making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting sel justification for it. And the answers should notabe vague ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such as Michigan, provide nment Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people o must do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about message| of EDITORIAL STACEY MATTHEWS affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and work evels It will need to be explained in detailhope to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand that we will affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense an are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. me a once again enjoy God.” we can defeat the coronavirus and keep amount of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they | FRANK HILL hing? EDITORIAL sporting events, If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. are reliable. can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer COLUMN | REP. RICHARD s what EDITORIAL reflect on this message and be comforted, so that we may liveHUDSON out Until then, the Lenten and Easter se concerts, family To date, I’ve gone alongHILL with what the state has asked and then with details that give their statements believability. | FRANK COLUMN | BEN SHAPIRO COLUMN | example BEN SHAPIRO God’s and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy spor itizens mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, gatherings, this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services and many m the data. State Republican leaders have, too. services ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should also still continue church in a free confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary Unfortunately, when certain types ofand questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home sacrifices for the greate many more ty were In this same spirit, I continue to becavalier inspiredmanner by stories ofalso China humanity are over.of the sometimes a disturbing tendency among someafter people to treat thosevirus dissipates measures are understandable, they should have an expiration date. ONE THING IS CERTAIN; The in which lied about the origin after our ownthis COVID-19 osed neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating Easter, ao simply questioning thethe data andand asking when we can startChina getting back Thiseither is all shelter-in-place new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not anyworld way, WITH MOST STATES under or stay-at-home fallen into place. I understand the seriousness around globe in the United States, will pay for this virus, covered up its spread and tried to tellinthe there were only Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 temporary In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all MY they WIFE HAS BEEHIVE inorders the backyard. 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I understand the seriousness of the virus the need NE THING IS CERTAIN; after this COVID-19 virus dissipates The cavalier manner in which China lied about the origin of the predictable is exactly how they’ve been on the story of Tara Reade, a of our reporting, nor did any former Biden staff corroborate Reade’s orders thanks to local or state governments, a majority of Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask ISand THE DAY the the lord has made, let usthe rejoice and be glad Hydromer Inc. inlower Con THIS WEEK, according tothe members the federal government, That would that the fatality isthe actually far “THIS ISofTHE DAY the has made, let us rejoice and be glad Hydromer Inc. in Concord WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home fallen into place. 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It doe working from home or losing a job, may be difficult to “rejoice and seniors throughout Some of these orders extend at least the end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. dwide pandemics can trace their source to the United States over The crisis has cost the U.S. least $2.4 trillion in added Reade went public with her allegation March 25. But in contrast with But guess what? The “beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during question what the government tells us about when it’s safe to begin the Cumberla g31-year back tohistory. At least fourVirginia’s be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. However, as a Christian, husband These stories from thr have abided by recommendations and orders. They’ve left their jobs predict how many people will die in a second wave. This is be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. However, as a Christian, husband These stories from through stay-at-home orders go They’re treated as back though we must accept without inrecent the 20th century can be into debt plus trillions in Federalprocess Reserve liquidity touncomfortable” theas a society simply they covered thealone unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations previously said made themto was taken out. When ahow coronavirus press briefing thatJune. “we just don’t know more yet” ifagainst the ofbackup returning normalcy. and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and sup to stay at home; they’ve practiced social distancing; in many places, most important problem because experts maintain that th and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and supplie Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper question what the government tells about when it’s safe to begin the tly traced to China: flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977 markets and financial outlets. U.S.The dollar were notTimes’ the reserve then-Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh instated 2018, during It took If the pressed as to why, the executive editor Dean Baquet state’s stay-at-home orders willJudge extendBrett into May. No. government works for us,us and we have the right toactually ask those CNN published Since when1957 did “Asian cept without have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of global thiscampaign global workers on the serious front line they’ve donned masks. seasonal, which means we areworkers likely toonsee more sp have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this the front recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy. sian flu” and the 2002 SARS athe outbreak. There is evidence that the currency, we would not be able to fund any of these emergency New York Times 19 days to file their first report on the story. admitted it was removed because the Biden complained If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the lines of We need over 700 Lenten and questioning to begin the pandemic. While people througho The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. in the fall. And that means we will be faced with either ren Lenten and pandemic. While people throughout o state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. The government works for us, and thesuch right ask those ive 1918 “Spanish flu”did pandemic also had for its origins in report China. measures without ofNo. rampant inflation and currency The Washington Post’s came after thebe Times’. CNN’s came about it. and Here’s he said: Since when justification it. And the answers should not vague onesimmediate like “we fearcountry, thewhat stricter some of them getwe in have states, asto Michigan, For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision transparency I am glad initiatives we h According to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wide-s Easter seasons pieces on Brett For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have Easter seasons Ifofhe does decide to Post’s. extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer are in at place all over government ere is 100% agreement, outside China, thatofCOVID-19 depreciation. after the Washington “Even asitting lot of us, including me,orders had looked it before thethe must do this out an abundance of caution.” the morethough people, at stay-at-home home feeling isolated and/or anxious about questioning to ask those making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the testing and contact tracing, or with the realization that we making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supp and honesty justification for the answers should vague ones liketheir “weand country, and the stricter of them get in states, such asdemand Michigan, provide abecoverage, nated in at Wuhan Province from the completely China has pay for aberrant and decisions through Kavanaugh and probably All three ran wall-to-wall, non-stop real-time analyses, storyways went into the paper, Iproviding think that campaign thought that the provide a not all levels It will need toit. beAnd explained in detail to the people ofto this state who when they can get back tosome forthe their families, will government all over and the Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us ourtoLord “comforts us in all our helping small Trump administration, theand expected need for hospital beds atusobviously isolate those who are most vulnerable and letbusinesses everyone Corinthians 1:4, which reminds our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep must do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about gulated unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out a economic financial means. Diplomacy has not worked from our commentary on the allegations against Kavanaugh in 2018. Even their phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances message of are being told to remain jobless and at home answers. message offor an undetermined his accuser become a Michigan, affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach fam peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can we d affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families all by levels It Chinese will need towhy be explained in detail to the people ofinformation” this state when they can get back to providing for their be families, willthat’s demand arfare labatrun the communist army. to bring China into the civilized of 21st century health, hygiene straight news reporting was predicting done in real time as “new inLeaders which heat had been accused oflevels sexual misconduct. And not scientific experts amount of time models hundreds of thousands ofwho cases world the local and state should as forthcoming as they hope that we will hope that we will Dr. Christine bad thing? xious about affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on com ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling out tens of millions of tests over the n affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on common are being told toKavanaugh’s remain jobless home for an undetermined answers. til Chinabecome adopts rigorous verifiable policing and regulation ofand at and fair trade. regimes never take the surfaced about alleged behavior during hisTotalitarian college days.communist what sentence was intended say.” not vague answers, but answer a are reliable. can bethe with those answers — blame andtoagain, — we need to once again enjoy once again enjoy demand God.” we can defeat the corona August by nearly 12,000. months — and compelling people to take tests regularly, s Blasey Ford. God.” we can defeat the coronaviru amount of I’ve time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases Leaders atthat the local and state be asinstances forthcoming as Biden they That is what food safety health protocols, American business has notime other or express sincere and remorse, because that is not what The steady drumbeat at the was that we must “believe all What made it even worse waslevels there should were other where To date, what the state has asked andregret then with details give their statements believability. badand thing? know whatgone they along with sporting events, If youcelebrating are They celebrating the Easter season, I— urge you to also whole. Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers toadvantage the key virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic? Ca sporting events, If you are the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. are reliable. can be with those answers and again, not vague answers, but answer e than tofree build redundant plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. take of every weakness As ofcitizens this past manufacturing women.” had been accused of sexual misconduct. Multiple women, including mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, That is what ming as they reflect on this message and be comforted, so that we may live out know, what they Until then, the Lenten questions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans concerts, family reflect on this message and be comforted, so that we may live out Until then, the Lenten and concerts, family date, I’ve along what the too. state has and thenand keep ourselves, with details that their statements believability. ational security safety reasons as well asgone supply andwith delivery they find inKavanaugh adversaries pushing until they win or the Contrast their minute-by-minute coverage of theasked a former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Nevada, theTo data. State Republican leaders have, and ourgive communities safe. But we should alsoofstill continue weekend, the living inand a free , but concerns. answer God’s example comfort allall those in need around us during hope that we will ag First, the what is the true coronavirus fatality rate?and This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will onceonce again don’t and when free citizens mandated that we do, but along way I’ve also had questions about We should continue to do what we can to keep our families, gatherings, bility adversaries push back. allegations with the extraordinary amount of time they took to report stepped forward last year and accused Biden of inappropriate touching. gatherings, Unfortunately, when certain types of questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home number of society were this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church servic important because it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they ha this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services a the data. State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and ouras communities safe. But we should also still continue e most direct make China “pay” for this disaster is to offer That is, unless an to exogenous happens such the Chernobyl they hope to on the allegation against Biden. And not just the time it took report event The Washington Post’s coverage mirrored the Times’, with the date. church services livingway in atofree sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration church services milies, confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifice be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a Americans are not going to stay home for months on end, CNN reports confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifices for Unfortunately, when certain types ofand questions get asked, there is to ask questions thegoing data,Wars because while reasonable stay-at-home supposed tax credits to companies will source atthe least halfdata of their meltdown instart 1986. Some back experts believe that event, the Star on them, but sheer volume reports that were published/aired difference being the Post the “whataboutism” route by noting know what they questioning the andof asking when we can getting This is all new about tonot Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way,past many more society were whosimply and many more ll continue Inled this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories ofalso humanity are over. more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not do have so on the basisare of over. ever-evolving m In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should an expiration uction back in the United States. There is approximately $120 program of Reagan, directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union ondo, Reade and about Kavanaugh in contrast to the allegation against Biden. allegations against President Trump. to last I to normal are conspiracy theorists people who shape, or form. So while we should remain vigilant and stay safe, atdate. don’t.as though theyought after our ownor are after our own supposed tay-at-home neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebr to lock down further. especially as statistics roll in that look like the lower-end m neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating simply questioning the data and asking when we cansick. start gettingsenior back is time all new Americans, and it is not with normal. in any“new way, n worth checked. of American in plants and equipment inor1989. For example, according toget anthemselves analysis done by The Federalist’s Liberal Washington Post get columnist Ruth Marcus, who believed otherwise don’t care if they others theThis same weto shouldn’t comfortable thisNot so-called Biden stood direct at investment temporary iration date. InBrett Concord, high school senior named Tanner his own celebration pray we ia We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number ofaChernobyl. deaths divided by estimates in used terms ofvigilant death and the upper-end estimates temporary In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can to do,direct last Iinvestment to normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people who shape, or form. So while we should remain and stay safe, at and ina. Chinese in the U.S. is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s editor Mollie Hemingway, CNN published over 700 pieces on Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh so much that she wrote a book Since when did questioning government at all levels become a bad normal.” one. North State Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 any way, money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face shields for necessary safety guidelin the number of identified COVID-19 cases — but both the numerator of economic damage. We need transparency and honesty sacrifices are money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face shields for necessary safety guidelines af sacrifices are otherwise care if they get or others sick. the same we shouldn’t get comfortable this so-called “new parison. checked. Senators inwere Washington talking about theitpossibility Kavanaugh and his free accuser Dr.themselves Christine Ford. As of supposed this pastare already about them, summed up best by admittingwith what many of us have thing? Thatdon’t is what citizens living in aBlasey free society Not onetime little bit. yinvestment safe, at health care workers out of his own home. through this together. and the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many scientific experts — we need to know what they know, wha health care workers out of his own home. through this together. Since when didinvestment questioning at all and levels become a bad tax credit of 30% on of U.S. ingovernment China China forgiving $1.2 trillion debt weall owe them as one to getmedia and their “Believe All weekend, the number of CNN reports on of Reade Biden stood at one. in normal.” known along about theway national over.over. to do,half last I checked. “newbillion, applied to repatriated people have actually died of coronavirus. Some they sources suggest the don’t and when they hope was to know what they don’t. thing? That is what free citizens living in a free society were supposed Not one little bit. y,lled or $60 American manufacturing China to “pay” for the damage have caused the US. Don’t hold CNN’s story framing was predictable. Was it framed as a detailed Women” double standards: “#BelieveAllWomen a dumb hashtag My first concern as we go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m Stacey Matthews has also writtenyour under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah number has been overestimated, given that classification for cause We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing to follow their advic to do, last I checked. tment to the U.S. would costworried the U.S. Treasury billion inknow breath waiting a Chinese to but ask your elected examination ofthem the$18 facts as wethe them soI’m far? No. The story and is a dumber approach to inevitably complex, fact-bound situations.” about catching virus, and worried Ifor will. After “Jubilee” and ahappen regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. of death, particularly among elderly patients, can be variable. Some they need to start answering serious questions, or they wil My first concern asrevenue wehow go along in all of course, is to my family. I’maccountable Stacey Matthews has also the pseudonym Sister Toldjah evenue spread over a few years. $18 billion lost is(swine representatives hold China inwords, tangible financial waysunder for stands was framed inin terms of Democrats were “grappling” with the In other now thatwritten a Democrat accused, the media must suffering from the H1N1 virus flu)this, during the 2009 pandemic, sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all other Am worried them catching the virus, and I’m worried I will. 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But what also makes me lose sleep is how easily most everyone has actually have coronavirus. Some suggest that the number Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law way too memories ofAmerican a painful experience prefer scientists not to repeat. ina has been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging In themany New York Times coverage, Twitter usersI’dnoticed stealth edits of identified cases could be an order of magnitude lower than the host written of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief Butmade what also makes me lose is how This easilyparagraph most everyone has ness now for the past 30 years. 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Roy fear Cooper stated during question what the government massive 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic also had its origins inHere China. measures without immediate of rampant inflation and currency D-19 a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to no There is 100% agreement, outside of China, that COVID-19 depreciation. na’s state’s stay-at-home orders into May. No. The government works f originated in Wuhan Province probably from thedid completely Chinawill has extend to pay for their aberrant ways and decisions through Since when China is now scheming to and dominate the pork and be THE CORONAVIRUS has upended our world. it Incame nobyl. If he does decide to extend it, questions should asked as to the questions. And the longer stayunregulated and unsanitary wet markets. Some believe out of a economic financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked butindustry is only able to find work. 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Virus has been to highlight the growing U.S. December that they were a new ONE OF THE FIRST lessonsare in rife with the principal continued to mount. student loans anddealing making them subject AMERICA’S COLLEGES sell its goods That iswith what Toisdate, I’veUniversity gone along with what theexogenous state askedhappens andan then with details that give their stat The most direct wayprotection, to make disease, China “pay” forrecklessly this disaster to offer That is,pharmaceuticals unless an event such asThe the Chernobyl dependence on China for andhas and deadly infectious Beijing economics class is everything Purdue is already experimenting with to bankruptcy would certainly work. corruption. financial squeeze resulting Income Share in China — tax credits free citizens mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue U.S. to companies who will source at least half of their meltdown in 1986. Some experts believe that event, not the Star Wars active drug ingredients. From 2010 to 2018, U.S. suppressed of the nature origins of the has a cost. That’s inoffers stark opportunities contrast to ISAs under its “Back a Boiler” plan. The program is Private lenders news who put their ownand money on the line from COVID-19 for a to do Sponsored by Agreements imports of pharmaceuticals from China increased crossing a line would the data. State Republican leaders have, too. contagion. ourselves, and our communitie lessons in the political arena where production back in the United States. There is approximately $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union being funded by the Purdue Research Foundation, do due diligence beforeliving lendingintoa18-yearbit of remediation. Let’s first examine what free 75 percent. China is certain the second-largest result of this malfeasance should about free stuff. Incorruption, when types It’s of questions there to of ask questions about the data part of the university’s endowment. aexporter small ofget asked,politicians old customers. And the Chinese fearinvestment of students filing for and Unfortunately, mightisbe talk the root academic billion worth ofThe American direct in plants equipment in 1989. in business are contractual society were drugs to the United States behind Canada, and our be to getwould American companies to do something the our personalby lives, decision-making program now but is already showing positive results. bankruptcy ensure that loans are small and suggested the title of a recent study, sometimes a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, China. Chinese direct investment long in the U.S. is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’sisChernobyl. ethics in that agreements in real dependence is even greater, that China Trump administration has supposed wanted: return involves weighing costs against Purdue’s websitethe explains aand few ofgiven the benefits of can prudent. “Academic Grievance Studies and to theAmericans simply questioning data asking when we starttalking getting back This is all new comparison. Senators in Washington are already about the possibility the source of the active ingredients of many drugs manufacturing to the United States. Recent reports benefits. Businessmen make the same no legitimate ISAs: But such a solution is politically unpopular. Corruption of Scholarship.” The study was we sho which students to do, last I investment to normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or debt are people who shape, form. So while An investment tax creditcompanies ofreduce 30% on of U.S. in China of China forgiving $1.2Back trillion wecalculation owe themifas one way to get produced elsewhere. We rely on China 90% of in showconsiderably American arehalf leaving China at an they toor stay inanalysis The standard payment period for thefor It would the number of done by Areo, anwant opinion and competitor receive today, orstudents otherwise don’t care ifisthey or others sick. business. the same time we shouldn’t get antibiotics and almost allthemselves offor America’s penicillin, rate, spurred first by Trump’s war It’sUS. an entirely different story $60accelerating billion, applied tofor repatriated American China to get “pay” the damage Don’t hold your checked. a our Boiler-ISA Fund about 10 years, making it they have caused able to borrow college and wouldtrademanufacturing digitalthe magazine. By the way, Areo is short ibuprofen, and aspirin. Fully aware of its leverage, and hastened by China’s incessant lying, broken for politicians running the government would ever Since when did questioning government at all levels become a bad normal.” investment to the U.S. would cost the U.S. Treasury $18 billion in breath waiting for a Chinese “Jubilee” to happen but ask your elected education competitive with most Federal Plus and private loan disproportionately affect low-income students. It for Areopagitica, a speech delivered by notoriously threatened via its state-run promises and theft of intellectual property. The thing?China any benefit, however minuscule, ThatIn isaddition, whatrepresentatives free citizens living ina asix-month freemedia society were where supposed Not one little bit. spread over a few years.majoring $18 billion in lost revenue is to hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for terms. all students receive would also disfavor students in soft but John Milton in defense of free speech. consider. funding intax revenue to cut off our supply of drugs to plunge the U.S. into Chinese government’s latest actions should leave is often deemed to be worth any cost, to do, last I checked. grace period post-graduation before payments begin. trendy disciplines. Authors Helen Pluckrose, James A. decimal dustnocompared to the $6 trillion+ Marshall Plan we are disaster. “thenow mighty seathis of coronavirus.” doubt among American businesses that their however large. exchange for a Once a recipient makes successful payments for But there are solutions that can be implemented — Lindsay and Peter Boghossian say that My first concern as we go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m Stacey Matthews has also writ undertakingcontinued to save our own economy, notnot of be defeated enemies as in the It we is about time they as responsible citizens of Here in America must prioritize theare expected to operate presence in China will beneficial Related to decision-making is the the prescribed term of the contract, no additional even in this acrimonious political climate. something has gone drastically wrong predetermined worried about them catching the virus, and I’m worried I will. After and is a regular contributor to repatriation of the manufacturing essential tomodern our to them, their home country or their fellow U.S. past. world like any other nation. issue of being overly safe versus not payments are required even if they have paid less The first solution has been referred to as “skin in suffering in academia, especially within certain national and economic security. The Trump citizens. safe enough. Sometimes, being as safe from the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, China the hasgame.” been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American percent than the amounthas of funding they received. Such a policy would call for institutions fields within humanities. They call administration already begun to identify Forthe decades, the years. U.S. foreign-policy one can isthe worthless. A minor I’ve been trying to take extra precautions, because all of thisas brings upbe “grievance business now for past 30 They have made no secret that they Both ISAs and skin in the game policies would to have a share in the credit risk of every student these fields studies,” of postU.S. production shortfalls in defense, aerospace, establishment, academia and politicians in both example: How many of us before where wayworld too many of abenefits. painfulBoth experience I’d prefer not to repeat. intend towho replace U.S. astothe premier superpower and memories have many down-stream would put takesthe out aour loan attend the institution. In in the scholarship is not so much based upon automotives, telecommunications and other strategic parties bet prosperity on the idea that the driving our cars inspect the hydraulic graduationreplace the But what also makes me lose sleep is how easily most everyone hastruthforbut dollar as the reserve currency with their renminbi. pressure on universities to keep tuition low and practice, this means that universities would be on finding upon attending industries, while enhancing efforts to exclude Communist government in Beijing could be a brake system damage? We’d be to

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offset some of the artificial pressure on demand for the hook fortrade somepartner part of and student loan debtactor whenon social grievances. Grievance scholars Chinese investment in advanced technologies, reliable a responsible safer if we did, but most of us just higher education. They would intelligence also align universities’ students default. Such a policyAmerica would require action bully students, administrators and other such as microchips, artificial and the world stage. Corporate embraced assume everything is OK and get into biotechnology. We should manufacture at least 50% interests with those of students. Universities would bipartisan policies thatloans encouraged outsourcing our car and drive away. The National by Congress since student are disbursed by the departments into adhering to their America’s products herenot in the Perhaps U.S.government. manufacturing jobs to China in return for Highway Traffic Administration beofinvested in key student success, justU.S. increased federal worldview. TheSafety worldview they promote is the federal Some government shouldwould offer tax creditsbegin to potential access to the huge Chinese market, all the enrollment. estimates that 40,000 TORIAL | STACEYBut MATTHEWS universities probably another solution can be implemented locally. neither scientific norAmericans rigorous. Grievance multinationals whotowill bring at leastthey half choose of while enduring variousare bureaucratic barriers, lose theirconsist lives each year becausesuch of as toU.S offer better guidance students when A number of institutions already giving it a lax studies of disciplines their production back to America. This will be hard environmental regulations, subsidies to state-owned highway fatalities. Virtuallygender all those majors, choose classes and take out loans. try: Income Share Agreements (ISAs). ISAs are sociology, anthropology, studies, but we indeed accomplished in the enterprises, widespread currency manipulation lives could be saved with a and mandated These innovative solutions this will milestone do what “Free contractual agreements in which students receive queer studies, sexuality critical race energy arena, energy-independent in 2018 by China to boost exports, technology 5studies. mph speed limit. Fortunately, we College” cannot:becoming make students and universities education funding in their exchange for aforced predetermined after 75 years of dependence upon foreign oil. transfers to Chinese competitors and stateconsider costs and rightfully conclude behave more wisely and act together towards the percent of post-graduation income over a certain In 2017 and 2018, authors Pluckrose, The time has come for all nations to re-evaluate sponsored industrial espionage. that saving those 40,000 lives aren’t same goal. That goal is to create educated, wise number of years. The percent of income and number Lindsay and Boghossian started their relationship with China. the Atcan Charlotte andupon Foundry, we have longand and worth the costs and inconvenience of a to productive graduates. OnlyWith withCOVID-19, smart policies of years changePipe based a student’s major submitting bogus academic papers world may be finally waking up to the fact that we understood the dangerous and mercantilist nature 5-mph mandate. that incentivize student success can we ensure that income potential. academic journals in cultural, queer, of the Communist Chinese. All of our manufacturing cannot continue to maintain such a high level of With the costs and benefits in mind, colleges truly provide value for students, parents, ISAs are a good deal for students because they race, gender, fat and sexuality studies dependence on an outlaw world power. is domestic and we have battled unfairly-traded we might examine our government’s taxpayers and society. are less risky than loans. Imagine a student who to determine if they would pass peer This is our chance to restore vital domestic Chinese imports of cast iron soil pipe and fittings response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home fallen into place. I understand the seriousness of thing the be virus and the review for need publication. manufacturing, shift supply chains out of China and for decades, until finally winning an anti-dumping The first and toaccepted keep in mind about Acceptance of dubious research that orders thanks to local or state governments, a majority of Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask rebalance world trade. Doing so is no longer merely trade case a few years ago at the U.S. International any crisis, be it war, natural disasters journal editors found sympathetic to their are having toTrade adjust to what is being called the “new normal.” questions about the data, and when things can start getting back to an academic debate. It has become a matter of life Commission. A Chinese company even stole or pandemics, is we should keep intersectional or postmodern leftist vision death. our brand and logo toatsell its goods in China — of thisand markets open and private incentives Some of these orders extend least through the end month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. of the world would prove the problem of Frank Dowd IV, Chairman of Charlotte Pipewe andas a society crossing a line in business ethics that no legitimate strong. Markets solve problems stay-at-home orders go into June. They’re treated as though simply muststandards. accept without GUESTVirginia’s OPINION | JEFF TARTE, FORMER NC STATEFoundry SENATOR low academic Company, is a registered Independent. competitor would ever consider. because they provide the right Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper statedCharlotte during Pipe question what the government tells us about whento it’s safe to begin thepapers Several ofuse the fake research and Foundry is a 118-year old U.S. Other examples of where China has cheated to incentives resources effectively. a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy. were accepted for publication. The Fat manufacturer of cast iron and plastic pipe and win global market share include the steel industry, Federal, state and local governments state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those Studies journal published a hoax paper fittings, with seven plants around the country. textiles, furniture, rare earth elements, and recently, have ordered an unprecedented and e when did that argued the term bodybuilding 5G telecom infrastructure around the world. disastrous of much of the was If he does the decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are shutdown in place all over the tioning exclusionary and should replaced economy in anas effort tobe slow the justification for it. And the answers should not be vague ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them getU.S. in states, such Michigan, spread ofand/or the coronavirus. with “fat bodybuilding, a fat-inclusive rnment must do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated anxious as about There’s a strictly health-related politicized performance.” One reviewer levels It will need to be explained in detail to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, demand downside to thewill shutdown of reading this in place. Elderly persons with underlying conditions said, “I thoroughly enjoyed AS A FORMER state senator, I have been asked are beingmany told to remain at home the for stay-atan undetermined answers. the U.S. and economy ignored me a would be monitored by health teams for some time, article believe it hasbyanour important times what jobless I wouldand do regarding LETTER TO THE EDITOR | WILTON RUSSELL DUKE, JR. telemedicine leadership has beento argued by and this amount of timeorder why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases Leaders atvirtual the local and state levels should be asthat forthcoming as leveraging and hospitals. contribution to make thethey field home in North Carolina. The current SAH hing? epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski, are reliable. can be withsystem thoseleaders answers vague answers, but answer Led by our major health and— and again, not journal.” order expires on April 29. formerly head ofIsthe is what North Carolina I would “Our the Struggle MyDepartment Struggle: Solidarity Onegone state along senatorwith recently are has going to and the To date, I’ve whatsaid thewe state asked then withHospital details Association, that give their statements believability. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, andReply to haveabout a master planWe with primary a what we can Feminism as anfamilies, Intersectional need know whoway is sick, not,questions citizens mandated thattowe do,four but things: along the I’vewho alsoishad should all suppliers continueand to do to keep our Research Design at Rockefeller backup plan for manufacturers in N.C. to re-purpose Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” was who has been sick and who has not. I agree. Public the data. State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe. But University we shouldinalso still Yorkcontinue City.by Affilia, a in a free facilities to produce ventilators and PPE necessary accepted forNew publication health experts are coalescing around benchmarks to Unfortunately, when certain types of questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home Wittkowski argues that the lockdown to take care of our own demands. An ongoing needs feminist journal for social workers. The follow before rules ease: sustained reductions in new ty were prolongs the development of the a disturbing among some people to treatassessment those measures also have an expiration As long assometimes a would evaluateare the understandable, re-purposing of they shouldpaper consisted in part of adate. rewritten cases and deaths,tendency widespread testing, ample hospital “herd immunity,” which is our only osed simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, hotels, empty warehouses and university dorms passage from Mein Kampf. Two capacity and the ability to monitor new patients and business could weapon in “exterminating” the novelother , last I to normaltrace as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people who shape, or form. So while we should remain vigilant and stay safe, at including as emergency field hospitals in conjunction with hoax papers published, their contacts. coronavirus —were outside of a vaccine demonstrate deployment strategies for health care professionals. “Rape Culture and Queer These are reasonable data points that should serve otherwise don’t care if they get themselves or others sick. the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-called “new that’s going to optimistically Performativity take 18 the manipulation and intimidation of blacks. The ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO, after many years of ked. Virtual and direct care options at Urban Dog Parks.” This paper’s subject as astrongly foundation makegovernment decisions to keep everyone the ability toSince when did questioning at all levels a badhospitals normal.” months or more to produce. Democrats intend to not loseprimary this opportunity of the held to personal conflict between my naturalbecome would be made through every health was rape. But safe.is We arephilosophy not going back to coalition fullinnormal any time He dog-on-dog says we should focus onthe dog rape pandemic crisisavailable toNot further their goal of diminishing political and the politics of thewere supposed thing? That what free citizens living a free society one little bit. follow sound Today’s system. Ongoing testing would be implemented. paper eventually forced Boghossian, soon. We are not reopening everything tomorrow. We shielding the elderly and people our freedoms and obtaining more power through big Democratic Party, I became a Republican. During my to do, lastmust I checked. Covid-19 Rigorous statewide testing would be Pluckrose and Lindsay to prematurely out care our mostIvulnerable citizens, andin proposals with comorbidities while allowing government ourantibody lives. 30take years as aof Democrat, became relatively active My first concern as we go along all this, ofnow. course, is my implemented family. I’m over Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah once themselves. Wall Street Journal writer we must begin to reopen ourin businesses, the young andAhealthy to associate Just imagine theavailable. silent manipulation and sometimes local and statewide North Carolina politics. hygiene, they for pandemic worried about them catching the of virus, I’m—were worried After and a regular to RedState and Insurrection. In conjunction with other regional governors hadLegal figured out in what they were up doing. I amIn following a couple data models Fuller, with one another order to build intimidation ofis blacks and thecontributor elderly as these 1964, I was 17 years old. Myand parents to a I will.overt would be suffering voting reform Holmes from the H1N1 virusThe (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, and cooperation withbythe Whiteand House, I would Some papers accepted for“So, publication and thepolitically CDC. models N.C. cases immunities. Wittkowski says, it’s voters are pressured “friends” deacons and high degree engaged. Iproject had a very outspoken a fair of items in academic advocated peak between Aprilwho 20 and May us 5.because very importantjournals to keep the schools training fellow N.C. church members andallocation others to sign their such highto school inspired to believeall in the I’ve beento trying taketeacher extra precautions, of this ensure brings up receives are atoradical, allowed open to spread ballots. Imagine thestores pressure to get onwe the freedom and limited government bravely asabsentee ventilators from national to ensure menand likekids dogsmingling and punishing white male I concepts would doofthe following: I would not extend way too many memories of a painful experience I’ d prefer not to repeat. unashamed re-enter the the virus students to get herd immunity asslavery by busaddress with their marked ballots to There be hauled to the defended by past our Founders. can any peak scenario. would be a college for historical the SAH order April 29 without compelling But what also makes me lose sleep is how easily most everyone has and ominous fast as possible, the elderly voting booth. We all that this is the of Martin Luther King Jr‘s on Washington directive forknow rapid response to method enable the asking them toand sit then in silence on the floor in data showing its necessity. It March is imperative to keep took standing economy. people, who should be separated, and the Democratic Party to obtain a black block vote; yet, place on my 16th birthday. I loved my black friends and use of FDA-approved drugs that are experimental in chains during class and to be expected to Covid-19 hygiene measures in place: such as social attempt to the nursing should be closed we fail to becausevirus. we are intimidated by political held them in high regard. men worked, and some relation tospeak a pandemic learn fromhomes the discomfort. Other papers distancing, gathering limits,These masks, hand washing, ensure the during that time, canobesity come back correctness. As long as a business could demonstrate the ability celebrated morbid as aand healthy life etc. just comfortably “hung out,” at my father’s business. meet their children and grandchildren Purely and simply the “emergency powers” proposed They felt the welcoming spirit of my father. Many years black block to follow sound Covid-19 hygiene, they would be choice and advocated treating privately The dates to lift and reduce or continue on-going after about 4masturbation weeks when the hasof by the North Carolina of Elections, later, while running the office of Superior Court allowed to re-enter theBoard economy. I wouldcontrolled lean into conducted asvirus a form need to be for determined using scientific vote for the restrictions been exterminated.” by the Democratic Party, aresense a blatant attempt to and judge, Suspending I asked a black man and his wife to vote for me. exercising a little common on what works sexual violence against women. Typically, evidence. and, more concerning, Herd immunity, argues, use the present pandemic crisis to rob thebe individual He looked at me andconstitutional said: “My wife and I will Democrats is appropriate. Restrictions could lessened as academic journalWittkowski editors send submitted violation of individual rights aredefinitely what would stop a “second wave” headed for black voter of the privilege to vote secretly for the vote for you. Your father put me to riding when nobody the four benchmarks indicate it is safe to do so. papers out to referees for review. In exercises regardless of reason. through the dangerous the United States in the fall. Dr. David candidate of their choice. Under the Board’s radical else would.“ North Carolina needs to get back to work. recommending acceptance for publication, Our businesses are on life support. It is imperative manipulation L. Katz, president of True Health While actively engaged in the Democratic party over proposals, students and those who would treat others For the next 18 months, I would monitor data many reviewers gave these papers glowing to get them opened. 500,000 North Carolinians Initiative and the founding director of roughly will be employed to harvest and harness the the years, I was in the middle of the “party politics.” I and while reserving the right to return to stronger praise. haveran signed up for unemployment in the past three the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research vote of primarily blacks and the elderly. Purely and successfully for the offices of mayor of Farmville, restrictions if necessary. I would put in place a Political Zach vision. Goldberg ran Data indicate N.C. will have 50% of its small intimidation of weeks. Center, sharesscientist Wittkowski’s simply these “emergency powers” are an effort to grab District Court judge and Superior Court judge. The special teamof oflocal medical, dataDemocrats analytics and business certainingrievance studies concepts through businesses (revenue under $10M) qualifying for Writing The New York Times, the election and state and the black block vote was overwhelmingly Democratic. blacks. leaders to provide insights the Lexis/Nexis to see how often bankruptcy, if theyfor stay through May I he argued that ourdatabase, fight against Electoral College vote. Thisand is theadvice. plan ofThe Ericstandard Holder When running theclosed countywide offices of 15. judge, channels with DHHS and County Public Health they appeared in our press over would begin opening businesses in less impacted COVID-19 could be worse than thethe years. and William Barber and others to see that the folks “do I slowly became aware of the subtle and methodical Officials would continue. I would conduct who briefings He found counties today. and intimidation of black voters virus itself. huge increases in the usages right” and ensure the election of candidates are manipulation with stakeholder government, medical ofThe “white privilege,” “unconscious I employed would categorize N.C. citizens into fourpolitical groups: bottom line is that costs can bias,” the choices of Ericgroups Holderofand William Barber. by Democratic black and white andAll business leaders from the state, including “critical racebut theory” and “whiteness.” tested positive for Covid-19, hospitalized and in be concealed not eliminated. voters are entitled to across an individual secret ballot leaders. federal, county folks (elected All of thisifis beingonly taught criticalThe condition, immunocompromised and have Moreover, people lookto atcollege the in orderstate, that they mayand votemunicipal their own conscious Civil Rights Voting Act of 1964 had rightfully and I would share the collective and students, many of whomcourse become primary not removed tested positive, finally, healthy individuals benefits from a particular andnon-elected). convictions and vote for the candidate of their the legaland impediments imposed by state ofand action, they will do just about who then individual choice.from This these is a fundamental right all to prevent blacks from exercising varying opinions groups with theofpublic. secondary school teachers whogovernments have not tested positive. These groups needtheir anything, because citizens, both white and black.in Asthis a state and a nation, rightplans to voteon given them by we the will 15th care Amendment to We need hyper transparency matter. indoctrinate oureverything young people. tailored whotoand how for them. has Ia doubt benefit.whether Politicalthe hustlers we must be vigilant to protect citizen’s theneed United States Constitution. the enactment Politicians get ridiculed all the theindividual time, except when coronavirusWe parameters and rules Upon to protect the and demagogues love promising right to a secret ballot and to protect the integrity of the Voting Rights Act, the Democratic Party very we need them to make monumental decisions. So I caused financial crunch will give college vulnerable. The highest at-risk residents, those in benefits when theadministrators, costs can easily be of our elections. This is aalong paramount principle a do? quickly employed measures to harness the black each of you reading — What wouldofyou and university who are a nursing homes and prisons, would see tight rulesvote stay ask concealed. Bybetween the way, athe best time democratic republic. that had historically been Republican. crossbreed parrot and to jellyfish, be wrong in being wrongacademic Today’s proposals for pandemic voting reform the guts and andpersist backbone to restore isrespectability. when the costsFar of being wrongthey are get much Wilton Russell “Rusty” Duke, Jr. are a radical, unashamed and ominous attempt to too often, borne by others. Superior Court Judge (Ret.) ensure the black block vote for the Democrats through of their political support from campus The absolute worst part ofmembers the grievance people who are of the COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly faculty and diversity and multicultural its most unrecoverable damage, is administrative offices. the massive power that Americans The best hope lies with boards of have given to their federal, state and trustees, though to many serveour as yes-men local governments regulate for the university president. I think that a lives in the name of protecting our good start would topower find 1950s or 1960s health. Taking backbe that should catalogs. Look at the course offerings at be the most urgent component of LettersLetters addressed to the editor be sent or 3101 Industrial a time whenefforts. college knew how addressed to themay editor mayto beletters@nsjonline.com sent to letters@nsjonline.com or 3101Dr. Suite our recovery It’sgraduates going to be to read, write and compute,and andhis make 105. Raleigh, N.C.Dr. 27609. must beN.C. signed; include the writer’s number, city and state; challenging; once a politician, Industrial SuiteLetters 105. Raleigh, 27609. Letters must bephone signed; include the them today’sgains curricula. Another helpful bureaucracy, power, he will fight and be writer’s no longer than 300 words. Letters may be edited for style, length or clarity when necessary. phone number, city and state; and be no longer than 300 words. Letters tool would betotokeep giveit.careful consideration tooth and nail for op-eds be sent to necessary. opinion@nsjonline.com. may be editedIdeas for style, lengthshould or clarity when Ideas for op-eds should to eliminating all classes/majors/minors containing the word be sent to opinion@nsjonline.com. Walter E. Williams is a“studies,” professor such as ofwomen, economics at George Asian, blackMason or queer studies. University. I’d bet that by restoring the traditional academic mission to colleges, they would put a serious dent into the COVID-19 budget shortfall.

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Congressman Dan Bishop

RALEIGH — For the second week in a row, protesters who want the state to get back to work on May 1 convened in Raleigh. Several legislators were in attendance this time around, including Sen. Vickie Sawyer (R-Iredell) and Rep. Michael Speciale (R-Craven). Also seen at the protest was Rep. Jerry Carter (R-Rockingham). Sawyer said she came out to support the First Amendment rights of the people and to also hear directly from people attending these protests. “There are so many folks here who are just begging for North Carolina to have a plan to reopen,” said Sawyer. She went on to say she can understand why people are angry and said there has been a lot trouble getting “solid data” from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Speciale said he was happy to see the citizens standing up for their rights and that there “is no way in the world” that the stayat-home order needs to go beyond the end date set for the end of April. Speciale also said he didn’t believe K-12 schools

would be brought back into session to finish out the 2019-2020 school year. Congressman Dan Bishop (R-09), donning a mask, was also on hand. He said it was an “easy call” to show up to the ReOpenNC protest given the tweet last week by the Raleigh Police which read, “Protesting is not an essential activity.” “This group here today represents the majority of North Carolinians, and they are here to remind Roy Cooper and other officials that the Constitution isn’t suspended — it’s not under a stay-at-home order,” said Bishop. The congressman called out a lack of disclosure and transparency on the data by the Cooper administration. Bishop said that the shutdown just can’t keep continuing with no end or plan in sight. Bishop says the grassroots reopen movements that have sprung up around the country are “reasserting fundamental ideals.” He said the onus is on the governors to justify why they continue to keep their states under stay-at-home orders. “It’s really not up to government to classify us as essential or not essential people,” said Bishop. “We are all essential people.”

3/3: Gov. Cooper’s task force announces the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health is now able to test for COVID-19. Gov. Cooper announces first confirmed case; a Wake County person who had traveled to Washington and was "exposed at a long term care facility."

3/10: PRESS CONF: Gov. Cooper, DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen Gov. Cooper EO 116 – declared a state of emergency after five more cases tested presumptive positive

3/12: Gov. Cooper requests that events of 100 people or more be postponed or cancelled PRESS CONF: Gov. Cooper's COVID-19 taskforce

3/14: Gov. Cooper EO 117 - All schools ordered to close for 2 weeks, mass gathering of 100 people or more prohibited

3/16: Gov. Cooper requests small business disaster aid

3/19: Small Business Administration grants Gov. Cooper's request for disaster relief Gov. Cooper announces a person in Wilson County tested positive for COVID-19 and this is the first time a positive case of COVID-19 is due to community spread. DHHS confirms community spread

Gov. Cooper responds to Forest Gov. Cooper EO 118 – all of the state's bars and restaurants to suspend dine-in service, expands unemployment regs

MARCH

3/21: Gov. Cooper EO 119 - motor vehicle authorities, DHHS expand child care

3/23: Gov. Cooper EO 120 - school closure extended to May 15, additional businesses closed, mass gatherings of 50 or more banned

3/25: PRESS CONF: Gov. Cooper and DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen urged North Carolinians to stay at home if they can and maximize social distancing.

3/27: Gov. Cooper announced that parents who need food assistance for their children can text FOODNC to 877-877 to locate nearby free meal sites.

3/29: Gov. Cooper says first unemployment checks will go out "this week"

Gov. Cooper EO 121 – statewide stay at home orderMarch 30 through April 30, bans gatherings of 10 or more, called it "truly a matter of life or death."

NCDHHS.GOV/CORONAVIRUS Call 2-1-1 for assistance

Text COVID19NC to 898211 for updates

3/30: N.C. statewide stay at home order in effect 3/31: Gov. Cooper EO 124 – bars utilities from shutting off service, evictions during COVID lockdown

Gov. Cooper EO 122 – State surplus access to schools, towns

4/1: Gov. Cooper EO 125 - authorizes NC corporations to hold remote shareholder meetings 4/3: PRESS CONF: Gov. Cooper, NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen and NC Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry 4/9: EO 131 – Adds further restrictions and safety measures for retail stores and extensive risk mitigation measures for long-term care and nursing home facilities.

4/17: Gov. Cooper and DHHS Sec. Mandy Cohen announce creation of a “surge workgroup.”

APRIL

Protect your family, protect your neighbors, protect your community.

Gov. Cooper writes to Pres. Trump about food funding, healthcare and availability

Gov. Cooper requests Major Disaster declaration

U.S. Congressman Dan Bishop (R-NC-09) joins ReOpenNC protesters April 21, 2020, outside North Carolina’s Executive Mansion to oppose Gov. Roy Cooper’s restrictions during the COVID-19 outbreak.

We all need to do our part to slow the spread of COVID-19. Stay home as much as possible, especially if you’re sick with mild illness.

3/20: Gov. Cooper shares Federal Funding Priorities with North Carolina congressional delegation

3/24: Gov. Cooper directs funding to schools to teach and feed students during COVID-19.

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SAVE LIVES

2/26: Gov. Cooper’s COVID-19 taskforce advises people & communities prepare

3/6: PRESS CONF: Gov. Cooper, DHHS Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen, State Health Director Dr. Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson and Chatham Public Health Department Director Layton Long

3/17: Lt. Gov. Forest challenges Gov. Cooper closing restaurants without council of state concurrance

STAY HOME,

1/25: NCDHHS says the possible case is negative.

2/11: Gov. Cooper announces formation of COVID-19 Taskforce

FEB

“This group here today represents the majority of North Carolinians, and they are here to remind Roy Cooper and other officials that the Constitution isn’t suspended — it’s not under a stay-athome order”

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal

1/24: NCDHHS announces it is investigating a possible case of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The individual had recently traveled to China and passed through Wuhan City, where the outbreak originated, but had not visited the market linked to many early cases. This person arrived at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Jan. 23.

JAN

Lawmakers attend ReOpenNC Protest

COVID-19 IN NC

4/6: Gov. Cooper Press Release: Team of scientists from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC, Duke University, NoviSci, RTI International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publish a predictive model at the request of Secretary Cohen. The model says up to 250,000 North Carolinians could be infected even with social distancing measures 4/16: The three 'Ts' to open back up

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020

SPORTS

100 in 100 visits 5 new counties, B3

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UNC offensive lineman Charlie Heck is a projected mid-round pick in this week’s NFL Draft, which will be held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT

Awkward NFL Draft process to conclude for NC hopefuls

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Tar Heels freshman guard Anthony entering NBA Draft Chapel Hill UNC freshman point guard Cole Anthony announced last Friday he is entering the NBA Draft. He had been considered a likely one-anddone player and a high firstround draft prospect before his arrival in Chapel Hill, though he had said last month he was delaying any draft announcements while looking to find ways to help amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 6-foot-3 Anthony — son of former UNLV and NBA player Greg Anthony — averaged a team-high 18.5 points but missed 11 games due to knee surgery. The Tar Heels (14-19) suffered the first losing season of coach Roy Williams’ career.

AUTO RACING

GOP senators ask Cooper to allow racing at Charlotte Raleigh Five Republican state senators are asking Gov. Roy Cooper to allow NASCAR races — without fans — next month at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In a normal year, NASCAR would run the Coca-Cola 600 over Memorial Day weekend. NASCAR said Friday it hopes to resume racing at some point in May without fans in the stands. On Sunday, senators Kathy Harrington (R-Gaston), Paul Newton (R-Cabarrus), Todd Johnson (R-Union), Vickie Sawyer (R-Iredell) and Carl Ford (R-Rowan) said allowing a race at Charlotte would require the governor to amend his executive order. Cooper spokesman Ford Porter said Sunday that “Governor Cooper knows the importance of NASCAR to our state and he’s already been talking with track and team owners about how we could potentially restart racing. It’s too soon to predict specific decisions about future sporting events but any plan would prioritize public health and safety and preventing spread of the virus.”

The Carolina Panthers hold eight selections, including the seventh overall pick By Brett Friedlander North State Journal

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UNC Wilmington is rightfully nicknamed the Seahawks, but its origins honor landlocked Iowa.

Mid-majors find different inspirations for school names High Point, N.C. Central and NC A&T have common nicknames, while Elon, UNCG and UNCW tapped into history and mythology By Shawn Krest North State Journal WE’VE LOOKED AT Blue Devils, Demon Deacons, Fighting Camels and plenty of Bulldogs. We’ve seen a mascot almost kill a member of the opposing band and another mascot that liked to sleep in busy hallways on campus. We conclude our trip through North Carolina to trace the origins of the nicknames for each of the state’s Division I college teams with a half-dozen schools across the east and Piedmont regions. Elon Phoenix Sportswriters have fallen in stature in recent years. While there’s nothing wrong with writing sto-

ries about the origins of team nicknames, a century ago, the sportswriters were the ones coming up with the nicknames. We’ve already had a few teams whose nicknames derive from exuberant writers covering a big game — including the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and the Davidson Wildcats. The roots of Elon’s nickname also can be traced back to a writer’s pen. In 1921, when Elon beat cross-town rival Guilford — whose sports teams went by the nickname Quakers — a sportswriter contrasted the two teams by referring to Elon as the Fightin’ Christians. That name stuck for nearly 80 years. Over that time, Elon upgraded its level of competition from NAIA to Division II before finally beginning its transition to Division I play in the late 1990s. At the time, school officials thought that, perhaps, the school needed a See MID-MAJORS, page B4

CHARLIE HECK, LIKE most college football stars with NFL aspirations, is approaching this week’s draft with equal parts excitement and anticipation. But because of his bloodlines, the former North Carolina offensive tackle has a better understanding of the process than most. Heck’s father, Andy, is a former first-round draft pick who is currently the offensive line coach of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. “I really have gotten a much greater appreciation as I’ve continued to play football and gotten older,” said Heck, a second-team All-ACC selection for the Tar Heels last season. “When I was really young, I was like, ‘Yeah, my dad played in the NFL.’ “But then as I got older to realize he was a first-round pick, played for 12 years in the NFL. That’s almost unheard of for an offensive lineman to land 12 years in the NFL. So it’s really cool to kind of see that and hear that from him and hoping that I can follow in his footsteps. Big shoes to fill, but it’s been a dream of mine to hopefully one day be able to do that.” Heck is projected as a midround pick in this year’s draft, which begins with the opening round Thursday night and continues through Saturday. He is one of several players with ties to state colleges that are expecting to hear their names called — online rather than in person because of the coronavirus pandemic — by an NFL team. Among the others are Heck’s UNC teammate, defensive end Jason Strowbridge; NC State defensive linemen Larrell Murchison and James Smith-Williams; Wake Forest offensive tackle Justin Herron, linebacker Justin Strnad and cornerback Essang Bassey; Charlotte defensive end Alex Highsmith and running back Benny LeMay; Appalachian State’s Darrynton Evans; and Lenoir-Rhyne safety Kyle Dugger. While there are no marquee

“Life throws curveballs. ... But you’ve just got to take it and run with whatever opportunity you got.” Jason Strowbridge, UNC defensive end

names or first-rounders among the group, as there have been in the past with the likes of State’s Bradley Chubb or UNC’s Mitch Trubisky, draft position is only the first step in what each of the players hopes will be a long pro football journey. As the Wolfpack’s Smith-Williams points out, you still have to prove yourself once you’re on a team — regardless of what round you went in. “I’m excited just to go whenever,” the former Wolfpack captain said. “It’s a childhood dream regardless of what round it is.” As much as Smith-Williams and the others have been looking forward to realizing those dreams, physically preparing for it during the current coronavirus pandemic has been problematic. Not only have players been limited in their ability to work out and stay in shape because of social distancing and stay-athome orders, but because schools have been forced to cancel their Pro Days and teams are unable to hold individual workouts, many have been unable to showcase their skills the way they’d like. It’s a particularly difficult situation for those on the borderline of being drafted or having to take the much more difficult free agent route to the NFL. “I’m a student of the game and know what I’m doing on the field. I’m not some physical freak. I never have been nor ever will be,” Strnad told Demon Deacon Digest. “I’m just focused on getting into football shape. “There’s no testing or anything to prepare for. It’s just getting ready for camp for whatever team I end up with. I want to See NFL DRAFT, page B2

North State Journal for Wednesday, April 22, 2020

B2 WEDNESDAY

4.22.20

TRENDING

Isaiah Todd: The forward from Raleigh’s Word of God Christian Academy became the second player to jump from high school to the G League this week, signing with the league with the intent of joining its new elite program. Todd’s signing was announced Friday, one day after Jalen Green became the first in the program. Todd was a McDonald’s AllAmerican and Jordan Brand Classic selection this year. Todd had committed to play college basketball at Michigan before announcing earlier last week that he would pursue something different.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

XFL

Duke seniors Leaonna Odom and Haley Gorecki were both selected in last Friday’s WNBA Draft. Odom, a 6-foot-3 forward who averaged 14.3 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Blue Devils last season, was picked in the second round (15th overall) by the New York Liberty. Gorecki, a guard who led Duke in scoring (18.5 points), rebounding (6.6) and assists (4.4) was picked in the third round (31st overall) by the Seattle Storm.

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“I want to be in Carolina for my whole career. Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey on the four-year, $64 million contract extension he signed last week. ROBERT FRANKLIN | AP PHOTO

NASCAR

NHL

Trey Murphy III: The Durham native is transferring from Rice to Virginia, Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett announced last week. Murphy will be eligible to practice next season, but will have to wait a year before he can play. He will have two years of eligibility remaining. The 6‑foot‑8 Murphy averaged 13.7 points as a sophomore and made 75 3-pointers. Derek Jeter: The Miami Marlins CEO told team employees during a conference call Monday he is forgoing his salary during the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press. The person said other members of the Marlins’ executive team agreed to take pay cuts, while baseball operations personnel will continue to receive their full salaries through at least May 31. MLB senior staff has taken pay cuts, and some teams have taken similar stances with their administrative staff.

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“That was nothing.” B.J. Armstrong on Michael Jordan criticizing teammates in the first two episodes of “The Last Dance,” a documentary on the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls. PRIME NUMBER

25% Reduction in pay to NBA players starting with their May 15 checks. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, speaking after the league’s regularly scheduled April board of governors meeting, said all options remain on the table for trying to resume play and eventually crowning a champion. The salary decision was made in concert with the National Basketball Players Association.

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Dustin Byfuglien and the Winnipeg Jets agreed to mutually terminate his contract Friday, ending a lengthy dispute between the two sides over his absence this season. The defenseman walked away from the $14 million remaining on his contract seven months after he told the Jets he’d lost the desire to play following ankle surgery.

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Lenoir-Rhyne defensive back Kyle Dugger beat the odds by being invited to the NFL Scouting Combine despite coming from a Division II school. coaches their athleticism or whatever. But you’ve just got to take it and run with whatever opportunity you got.” Now that the players have done everything they can do in preparation for the draft, all that’s left is the waiting and worrying. Most of the state hopefuls said

William Byron won his second consecutive NASCAR virtual race on Sunday holding off Timmy Hill — the driver who moved him out of the way to win an earlier iRacing event — to take the victory at virtual Richmond Raceway. Byron, 22, is an avid iRacer who learned to drive a stock car through the platform.

TENNIS

NFL DRAFT from page B1 show up in shape and ready to perform at my highest level.” The good news for most of the state’s top draft hopefuls is that they did at least get some opportunity to perform before the NFL’s coaches and general managers at either a postseason all-star game such as the Senior Bowl or EastWest Shrine Bowl, or the league’s Scouting Combine in Indianapolis in February. Some — Smith-Williams, Strowbridge and Highsmith, in particular — took full advantage of those chances with strong showings. It was especially helpful for Division II standout Dugger, a defensive back who has flown under the radar until this point in his career. “It hasn’t been the easiest switch going from not having any of that (attention) to having a lot of it,” Dugger said during his combine interview session. “But (Lenoir-Rhyne) definitely got behind me and they’re really excited.” But not everyone has been as fortunate. “Life throws curveballs,” Strowbridge said. “I’m thankful I got the opportunity to go to the combine and do what I did there. But it’s just crazy. I feel so bad for the dudes that weren’t able to participate in their pro day and show

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they plan on watching the draft in its entirety, even though they might have to wait another day or two to hear their name called. At least one said he’ll find a distraction to keep himself busy until his phone rings. In doing so, Smith-Williams will keep up something of a Wolfpack draft day tradition started

by fellow defensive lineman Willie Young. “I’m going to go fishing,” Smith-Williams said, taking a page from Young, who also decided to cast a line rather than stare at the television on his draft day in 2010. “I’m not planning to be around anybody. I’ll have my phone turned up full volume and any phone call I get, I’ll go crazy. But I’m not going to sit there and watch the whole draft.” Heck, on the other hand, said he plans on keeping a close eye on the proceedings — not only to find out where he lands but also to see who ends up going to his father’s team. And if those two interests intersect and dear old dad ends up becoming his position coach with the Chiefs, it would only make a special day even better. To at least some members of the family, that is. “I think my dad and I would handle it totally well,” Heck said. “I think that it would cause a lot of stress for my mom. But it would be exciting to eventually one day hopefully play for him. That would be cool, but I’m going to be happy wherever I end up going.” Panthers pick 7th overall The Carolina Panthers hold eight picks in this week’s draft, including seventh overall, and they

Chile’s Nicolas Jarry was given an 11-month doping ban by the International Tennis Federation on Monday stemming from a failed test at the Davis Cup Finals in November. The ITF ruled that Jarry “bore no significant fault or negligence for his violation,” but it makes players responsible for what is found in their bodies.

have plenty of needs to fill. While GM Marty Hurney will still be making the final call on the Panthers’ selections, new coach Matt Rhule will surely have a big say in how the revamped Carolina roster will look going forward. That starts with the team’s first pick, and the Panthers could go several different directions in Round 1. Auburn defensive lineman Derrick Brown has been named in several mock drafts as the possible choice at No. 7, and Clemson linebacker Isaiah Simmons could immediately help a fill the hole left by the retirement of middle linebacker Luke Kuechly. The Panthers also need help at cornerback, so that could be a priority in the first few rounds. And then there’s quarterback, where Teddy Bridgewater replaces Cam Newton as starter. Carolina invested a third-round pick in Will Grier last year, but Hurney and Rhule — and new offensive coordinator Joe Brady — could target a signal-caller to groom for the future if there’s a fit in the draft. The Panthers hold all seven of their own picks and have a second selection in the fifth round thanks to the trade that sent quarterback Kyle Allen to the Redskins. Carolina received the second pick in the fifth round (148th overall) to go along with its own pick at No. 152.

North State Journal for Wednesday, April 22, 2020

DAVIE COUNTY

DAVIDSON COUNTY

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

WEEK 6

B3 CURRITUCK COUNTY

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From Cumberland to Davie North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series, led by Brett Friedlander, will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some will be obvious choices, others controversial, but all of our choices are worthy of being recognized for their accomplishments — from the diamond and gridiron to racing ovals and the squared circle. This week’s five profiles come from Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Davidson and Davie counties.

Cumberland County

RAYMOND FLOYD FLOYD WAS SUCH AN accomplished baseball player that he was offered a contract with a $25,000 signing bonus by the Cleveland Indians following his graduation from Fayetteville High School in 1960. But as the son of a golf professional — his father ran the enlisted man’s course at Fort Bragg for 21 years — he was even better as a golfer. So he turned down the Indians to accept a golf scholarship at UNC, where he stayed only one semester before turning pro. “I was a pretty good pitcher as a kid in Fayetteville, North Carolina,” he said in a New York Times article in 1976. “I could throw a screwball, which is unusual for a young right hander, and I also had a slider. I had an offer to sign with a major league team, but I chose golf instead.” It turned out to be a good decision. His first career victory came at the age of 20 in March 1963. Six years later he won his first major title with the first of his two PGA Championships. Floyd added a Masters green jacket to his collection in 1976, leading wire-to-wire on the way to an eight-shot triumph, then became the oldest player to date to win a U.S. Open by shooting a final round 66 to beat Greg Norman in 1986 at the age of 43 years and nine months. Floyd finished his career with 22 victories and is one of only two golfers, joining fellow Hall of Famer Sam Snead, to win PGA Tour events in four different decades. He added 14 wins on the Champions Tour after turning 50. In addition to his individual success, Floyd was a member of eight Ryder Cup teams. He also served as captain of the U.S. squad in 1989.

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Kill Devil Hills’ Dennis Anderson created arguably the best known monster truck in history, the iconic Grave Digger. enough and told him, ‘I’ll take this junk and dig your grave with it!’ I took a can of spray paint and put ‘Grave Digger’ on the door. And then I buried his butt in a mud hole right there in front of everybody.” From that not-so-humble beginning, a legend was born. The transition from local hotshot to nationally recognized sensation began one night in 1983 when a monster truck didn’t show up as scheduled to a local event. Offering his assistance so that the show could go on, Anderson offered up his truck — which already had oversized tractor tires on it — to crush some cars. Anderson eventually transitioned Grave Digger into a monster truck, complete with its trademark black paint scheme, and began competing in TNT Motorsports events. He scored his first major victory by beating Bigfoot in a nationally televised race in St. Paul, Minnesota. Anderson has updated Grave Digger numerous times over the years, becoming a fan favorite while winning five series championships along the way. The success came with a price, however. Anderson suffered multiple injuries because of crashes, many caused by his aggressive driving style. He was forced to miss the World Finals in 2017 after he was hospitalized attempting a backflip and retired from the sport later that year. Dare County

EMANUEL DAVIS DAVIS EARNED HIS PLACE ON this list because of his performance on the football field at Manteo High School, East Carolina and the Canadian Football League. His backstory only makes his

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Fayetteville’s Raymond Floyd won four majors in his PGA career and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989. Currituck County

DENNIS ANDERSON THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WEREN’T the only ones whose careers took flight in Kill Devil Hills. Anderson also got his start in the small Outer Banks community. Only instead of taking off from the sandy dunes of the beach, he made a name for himself as a mud bogger in a beat-up 1951 Ford panel truck he nicknamed “Grave Digger” in response to a rival’s taunt. “He was dogging me about my junk truck,” Anderson said. “Finally, I’d had

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Manteo’s Emanuel Davis was a captain at East Carolina and won a Grey Cup in his final Canadian Football League season.

accomplishments all the more impressive. It began at the age of 9 when the car in which he was riding was hit by a truck. He and his brother survived the accident. His father and namesake, who was driving, did not. A few years later, he was thrown out of the house by his mother’s boyfriend after she was sent to prison on a drug charge. He was taken in by the deacon of a local church, only to end up back on the street after the man died of a stroke. Davis was already a multisport star at Manteo by then. But with nowhere to go, his athletic career — not to mention his non-sports future — was thrown into doubt. That is until a volunteer assistant coach named R.V. Owens and his family stepped in. Writing their own version of the movie “The Blind Side,” the Owenses opened their home to the youngster in need. He went on to earn all-conference and all-state recognition in football, basketball and track as a state champion in the triple jump before earning a football scholarship to ECU. A physical cornerback, Davis played in 49 games for the Pirates from 2008-11 while intercepting nine passes and making 230 tackles. Following his college career, he was signed by the Cleveland Browns, but at 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, was deemed too small for the NFL and was released. Undeterred, he headed to Canada where he played six productive seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders, twice earning all-star recognition and winning a Grey Cup championship in his final game before retiring at the end of 2018. Davidson County

MAX LANIER LANIER WAS ONE OF THE MOST significant baseball players of his era, and not just because he won 108 games over nine seasons, played in two All-Star Games, once led the National League in earned run average and helped pitch the St. Louis Cardinals to a championship. Rather, it’s because he was one of the first to challenge the major leagues’ “reserve clause” in 1948. It’s not something he intentionally set out to do, like fellow Cardinal Curt Flood 25 years later. Lanier and several others were simply unhappy with the offers they were given by team management. With free agency not yet allowed, they decided to jump to the Mexican League for double what they were making in St. Louis. That turned out to be a mistake because of broken financial promises and poor playing conditions. But when Lanier and the others tried to return to the Cardinals after two years away, they were barred from playing in the majors by commissioner Happy Chandler. In response, the players sued MLB, claiming

that the “reserve clause” was a violation of U.S. antitrust laws. Worried that it might lose the case, MLB relented and Lanier was reinstated in 1949. Although he earned his success on the diamond as a left-handed pitcher, Lanier was a natural right-hander who taught himself to throw as a Max Lanier southpaw after breaking his arm at the age of 12. A multisport star at Denton High, he signed with the Cardinals in 1937. Like many athletes at the time, he was inducted into the Army during World War II, but to his good fortune, he was never called to active duty. He enjoyed his two best seasons during that time, posting a lead-leading 1.90 ERA while going 15-7 in 1943, then winning 17 games the following year while beating the St. Louis Browns in the deciding game of the World Series. Davie County

WHIT MERRIFIELD AFTER SIX YEARS IN THE MINORS without a call-up, Merrifield seriously considered giving up baseball in 2015. He decided against it only after a conversation with his father who, according to a story told to The Kansas City Star, warned him that “when you take your cleats off, you can’t ever put them back on.” Bill Merrifield was speaking from experience. A third baseman who played college ball at Wake Forest, he also spent six seasons in the minors. He was eventually added to the Pittsburgh Pirates in September 1987 but never got into a game. Things turned out better for his son. Whit finally got his chance on May 18, 2016, when he made his major league debut for the Kansas City Royals against the Boston Red Sox. He got his first career hit in that game, off Boston ace David Price. The following season, batting in the leadoff spot, he led the American League with 34 stolen bases. The second baseman from Mocksville and Davie County High School had the most steals again in 2018 with 45 while also leading the league with 192 hits, establishing himself as one of the game’s top players. It’s a status reinforced this July when, at the age of 30, he became the oldest position player in Royals history to earn his first All-Star Game selection. Merrifield had already earned his place in the record books before he was ever selected by Kansas City in the ninth round of the 2010 draft. Earlier that spring, his RBI single in the bottom of the 11th inning produced the winning run that gave South Carolina the first of its two straight national championships. In three seasons with the Gamecocks, he hit .329 with 27 homers.

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Mocksville’s Whit Merrifield won two NCAA championships at South Carolina before he went on to become an All-Star with the Kansas City Royals.

North State Journal for Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Uncanceled: The 1987 football strike

two additional losses in the makeups, however, and dropped to .500 and out of the playoffs. Buffalo, meanwhile, won its canceled game and flipped two of its replacement game losses to wins to go from fourth place to the division title. In the Central, the Browns extended their division lead, taking the crown with an 11-5 mark. Houston held onto its wild card berth, and Pittsburgh picked up an extra win to nose out Seattle for the other wild card. In the West, Denver lost the makeup of its canceled game and had a replacement win flip to a loss. The Broncos, however, still held onto the division title. Second-place Seattle also lost a replacement win and dropped the makeup game for the canceled week to not only miss a chance to take the division but fall out of the playoffs entirely.

NSJ’s ongoing series reimagines the NFL season without replacement players By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic is forcing the cancellation of games in all major sports that are in season and threatening to cancel games for the foreseeable future. While we can’t do anything to stop COVID-19 or bring back the sports we love, we can go back in time and get back some of the games we’ve called off due to labor unrest. In an ongoing series, while none of us have any live sports to watch, we’re un-canceling canceled games from history. We’re not using computer or video game simulations or statistical tricks. Instead, we’re using actual action that took place on the field or ice. Basically, for each canceled game, we’ll use the next time those two teams played (at the same venue) as a “makeup game.” For example, we would use games from the 2020-21 NBA and NHL seasons to fill in any holes left by the coronavirus in this year’s schedule. This week, we’ll look at the 1987 NFL strike. Like the 1982 season we rebuilt last week, this was a mid-season strike. The players walked out following Week 2 and came back for Week 7. The league took a controversial approach to the dispute. After calling off the Week 3 games, NFL owners hired teams of replace

NFC

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From 1990-93, quarterback Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills played in — and lost — four Super Bowls. Could they get early redemption in the reimagined 1987 NFL strike season, or will Bernie Kosar and the Browns erase wounds of their own?

1987 RECORDS

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minor impact on the NFL playoff picture for the season. The extra game caused one wild card spot to flip. The Steelers ended up taking the final spot in the AFC playoffs from the Seahawks. Both teams (Seattle in real life and Pittsburgh in the makeup games) ended up losing to fellow AFC wild card Houston in the first postseason game, so the rest of the playoffs had no changes. No one was happy about the replacement games being played or counting in the standings, however. So next, we replayed those

ment players who took the field for the following three weeks. When the original players returned, the decision was made that the replacement games would count in the league standings, and playoff berths were determined by the 15 weeks that had been played. The Redskins went on to beat the Broncos in the Super Bowl, their second championship in a strike-altered season. We started the un-canceling process by merely making up the canceled games in Week 3. As one might expect, this had a relatively

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with real NFL players in makeup games. That shook things up a little more. Of the 42 replacement games that were played, 24 had different results when we played the makeup game. Replaying the canceled and replacement games, here’s the impact of replacing the four strike-tainted weeks of the 1987 season. AFC Indianapolis won the AFC East in real life. The Colts picked up

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MID-MAJORS from page B1 new nickname that was better suited for its new Division I status. In 2000, the school rebranded itself the Phoenix, referring to a major fire on campus in 1923 that destroyed buildings, classrooms, the library, chapel and student records. “Like the legendary Phoenix, which rises from its own ashes with new life and vigor, Elon College was shaped by the fire, emerging as a stronger institution,” the school president proclaimed. “The elegant and brilliant Phoenix described by ancient scholars was sleek, swift and one-of-a-kind. I can think of no better description for Elon’s outstanding athletics programs.” High Point Panthers It’s tough for a school to differentiate itself when it has one of the most common mascots in the country. That’s the case with High Point, who chose the fourth most common nickname in college sports — the Panthers. A total of 33 teams in all divisions call themselves the Panthers, including eight Division I schools. High Point has done its best to stand out, however, choosing a bright purple mascot named Prowler to represent it. Among other things Prowler has done is hold a press conference to talk about spirit initiatives at the school — which lasted about 30 seconds before the assembled reporters realized that he couldn’t speak. NC A&T Aggies A&T is another school that has a fairly common nickname. Like many agriculture

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The Redskins held onto the East Division crown. Philadelphia flipped two replacement losses to wins to boost the Eagles into second, but it wasn’t enough to get a wild card. In the Central, the Bears added an extra win to hold onto the division title. Minnesota flipped a pair of replacement losses to wins to finish second with a 10-6 mark, good enough to hold onto its wild card. Out West, San Francisco added a win to take the division at 142. New Orleans held onto the wild card with a 12-4 mark. Playoffs As we explained last week, we made up the postseason games in chronological order. In other words, a playoff game couldn’t be played until both teams involved had finished making up their regular seasons and any previous rounds of the playoffs. Obviously, this took a while. The NFC Championship Game wasn’t made up until 2009, and the Super Bowl was played in 2012. Houston beat Pittsburgh, 233, in the AFC wild card game and traveled to Cleveland where they lost to the Browns, 34-10. Buffalo continued its Cinderella run in the divisional round, beating Denver, 27-20. The former fourth-place Bills then upset Cleveland in the AFC Championship Game, 22-19, to advance to its “first ever” Super Bowl. Can the Bills get their elusive Super Bowl win three years before Scott Norwood’s miss? In the NFC, the Saints beat the Vikings, 28-15, in the wild card but lost the following week in San Francisco in a barn burner, 28-27. The Bears dethroned the real-life Super Bowl champions in the divisional round, beating the Skins 27-24. The 49ers then beat Chicago in a low-scoring NFC Championship Game, 10-6, to give us the 49ersBills Super Bowl that seemed to be predicted every year in the late 1980s and early 1990s but never came to pass. Dig up all those old Buffalo BiLLLLs jokes, because it happened again. In a laugher of a Super Bowl, the Niners posted a 45-3 win over hapless Buffalo. Which just goes to show: You can make up games, but you can’t change destiny.

schools — eight of them around the country — A&T adopted the nickname Aggies in 1891. The school’s mascot, however, is a bulldog named Aggie Dog (or Dawg, depending on how cool you are). Legend has it, the choice dates back to early in the 20th century when a bulldog was used to help herd the school’s livestock. During a football game, a bad call by an official wiped out an A&T touchdown and someone supposedly untied the dog and siced it on the referee. A&T wisely decided to get rid of live dogs on the sideline in 1984 and have had a twolegged, costumed version of Aggie Dawg ever since.

Great Depression and the resulting basketball team that was organized was known as the Tom Cats. The school changed its name and began admitting men in 1964, and organized sports teams soon followed. The school’s athletic director chose Spartans, partly in keeping with the ancient tradition represented by Minerva (although she was a Roman goddess, while Spartans are from ancient Greece), and partly because he wanted “a name which had a masculine ring and a tradition of courage.” Meanwhile, a statue of Minerva still stands outside the University Center.

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Here’s another story where you’ll have to strap in. It has a few sharp twists and turns. Wilmington is located close to the coast, so the nickname Seahawks seems fitting. However, the name was originally chosen as a way to pay tribute to … Iowa. Yes, the landlocked state in the middle of the country, about as far from a sea as it’s possible to get. That Iowa. During World War II, the Navy established pre-flight schools to train pilots at colleges around the country, including UNC, Georgia and the University of Iowa. The Pre-Flight schools organized sports teams and competed against colleges. Iowa Pre-Flight chose the nickname Seahawks, which was fitting for aspiring Navy pilots, even those currently located in the heartland. They finished as high as No. 2 in the AP poll during the war and were one of the more popular football teams in the country. When UNCW was looking for a nickname in 1947, its five-person committee decided to revive the nickname in the post-war era.

Yet another North Carolina school that went with a common nickname. More colleges use Eagles than any other nickname, with 75 other schools sharing the moniker with Central. For 37 years, from the school’s beginning in 1910 until 1947, NCCU founder Dr. James E. Shepard gave the same speech to the student body to open the school year. “The Eagle is no common, ordinary barnyard fowl,” he would say. “And while a sparrow clings to its flock, an Eagle soars alone.” UNC Greensboro Spartans UNCG got its nickname relatively late, which is due in large part to the history of the school. It began in 1891 as a women’s college (known for years simply as Women’s College). Since sports opportunities for women for much of the 20th century were, at best, limited, there was no need for a team nickname. The closest the school had to a mascot

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Elon’s teams were known as the Fightin’ Christians for nearly eight decades, but the school rebranded as the Phoenix in 2000. was Minerva, the goddess of Wisdom and Women’s Arts, whose head appears on every diploma the school has ever awarded. Men were admitted for one year in the

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the BRIEF US home sales plunge 8.5% in March, and it may grow worse Baltimore U.S. sales of existing homes cratered 8.5 percent in March with real estate activity stalled by the coronavirus outbreak. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that 5.27 million homes sold last month, down from 5.76 million in February. The decrease was the steepest since November 2015. The situation will likely get worse, said Danielle Hale, chief economist at realtor.com.”Going forward, we’ve seen both home buyers and sellers report being less confident and many are making adjustments to the process,” Hale said. “Already, sellers are getting less aggressive with asking price growth, and we’re seeing roughly half as many new listings come up for sale this year versus last year.” Home-buying had been steady for the first half of March because of low mortgage rates and the finalization of contracts signed in prior months, only to collapse in response to COVID-19 burying the economy in a likely recession. The number of homes for sale in March plunged 10.2 percent from a year ago, to 1.5 million. This shortage appears to be most pronounced among entry level homes. The total number of sales of homes worth less than $250,000 has fallen over the past year because there are so few available.

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House of Raeford is keeping NC consumers supplied with chicken NSJ staff WILLIAMSTON — A North Carolina company is making sure residents can easily buy chicken during the coronavirus shutdown. House of Raeford, headquartered in Rose Hill, is sending trucks throughout eastern N.C. and S.C. loaded with chicken for sale in bulk. Stay-at-Home orders caused consumers to stock their homes with more meat than normal, likely due to more home cooking and fears of supply interruptions. While consumer demand has increased, demand

from restaurants and other commercial foodservice industries has dwindled as Governor Cooper ordered schools and many restaurants to close. House of Raeford got creative by bringing refrigerated trailers to certain locations to sell directly to consumers who might be having trouble finding chicken on the shelves of their local grocery. The sales started in early April with a single plant participating but quickly expanded to six of the company’s seven plants. “We are averaging 7 – 10 sale locations per day,” said Dave Witter, communications manager for House of Ra-

eford. “It will go on as long as we think it is benefitting the public as well as our company.” The trucks bring bulk packages of chicken, including boneless breasts, thighs, tenders, wings and legs. Buyers never leave their car at the sales. “I found out about the chicken sale on Facebook,” said Karen Hardison of Robersonville. She attended a House of Raeford sale last week at the Bob Martin Ag Center in Williamston in Martin County. “It was very well run. They had cones and signs set up and it ran smoothly,” said Hardison. “We

bought several boxes and shared with our neighbors.” Hardison said she arrived early because she knew there would be a crowd. “We got in line early and there were at least 100 cars in line behind us.” She said that meats had been hard to come by in Martin County but that the price, as much as the availability, was her reason for going to the sale. “Boneless, skinless chicken for a dollar a pound is a good deal.” Availability and price are dual motivations for House of Raeford. “We know it has been difficult in recent weeks to not only find, but also in some cases afford, certain food products,” said a statement on the company’s web site. “We hope this opportunity will be helpful to families as our nation continues to face a challenge over the next several weeks.” House of Raeford updates its sale schedules and products offerings daily on its website.

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Volvo, Daimler to found truck fuel cell joint venture Berlin Volvo and the truck division of Daimler have agreed to set up a joint venture to develop and produce fuel cell systems for heavy vehicles, the Swedish and German companies said Tuesday. The two firms said that they will be equal partners in the new enterprise. Daimler Truck will put all its current fuel cell activities into the joint venture, and the Volvo Group will buy a 50 percent stake in the venture for around $652 million. The joint venture will be independent and autonomous, with Daimler Truck and Volvo continuing to compete in all other business areas, the companies said. They hope that joining forces on fuel cells will lower development costs and bring forward the introduction of fuel cells for heavy transport. Both companies aim to offer heavy vehicles with fuel cells in the second half of this decade, and the venture also will explore “other automotive and nonautomotive use cases,” they said. Fuel cells use hydrogen to create electricity. The companies said their preliminary agreement is non-binding. A final agreement is expected by this year’s third quarter. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Coke volume plunges 25% in April; hope for a 2nd half bounce Atlanta Coca-Cola’s global volume tumbled 25 percent in April as the coronavirus pandemic gripped large swaths of the world population. Those volumes made up of bottled drinks and the syrups Coke sells to theaters, restaurants, stadiums and music venues were humming early in the year, revealing how fast the virus hobbled human activity and commerce, from mom-andpop shops to global operators like Coca-Cola Co. “There has been temporary but profound pressure on our customers and our business,” Chairman and CEO James Quincey said Tuesday. The Tokyo Olympics, of which Coke is a major sponsor, has been called off. Theaters and restaurants closed in Europe, the Americas and Africa, and billions took shelter in their homes. While sales to homes spiked briefly, almost half of Coke’s sales come from movie chains, vending machines, concerts and other events. Coke remains optimistic about a rebound in the second half of this year, but Quincey stressed that the company is navigating uncharted territory. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Employees help unload boxes of fresh chicken at sales across North Carolina and the southeast for House of Raeford. The chicken sales have been a way for the company to unload chicken no longer sold to restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic and to help families who find their local grocery stores without large selections.

CARES from page B5 like it’s doing them a disservice,” Fox said. “Like all programs there are people taking advantage of it.” Fox is referring to the fact that any business with less than 500 employees can get the PPP loans even if they are not laying off workers. Banks for example, which may still be operating at full capacity, can still get the loans without having to adjust staffing levels in two months. Before the Coronavirus pandemic struck, restaurants were the largest U.S. employer, supporting over 15.6 million jobs with projected sales of $899 billion for the year 2020. The National Restaurant Association also reports 9 in 10 restaurants have less than 50 employees. Corey says his solution would be to allow business to borrow money

REOPENING from page B5 Elsewhere around the world, step-by-step reopenings were underway in Europe, where the crisis has begun to ebb in places such as Italy, Spain and Germany. Parts of the continent are perhaps weeks ahead of the U.S. on the infection curve of the virus, which has killed more than 170,300 people worldwide, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Businesses that start operating again in the U.S. are likely to engender good will with the Trump administration at a time when it is doling out billions in relief to companies. But the reopenings being announced are a drop in the bucket compared with the more than 22 million Americans thrown out of work by the crisis. In a dispute that has turned nakedly political, President Donald Trump has been agitating to restart the economy, singling out Democratic-led states and egging

under the CARES Act and spend it on payroll when they are able to reopen. “That would protect workers’ paychecks and jobs and provide these companies with some working capital to reopen.” With a record setting 22 million Americans filing for jobless benefits in just the last month alone, few would argue some sort of federal assistance is needed, but the way the government has set up PPP puts the majority of the restaurant industry in a no-win situation. “The government required us to close then proceeds with a $2.3 trillion dollar program that seems to be the exact opposite of what was intended,” Corey says. “We get the added bonus of more government and a future of higher taxes without any assistance. So our conclusion is CARES Act is a complete bust.”

Undated photo of STIR restaurant and bar in Raleigh.

on protesters who feel governors are moving too slowly. In several states — most of them Republican-led — governors said they had seen signs that the coronavirus curve was flattening, making it possible to start reopening businesses and public spaces. Kemp, a Republican, said a decline in emergency room visits by people with flu-like symptoms indicated that infections were going down. But he also acknowledged that Georgia had lagged in COVID-19 testing and announced new initiatives to ramp it up. Texas on Monday began a week of slow reopenings, starting off with state parks, while officials said that later in the week, stores would be allowed to offer curbside service. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Monday that businesses across most of the state would begin reopening as early as next week, although the order did not cover counties with the largest

cities, including Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga. Both states are led by Republicans. Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Monday that he would allow hospitals to begin performing elective procedures if the facilities met an unspecified set of criteria, while Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Monday that he would let his statewide stay-at-home order expire next week as long as strict social distancing and other individual protective measures continued. But governors from many other states said they lacked the testing supplies they need and warned they could get hit by a second wave of infections, given how people with no symptoms can still spread the disease. “Who in this great state actually believes that they care more about jet skiing than saving the lives of the elderly or the vulner-

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able?” Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer remarked, referring to restrictions in place in her state. “This action isn’t about our individual right to gather. It’s about our parents’ right to live.” Trump took to Twitter to complain that the “radical left” and “Do Nothing Democrats” are “playing a very dangerous political game” by complaining about a testing shortage. At the same time, Vice President Mike Pence told governors that Washington is working around-the-clock to help them ramp up testing. Many Americans have taken to the streets in places such as Michigan, Ohio and Virginia, complaining that the shutdowns are destroying their livelihoods and trampling their rights. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert, warned on ABC: “Unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery economically is not going to happen.”

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This combination photo shows Julia Louis-Dreyfus in “Veep,” from left, Tony Sirico, Steve Van Zandt, James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore from “The Sopranos,” and Brian Cox from “Succession.” The three series are among several HBO series available for free streaming on HBO Now.

Books, dance lessons, ‘Sopranos’ — freebies abound online By Mark Kennedy The Associated Press NEW YORK — We might not be totally free these days, but there’s a lot out there that is. Companies like Pure Barre and Peloton are offering free access to fitness classes. Amazon is giving away book classics like “The Call of the Wild” and “Emma,” and MasterClass has experts offering their wisdom for nothing. The coronovirus’s shutdown has wreaked havoc on so many lives and also disrupted many company plans. But some are offering their goods for free or dropping their paywalls for a limited time. It may not make the best financial decision, but marketing experts say it’s good public relations and a nice way to hook future customers as long as it doesn’t seem like companies are taking advantage of the virus. “You have to be careful,” said Penny Sansevieri, the CEO of Author Marketing Experts. “You don’t want someone on social media to all of a sudden say, ‘Well, you’re just trying to take advantage of the fact that people are stuck at home.’” Free shows and films from the entertainment world are a warm blanket for the home-bound. HBO

is making free streams of “The Sopranos,” “Veep,” “Succession,” “Six Feet Under” and “The Wire” on HBO Now. Apple TV Plus is allowing free access to some of its original programs, including “Servant” from M. Night Shyamalan. The distributor FilmRise has the campy 1960s series “Batman” with Adam West — “Bam! Pow!” — and Showtime has extended its free trial period to 30 days. PBS is streaming “ Nature “ episodes and its “ Great Performances,” from Shakespeare to “Kinky Boots,” and YouTube is making many of its original series available to anyone without a subscription. A nice corporate gesture during dark times can do wonders. Sansevieri points to Hallmark, which had a rough few months with controversies over actress Lori Loughlin and its handling of a gay-themed wedding commercial. But in the face of the virus, Hallmark mailed out 2 million free greeting cards to anyone who asked — real cards, not e-cards — “to help put more care in the world.” Sansevieri said the gesture had a lot of “feel-good attached to it,” adding: “Was it a way for Hallmark to wipe away all the other bad stuff? Probably. But it was

“It’s a crazy idea to think this Friday, globally, everyone could be going to the theater together for free. Isn’t that amazing?” Ramin Karimloo, star of “The Phantom of the Opera” very smartly done.” “Tuesdays with Morrie” author Mitch Albom is going past a mere gesture. He’s writing a new serialized story “ Human Touch,” set in Michigan during these coronavirus days, with free chapters available every Friday and suggested donations to his charity SAY Detroit. “I got the idea of how life would be reflected through this virus on one street corner where there were four homes,” he said. “I hope it makes some kind of difference and I hope it provides diversion for people, too.” Fans as far away as Iran have thanked him for the effort. The free gesture works best when it aligns with the company’s core mission. The educa-

tional platform MasterClass has launched weekly free live streaming seminars with such luminaries as “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown and designer Kelly Wearstler. “It’s not a circumstance we would have wished for but to have an opportunity to do the thing we love at a time when people really need us is very special,” said David Schriber, MasterClass’ chief marketing officer. Companies hoping to get us off the couch also have deals: Nike has made online workouts free, Planet Fitness is streaming live workouts on Facebook and Gold’s Gym is offering free access to its app. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has online classes for the brave — or you can just soak in one of their ballets, all free. Live theatrical venues like the Metropolitan Opera plans a streaming gala later this month, Cirque du Soleil has put out free 60-minute compilation specials every week and Andrew Lloyd Webber has new streaming broadcasts of his musicals each Friday for 48 hours on a dedicated YouTube channel. “It’s a crazy idea to think this Friday, globally, everyone could be going to the theater together for free. Isn’t that amazing?”

said Ramin Karimloo who stared as the title character in Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” filmed in 2011. “I’m not saying it’s life-saving but this helps. Even those health care workers who come home, maybe they want to forget what they just went through for 12 hours.” Sansevieri suspects that corporate offers for things requiring us to sweat — gyms, workouts — will retain less new customers than those companies offering pure entertainment. But the gamble could pay off with new customers staying loyal. “If you become a fan of X, Y or Z show, that will definitely stick with you. So certain things will change us behaviorally,” she said. Some media companies have built good will by seemingly riding to the rescue of anyone with kids, like Audible making free dozens of narrated books, from “Harry Potter” to “Peter Rabbit.” Older kids can enjoy Lionsgate films free on its YouTube channel — “The Hunger Games, “La La Land,” and “Dirty Dancing.” Apple TV Plus has also made some of its kids’ offering free, including the series “Snoopy in Space” featuring everyone’s favorite fictional beagle. Peanuts Worldwide is offering free online educational materials to boost the show’s learning. “We’re a feel-good property and I think that’s why we feel it’s really important to make people feel a little bit of comfort during this really awkward time,” said Melissa Menta, senior vice president at Peanuts Worldwide.

Review: New tales for L’Engle fans in ‘Moment of Tenderness’ “The Moment of Tenderness,” by Madeleine L’Engle (Grand Central Publishing) By Molly Sprayregen The Associated Press “The Moment of Tenderness” gifts readers with a new batch of stories from the late Madeleine L’Engle, beloved bestselling author of “A Wrinkle in Time.” Discovered and compiled by L’Engle’s granddaughter, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, the stories range widely in plot, from a girl being bullied at summer camp to a married woman in love with her children’s doctor to an embarrassed daughter resisting her mother’s mandate that she wear her glasses in public. While L’Engle didn’t intend these stories to unite in a single collection, they feel bound together by her unique and powerful tone, which seems to split her characters wide open to expose their raw humanity and allows one story to effortlessly flow into the next. Fans of “A Wrinkle in Time” and other L’Engle favorites will find in “The Moment of Tenderness” something new. While L’Engle has published books in many genres, even Voiklis wrote that it took her time to confirm that some of these stories were in-

deed written by her grandmother, considering their stark differences from some of her more famous works. While they lack a certain whimsy one may expect from L’Engle, these stories are lovely in their own right. There is beauty in their simplicity and intrigue in the depth of the characters’ pain — feelings that Voiklis writes should give us all a glimpse into some of L’Engles own struggles. There is even wonder in the feeling of incompleteness that lingers at the end of many of the stories. Perhaps some were indeed incomplete, but perhaps L’Engle merely desired to produce slices of life, ones that do not offer exact answers or unrealistically neat endings. These stories, all but one written before “A Wrinkle in Time,” are organized in chronological order, an effort by Voiklis to help the reader see her grandmother’s growth as a writer over the two or so decades they were written. Some stories, Voiklis writes, L’Engle wrote for college creative writing classes. One even had a letter grade (A-) and a teacher’s comments scribbled across it. Those comments were not left in for the readers to experience, but knowing they were once there pleasantly evokes the image of a young L’Engle scrawling away, oblivious of the writer she would soon become.

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solutions From April 15, 2020

TAKE NOTICE DAVIDSON 18 SP 611 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jeffrey Scott Ellenburg and wife Nicki Y. Ellenburg to Vance C Dalton, Jr.., Trustee(s), which was dated April 3, 2013 and recorded on April 3, 2013 in Book 2096 at Page 2017 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on January 24, 2018 in Book 2301, Page 704 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on February 6, 2019 in Book 2345, Page 2414, Davidson County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee

JOHNSTON IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION JOHNSTON COUNTY 18SP90 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY REBECCA HORTON DATED OCTOBER 19, 2016 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4850 AT PAGE 719 IN THE JOHNSTON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because

in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on April 27, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 21, Block F, of Wilson Acres as per plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 11, at Page 3 LESS and EXCEPT the 0.583 acre tract described in Deed Book 863, Page 100 and the 1.888 acre tract described in Book 1039, at Page 1751, Davidson County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 770 Tilden Nursery Road, Lexington, NC 27295. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jeffrey Scott Ellenburg and wife, Nicki Y. Ellenburg. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return

the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-18743-FC02

of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on April 28, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Johnston County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Rebecca Horton, dated October 19, 2016 to secure the original principal amount of $113,898.00, and recorded in Book 4850 at Page 719 of the Johnston County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Present Record Owners: Horton

with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

tained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Address of property: 118 W Silver Belle Dr, Zebulon, NC 27597 Tax Parcel ID: 11M01003J

Rebecca

And Being more commonly known as: 118 W Silver Belle Dr, Zebulon, NC 27597 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Rebecca Horton. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date con-

The date of this Notice is February 25, 2020. Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-096349

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Animals crash meetings This undated photo provided by Peace N Peas Farm shows Mambo, an 8-year-old miniature donkey, in Indian Trail, N.C. The farm is renting out the animal, along with others, to make surprise appearances in virtual meetings during the coronavirus pandemic. See brief below.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Farm rents out miniature donkey to crash video calls

Stanly commissioners favor countyled control of stay-at-home order well as conflicting strategies. “Even in his own press conference the other day, he [Cooper] said ‘We need to make a plan,’ which means he doesn’t even have one to get us out of this,” Swain said. “Two days before he did this executive order, every county commissioner in the state was invited to a teleconference where the governor stated, ‘I don’t think we should do a stay-at-home order.” Swain took issue with two paragraphs in the governor’s executive order that indicated that county commissioners in N.C. had “failed to act.” “He threw us under the bus right there, after he told us not to do it. That’s my problem with it,” Swain said. “We are closer to the people of Stanly County. I do happen to trust most business owners in Stanly County to use common

sense.” Commissioner Zachary Almond commented on the status of churches within the county, questioning how much longer the stayat-home order would impact their finances. “If people aren’t at church, they aren’t tithing,” Almond said. “Some of our small, older churches just pass around the plate on Sunday and don’t have online giving. I talked to one pastor who told me that they’re $10,000 below budget for the month — they can’t keep operating like that.” Commissioner Bill Lawhon shared his opinion that Stanly County has correctly enacted social distancing due to the county’s latest statistics: only three deaths and 21 cases out of 62,000 citizens. “We need to urge the governor, whether we get the responsibility or not in making the

decision, to reopen all businesses,” Lawhon said. Commissioner Tommy Jordan brought up his concern that reopening local businesses in Stanly County would flood the local market if Mecklenburg and Cabarrus County were to remain closed. Jordan added that while he wants to open up businesses as soon as possible, his opinion is that “opening the whole state at once is a good idea.” Vice-Chairman Ashley Morgan made the motion to send a letter to the governor and local representatives, a move which was seconded by Commissioner Mike Barbee before it was unanimously passed by the board. “The request is that we reopen North Carolina and if they’re not willing to, that they give counties that option and power to do so by May 31,” Morgan stated.

Stanly Schools superintendent resigns, takes post in Iredell

ceeding growth… Now we have one D school. We have about $14 million in grants and another $10 million in the process. Graduation rate is the highest it’s ever been in the history of the county.” Another achievement in his time is reducing inefficiencies in how programs work across the district. “Transportation when I got here was 79% efficient. This year we’ll be at 96.8%. And anytime you improve efficiencies, you’re reducing the amount of local taxpayer dollars that have to be spent out.” The school board has not picked a successor for James, but they are having a meeting April 22 to begin discussions. James said he will help however he can. “I’m going to help them there. I have a vested interest in Stanly County. It’s not like I’m divorcing the county,” he said. “I’m very in love with Stanly. It is my second home, and I want to make sure the great things we started continue.” James said there will be some challenges for the next superintendent though. The school buildings are all aging, and he said there is not enough tax revenue to do the kinds of renovations that are needed. James hopes there will be economic development in the area soon that will increase the tax base and allow them to build modern school buildings. He also said unfunded mandates from the state and federal governments make it difficult to maintain school employee positions. “The state keeps pressing increasing insurance, increasing retirement, FICA, and as that gets pushed down to small rural counties, there’s just not enough tax dol-

lars locally to sustain the current system with the employees it has,” James said. “So what’s happening is, through attrition, rural counties are seeing more and more workers not replaced after they retire.” James will help find the new superintendent and to navigate the rest of this unusual school year, but then he will start next school year as the Iredell-Statesville Schools superintendent. “My phones been blown up by people upset that I’m leaving, but the bottom line is, at the end of the day, Iredell County is home.” Things have changed in his home county though since he was a child. The main industry was textiles, with Mooresville’s economy being reliant on a denim dyeing factory. “When I grew up in Iredell, it was almost identical to Stanly County — 60-70,000 residents,” James said. “Then textiles was replaced by NASCAR, and it sort of happened overnight.” Now Iredell is a busy Charlotte suburb. There are 36 schools in Iredell-Statesville Schools and only 21 in Stanly. James says some people worry when there is a changing of the guard but he isn’t looking to overhaul the whole system as the new leader in Iredell. “My goal is to go in and continue the great work that’s already there.” “I appreciate all the support in Stanly from the community. The community has been tremendous,” James said, saying he is hopeful for the county’s future. “The commissioners have been great to work with. We might not always agree, but they truly want what’s best for Stanly students and education system.”

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal

Union County Peace N Peas Farm will rent Mambo, the 8-yearold miniature donkey, and his friends to crash boring company conference calls. Companies can choose other farm animals they want to invite as guests on their video calls. According to the farm animal’s meeting registration website, they include three horses, Heiren, Zeus and Eddie, along with some chickens and ducks. Customers can reserve 10 minutes with the animals for $50, and co-workers can also choose a virtual meeting name for the farm animal. The farm has also gotten requests from teachers who want the animals to crash their virtual classrooms.

ALBEMARLE — The Stanly County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed (7-0) a motion Monday night to send a letter to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper advocating for allowing local boards to handle stay-at-home orders. The motion was enacted following the board’s discussion about the potential reopening of local businesses that have been forced to close due to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Matthew Swain, who is one of six Stanly residents who have recovered from the coronavirus, told the board that he didn’t trust the governor to pull out of his stay-at-home mandate — Executive Order 121 — because of a lack of timeframe provided as

Cabinet maker to open new facility Cabarrus County GoldenHome International Inc., a company that makes high-end kitchen cabinets is investing $86 million into a new facility outside Charlotte and is bringing in 257 jobs. The subsidiary of a Chinese company is opening a North American headquarters in Concord. It was lured by $3.2 million in incentives from the state, Cabarrus County and the city. The firm makes kitchen cabinets and customized furnishings. The facility will be on the site of a former Philip Morris cigarette manufacturing operation. Jobs will pay an average salary of $42,593 per year. AP

Man dies after car backs into Yadkin River Davidson County Authorities have recovered the body of a man who died while trying to unload a boat into a river. The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office responded to an access point on the Yadkin River south of Lexington and found a vehicle submerged in the water. Investigators determined the victim was trying to back the boat into the water when the car it was attached to went under with the man inside, the office said. The vehicle’s windows were rolled down at the time. AP

By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — Two years into Dr. Jeff James’ time at the head of Stanly County Schools, the superintendent has announced he is returning to his home county, Iredell, to take the superintendent role in their system. James dealt with a number of high-profile challenges during his tenure in Stanly County: including a parent with an AR-15 at a bus stop, national media attention over cheerleaders holding a Trump flag, and providing education and child nutrition during the COVID-19 outbreak. “It wasn’t an easy decision, but I’ve maintained a home in Iredell County since 1985. I actually was born and raised there,” James told SCJ on the decision. With his wife in Iredell as her mother’s main caregiver, James has lived in Stanly during the week and with her on the weekends. “It’s certainly been a strain traveling.” After going to Iredell County schools through high school, James went to UNC and started a career in the textile industry. In 2002, the industry saw hard times and started laying people off, including James,

which is when he found his way into education. “I had a great career in textiles that took me all over the world,” James said. But when he was laid off, someone from his church, a teacher, asked him to consider working in the schools because of his success working with the church’s youth. After a visit to her class, an administrator asked him to apply for a job, and the rest is history. James did a lateral entry, which allowed him to teach while he pursued credentials. Over the next few years, he worked his way through a few teaching and administrative jobs as he earned various degrees, including a doctorate in education. The doctorate had a dual focus on leadership and cultural foundations. James went to Montgomery County in 2013 to take a job as the assistant superintendent, and after five years, in March of 2018, he was hired to be Stanly County’s superintendent. Now, looking back on his time in Stanly County, he believes he’s achieved many of his goals. “Absolutely,” James said on whether his time in Stanly was a success. “Stanly County has hit an all-time record in academics. When I got here, there were six D schools, very few schools were meeting or ex-

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StanlyHatley, County Journal ♦ Linda Tucker 69, of Hwy 24/27 W, Albemarle,1550 diedN.C. April 13. Albemarle, N.C. 28001.

♦ Bruce Eury, 44, of Albemarle, died April 13.

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♦ Roger Tyson Smith, 48, of Norwood, died, April 14.

♦ Hilda Athene Smith Weaver, 92, of Frog Pond, died April 14.

♦ Phyllis Jane Boone Brock, 73, of x Jerry Wayne Fincher, 85, of Albemarle,Albemarle, died April died 14. April 3. ♦ Virginia Lemons Hatley, 98,Maske, of x Sylvester “Corey” 27, of Albemarle,Albemarle, died April died 15. April 4. x John Henry70, Connell, Jr., 91, of ♦ David Russell Tracy, of Stanfield, died April 6. Oakboro, died April 15. x Jason Eugene94, “Gene” ♦ Frances Gray Mauldin, of Efird, 94, of died April 7. Albemarle,Stanfield, died April 16. x Tony Monroe Smith, 72, of

♦ Pauline Smith Ragsdale, 97,8.of Rockwell, died April Albemarle, died April 16.

x Joyce Joyner Price, 75, of Badin,

♦ Dwight Paul diedBarron, April 8. 71, of Albemarle, died April 17.

x Danny Paul Luther, 65, of Norwood,

died April 9. ♦ Roger Lee Kimrey, 72, of Albemarle, died April 17. x Evelyn Lela Stamper, 90, of Oakboro, died April ♦ Carrie Dell Aldridge, 83, of 10.

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Richfield, on Concealment Poplin,Occ Derick Lynn/ (W M, 4/15/2020 (F) and 2) Assault On Fta -Shoplifting Release Order (M), at of 1) DisxWeap Dwell Goods (M), at 781 Leonard Av, 29) Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Female (M), at 126 South Stanly, NC, on 4/8/2020 Moving Veh (F) and 2) Injury Methamphetamine, F (F), at Third St, Albemarle, NC, on ♦ Simpson, Thomas Kale Albemarle, on 04/18/2020 To Real Property (M), at 31621 x Oxendine, Misty Lee (I 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, (W4/13/2020 /M/30) Cited on Charge Clete Rd, Albemarle, NC, on /F/34) Arrest onChad chrg of Fta (W M, ♦ Watson, Alan on 04/09/2020 of xSimple Possess Sch Ii 4/18/2020 Hill, James Wilson (W - Release Order (M), at NC 30) Arrest on chrg of Possess Cs/M/38) (2001121), Nc 49/ x Leggett, Timothy James Arrestaton chrg of 1) HwyMethamphetamine 24/27, Albemarle, NC,(F), at ♦ Bolton, Parker james Street, (WKimberly M, 32) Arrest on chrg Surrender ByRichfield, Surety (M),on 2) on 4/8/2020 2833 Us 52 North/lowder Rd, (W /F/45) Arrest on chrg of 4/15/2020 of Felony Possession Of Surrender By Surety (F), and Albemarle, 04/19/2020 x Oxendine, Mistyon Lee (I Detainer (M), at(F), Pennington Cocaine at 161 W Main 3) Surrender By Surety (F), /F/34) Arrest on chrg of ♦ Ledbetter, Heidi Marie (W St/s FirstNC, St, Albemarle, on at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, Rd, Albemarle, on Fleming, Joseph Ryan (W M, Misd♦Prob Viol Out Of County /F/28) on chrg of 04/09/2020 NC, onArrest 4/13/2020 4/17/2020 21) Arrest on chrg of Detainer (M), at 32110 Bridge (M), at NC 24/27, NC, on Breaking And Or Entering (F), at 631 Nc x Tompkins, Christopher x Gomez-garcia, Ruben 4/8/2020 ♦ Griffin, Samuel David (W Rd, Mt Pleasant, NC, on 24-27 Bypass E, Albemarle, on Dwayne (W M, 20) Arrest on (U /M/51) Arrest on chrg /M/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) 4/14/2020 x Freeman, Michael Lee (W chrg of Possess Marijuana of Detainer (F), at 126 S 04/19/2020 Assault On Female (M), 2) /M/41) Arrest on chrg of 1) Up To 1/2 Ounce (M), at Third St, Albemarle, NC, on ♦ 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(M),St, at Albemarle, 8318 Nc 126 S Third on 4/7/2020 04/08/2020 Hwy 742, Oakboro, NC, on 04/16/2020 ♦ Patterson, Jamie Terry (W WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ♦ Temmermand, Michael

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Albemarle,xdied 18. Huneycutt, 78, of JerryApril Dickson Locust, died April 11.

♦ Harvey Wayne Edwards, 81, of New London, died April 18. x Shirley Mae Haire, 73, of Albemarle, died April 11.

♦ Nancy H. Sides, 74, of Locust, died April 18. x Betty Jane Keever Rogers, 87, of Albemarle, died April 11.

♦ Jesse Wilson Farmer, 73, of x Pauline Elizabeth Almond Tucker, Albemarle,98, died April 20. of Albemarle, died April 11. ♦ Kendra Turner Whitley, 56, of Norwood, died April 20.

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♦ Fahy, Harry Michael (W M, x James, Thomas Owen (W 23) ArrestArrest on chrg of Second /M/44) on chrg of Dv Degree Trespass (M), at 781 Protection Order Violation, Av, Albemarle, 24-27 Bypass E/henson St, Leonard M (M), at 44145 Catfish on 04/16/2020 Albemarle, on 04/08/2020 Rd, New London, NC, on ♦ Gramling, Jimmy Lewis (B 4/9/2020 /M/55)xArrest chrg of Brooks,on Michael Lee J (W ♦ Simpler, William Arthur Trespass On RrArrest Right-of-way /M/36) on chrg of Rankin, Karena on Quincanya (Wx M, 50) Arrest chrg of (M), at 43246 Isen New 1) Assault ByRd, Strangulation (B /F/21) Arrest on chrg Assault On Female (M), of at London, NC, on 4/16/2020

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China will pay for this COVID-19 catastrophe The 3 big questions nobody is answering

sometimes a disturbing tendency among people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expira church some services can to keep our families, be open or closed,meltdown whether we oughtSome to we pursue Sweden style — a not Americans are notever. going to stay home f confident will — emerge outis of stronger supposed U.S. tax credits to companies whosimply willknow source at least halfdata of their 1986. experts believe that event, the Star Wars what theythe questioning and asking when we caninstart getting back This allthis newpandemic to Americans, andthan it is not normal.own Nottemp in an and many more ut still continue more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not do so on the bas ed we by should also In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity production back in United States. There is though approximately programor of are Reagan, led directly toshape, the dissolution ofwhile the Soviet Unionremain vigilant and stay s to do, last I to normal as they are$120 conspiracy theorists people who or form. So we should don’t. North State Journal forthe Wednesday, April 15, 2020 afterdown our own e while reasonable stay-at-home ought to lock further. neighbors helping neighbors. especially as statistics roll in that look e I wish billion worth checked. of American direct investment in plants and equipment in 1989. otherwise don’t care if they get themselves or others sick. the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-calle uld also haveTHING an expiration date. We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number of deaths divided by estimates in terms of death and the up Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 temporary ONE IS CERTAIN; after this COVID-19 virus dissipates The cavalier manner in which China lied about the origin of the In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebratio in China. Chinese direct investmentSince in thewhen U.S. did is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 China’s Chernobyl. questioning government at all levels become aisbad normal.” North State Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 notaround normal. Not in any way, the number of identified COVID-19 cases — but both the numerator of economic damage. We need transpa the globe and in the United States, China will pay for this virus, covered up its spread and tried to tell the world there were only money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face shields for necessary sacrifices are comparison. Senators inwere Washington are already about 15, 2020 Stanly Journal Wednesday, April 22, 2020 thing? That is what free County citizens living in afor free society supposed Nottalking one little bit. the possibility North and State Journal for Wednesday, 15,half 2020 ain catastrophe vigilant stay safe,oratanother. and in the denominator are likely wrong. We don’tin know how many scientific — we need to know w one way 3,341 related deaths hashealth led to$1.2 worldwide panic, economic collapse and care workers out of his own home. through t An investment tax credit ofApril 30% on of U.S. investment China of China forgiving trillion debt we owe them as one way the toexperts get over. to do, last I THIS checked. WEEK, according to members ofofthe federal government, That would mean that fatality rate is actually far l able with this so-called “new people have actually died coronavirus. Some sources suggest the don’t and when they hope to know wha In order to put the crisis caused by China in perspective, zero millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out of work. today, or $60 billion, applied to repatriated American China to “pay”have damage they have suggested, caused thehas US.also Don’t hold your My firstand concern asmanufacturing we go along in all this, of course, isfor mythe family. I’m Stacey Matthews written under therate pseudonym Siste state and local governments, Americans begun to flatten even if the transmission is high. number has been overestimated, given that classification for cause We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing t worldwide investment pandemics can trace source to United States over The crisis has cost the U.S. at least $2.4 trillion in added to the U.S.their would costworried thethe U.S. Treasury billion incoronavirus breath waiting ataxpayer Chinese to ahappen but ask your elected about them$18 catching the virus, and I’m worried Ifor will. After “Jubilee” and is regular contributor to and Legal Insurrecti the curve in the novel outbreak. The excitement wasbe Secondly, what are weRedState expecting in terms of a secon of death, particularly among elderly patients, can variable. Some they need to start answering serious qu our 231-year history. At least four in the 20th century alone can be debt plus trillions more in Federal Reserve backup liquidity to the tax revenue spread over a few years. $18 billion lost revenue is(swine representatives topandemic, hold China accountable in institute’s tangible financial ways for suffering fromin the H1N1 virus flu) during the 2009 muted — after all, trends can easily reverse — but real. Americans The model simply cuts off in early August. I sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to directly traced to China: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977 markets and financial outlets. If the U.S. dollar were not the reserve decimal dust compared to the $6 I’ve trillion+ Plan we areprecautions, now this disaster. been Marshall tryingabided to take extra because all ofThey’ve this brings up have by recommendations and orders. left their jobs predict how many people will die in a second wave. Th r the“Russian pseudonym Sister manyas people arewe dying home. institutions seem prone. flu” and theToldjah 2002 SARS Therenot is evidence thatenemies the currency, would not time be able to are fund any of these emergency undertaking to save ouroutbreak. own economy, of stay defeated in the It is at about they expected to operate as responsible citizens of deeply way too many memories ofthey’ve a painful experience I’ddistancing; prefer not to repeat. to at home; practiced social inclue many places, mostand important problem because experts maintain th e and Legal Insurrection. Even more importantly, we have no how many Americans massive 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic also had its origins in China. measures without immediate fear of rampant inflation currency past. theeasily worldmost like any other has modern nation. seasonal, which means we are likely to see more seriou what also makes me lose sleep is how everyone they’ve donned masks. NealisRobbins, publisher | Frank Hill,But senior opinion editor actually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest that the number Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA There 100% agreement, China, that COVID-19 depreciation. China has been outside cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American Weof need Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion The result: aof reduction incases expected hospitalization and death. editor in thethe fall. Andhost thatofmeans we will be faced with eithe identified could be an order of magnitude lower than “The Ben Shapiro Show” and ed originated business in Wuhan Province probably from the completely China has to pay for their aberrant ways and decisions through now for the past 30 years. They have made notosecret that they of Washington Institute for Health transparency According the University lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wi Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor number of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. com. unregulated and unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked intend to replace the U.S. the premier superpower in Evaluation the world and Metricseditor and model most oft cited by members of the testing andhygiene contact tracing, or with the realization tha andasChinese honesty Neal Robbins, publisher |as Frank Hill, senior biowarfare lab run by the communist army.opinion to bring China into the civilized world of 21st century health, replace the dollar the reserve currency with their renminbi. Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let every from our Until China adopts rigorous verifiable policing and regulation of and fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the blame peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can w their food safety and health protocols, American business has no other or express sincere regret and remorse, because that is not what scientific experts ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling out tens of millions of tests over choice than to build redundant manufacturing elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of every weakness — we need to plantsAugust by nearly 12,000. months — and compelling people to take tests regular Jason for national security and safety reasons as well as supply and delivery they find in adversaries and keep pushing until they win or the know what they Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomati TORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS reliability concerns. adversaries push back. know, what they questions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 million Ameri The most direct way to make China “pay” for this disaster is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such as the Chernobyl First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? don’t and when U.S. tax credits to companies who will source at least half of their meltdown inHUDSON 1986. Some experts believe that event, not the Star Wars COLUMN | REP. RICHARD important because it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as the theyThere hope to production back in the United States. is approximately $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a Americans are not going to stay home for months on e billion worth of American direct investment plants and equipment in 1989. know what in they more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not do so on the basis of ever-evolv in China. Chinese direct investment in the U.S. is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. don’t. ought to lock down further. especially as statistics roll in that look like the lower-e comparison. Senators in Washington are already talking about the possibility We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number of deaths divided by estimates in terms of death and the upper-end estima An investment tax credit of 30% on half of U.S. investment in China of China forgiving $1.2 trillion in debt we owe them as one way to get the number of identified COVID-19 cases — but both the numerator of economic damage. We need transparency and hone today, or $60 billion, applied to repatriated American manufacturing China to “pay” for the damage they have caused the US. Don’t hold your and the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many scientific experts — we need to know what they know, investment toWITH the U.S. would cost theunder U.S. Treasury $18 billion in or stay-at-home breath waiting forinto a Chinese tous happen but ask elected “THIS IS THE DAY the lord has made, let rejoice and beyour glad Hydromer Inc. in Concord and New MOST STATES either shelter-in-place fallen place. I“Jubilee” understand of the virus andhope the need people have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources suggestthe theseriousness don’t and when they to know what they don’t. tax revenueorders spreadthanks over ato few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is representatives to hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for in it” (Psalm 118:24). Salisbury are switching their operation local or state governments, a majority of Americans take precautions, but I’m people who simply number has been overestimated,togiven that classification foruneasy cause with how We’re grown-ups, andask we’re willing to follow their a decimal dust compared to the $6 trillion+ Marshall Plan we are now this disaster. I know that during this challenging time of social distancing, In Fayetteville, a minister began a p are having to adjust to what is being calledof the “newparticularly normal.” among elderly questions about the and when can start getting back to serious death, patients, can bedata, variable. Some things they need to start answering questions, or the undertaking to save our own economy, not of defeated enemies as in the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of working from home or losing a job, it may be difficult to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland Count Some of these orders extend at least through the suggest end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. sources the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all othe past. theas world likeThey’re any nation.we glad” the Bible tellsother us tomodern do. as However, as aasChristian, husband Thesewithout stories from throughout our r Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June.many people arebedying treated though a society simply must accept at home. institutions seem deeply prone. China has been stealing, pirating and Gov. pillaging American and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me oftells justus how much we it’s safe hope, inspiration Here cheating, in North Carolina, Democratic Roy Cooper stated during question what government about when to begin the and supplies to peopl Even more importantly, we have no clue howthe many Americans business now for the past 30 years. They have made no secret that they have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the lines of the corona a recent coronavirus press briefing that “weactually just don’t know yet” if the Someprocess of returning back tonumber normalcy. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduatefront have coronavirus. scientists suggest that the of UCLA and Harvard Lenten and intend to replace the U.S. as the premier superpower in the world and pandemic. While people throughout our commu orders will extend intoofMay. No.ofThe government we have theBen right to ask those when did state’s stay-at-home identified cases could be an order magnitude lowerworks than for theus, andhost of “The Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of replace the dollar as the reserve currency with their renminbi. For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Easter seasons If he does decide to extend it, questions should beofasked as who to the And thenot longer orders number people have hadquestions. coronavirus and beenstay-at-home tested. com. are in place all over the ioning making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting se justification for it. And the answers should notabe vague ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such as Michigan, provide nment Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people o must do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about message of affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and work levels It will need to be explained in detailhope to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand that we will affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense an are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. | STACEY MATTHEWS me a once again enjoy God.” we can defeat the coronavirus and keep amount of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they hing? sporting events, If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. are reliable. can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer is what reflect and be comforted, that we may live out Until then, the Lenten and Easter se concerts, family To date, I’ve gone along with what the state has asked and thenon this message with details that give theirso statements believability. COLUMN | BEN SHAPIRO God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy spo itizens mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, gatherings, COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services and many the data. |State Republican leaders have, too. services ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should also still continue BEN SHAPIRO church in a freeCOLUMN confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary Unfortunately, when certain types ofand questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home sacrifices for the greate many more ty were In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired they by stories humanity are over. disturbing tendency among some people to treat those China lied measures are origin understandable, shouldofalso have an expiration date. AIN; after thissometimes COVID-19avirus dissipates The cavalier manner in which about the of the after our own osed neighbors helping neighbors. I wish everyone celebrating Easter, a simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back This isworld all new to Americans, and it is not normal. 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While throughout communities continue to Paycheck step up, undance of caution.” the more people, sitting atfor home feeling isolated about focused on ll extend into May. No. The government works us, and we have theand/or right toanxious ask those Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the testing and contact tracing, or with the realization that we will have throughout our district. weeks. If you have questions, or have not received your Economic making. As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-employed people and y China has to pay for their aberrant ways and decisions through provide a For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Congress, like the Paycheck ned in detail to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand Easter seasons t, questions should be asked asThis to the questions. And the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the common sense rump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work. includes a business in Fayetteville that contacted my office Impact Payment, the IRS has set up a portal to check the status Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people on the payroll, while directof ame out of at a home economic and financial Diplomacy has obviously notofIworked making. Asmeans. I celebrated Easter with my family, reflected onstates, 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-employed people and obless and an undetermined answers. message offor swers should not vague ones like “we country, and the stricter some them get in suchrelief as Michigan, provide abe solutions eak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can we do? Are needing assistance accessing the Paycheck Protection Program. individual payments, which can be found on my website. affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any will soon reach families and workers. Please know that I’ll to we bring China into the world of 21status century health, hygiene Corinthians 1:4, the which reminds ourlocal Lord “comforts usisolated in all our helping small keep people on the payroll, while direct els hundreds thousands of civilized cases Leaders the and state levels should be as forthcoming asbusinesses they ncepredicting of caution.” more people, sitting at home feeling and/or anxious about hope that willof message of entilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling out tens of millions of tests over the next few The SBA made a mistake on their application that I was able to fix, to support As always, I will continue to do everything in my power to provide affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense and targeted solutions so that ation of to the people and fairoftrade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the affliction, so that we can may be able toback comfort those who are innot any relief willbut soon reach families and workers. Please know that I’ll be with those answers — blame and again, vague will answers, answer in detail thisGod.” state who when they can get to providing for their families, demand once again enjoy ugust by nearly 12,000. months — and compelling people to take tests regularly, since the hope that we will which helped save 250 jobs. In Concord, the owner of a local brewery our communities with the support and resources you need. On we can defeat the coronavirus and keep people and businesses families, workers has nowhat other or express sincere andthe remorse, because that is not what affliction, comfort whichthat we give ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense and targeted solutions so that the state asked andregret thenwith with details their statements believability. sswith and atthe home for anhas undetermined answers. Here’s problem: We still don’t know the answers toadvantage the keyseason, virus isat transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic? Can we Town Hall with my colleague sporting events, was forced tocelebrating furlough many of his 30continue employees the of the Tuesday, I hosted Telephone If you are the Easter I urge you tostart also whole. once again enjoy where purely totalitarian governments do. They take of every weakness and small God.” we defeat the another coronavirus and keep people and businesses along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all to do what we can to keep ourcan families, redicting hundreds of thousands of on cases Leaders at the local andso state levels should be as forthcoming asmillion they uestions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 Americans — (NC-10) and seasons outbreak. However, thanks to the Paycheck Protection Program, the Congressman Patrick McHenry to answer questions andof reflect this message and be comforted, that we may live out Until then, the Lenten and Easter provide a message concerts, family nd delivery they find in adversaries keep pushing until they win or the sporting events, If you areand celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. n leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should also still continue businesses, I’m cancomfort be with those answers — and again, not vagueonanswers, but answer First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? owner said he would be able to put many of those employees back discuss the new small business loan programs. I was thrilled to God’s example and all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting events, concerts, family adversaries push back. gatherings, reflect on this andquestions be comforted, so that webecause may livewhile out reasonable Untilstay-at-home then, the Lenten and Easter seasons provide a message of of questions getand asked, there is message todetails ask the data, concerts, family hrtain whattypes the state has asked then with that giveabout their statements believability. calling on Pelosi mportant because it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they have been. the payroll. Finally, in Southern Pines, I heard from the owner of a speak directly to hundreds of small business owners from across this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services and many more celebrations after our r is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such as the Chernobyl God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting events, concerts, family ndency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. church services ngopen the way I’ve also had questions about We should allthis continue dostronger whattowe can to keepto our families, and Schumer orgatherings, closed, whether weconfident ought to that pursue Sweden style — a notto Americans are not going stay home for months on end, and company has— 200 employees. Thanks to the Paycheck the district their feedback andmore questions. Incountry the after last and two we will emerge outis of pandemic than ever. own temporary sacrifices for themany greater good of the ofeta their meltdown 1986. Some experts believe that event, theaccess Star Wars this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services and celebrations our and asking when we caninstart getting back This all new to Americans, and itwe is not normal. Not in anyand way,hear ders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe. But should also still continue and many more church services more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not do so on the basis of ever-evolving models, Protection Program from his community bank, he told me all to work with us weeks, my office has reached out to over 100,000 North Carolinians In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity are over. ly $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifices for the greater good of the country and are conspiracy theorists or are people who shape, or form. So while we should remain vigilant and stay safe, at nught types questions get asked, there is helping to askon questions about the data, because while reasonable after ourinown to of lock down further. especially assaved. statistics roll in that look everyone like thewere lower-end model and many employees couldspirit, stay the payroll and 200 jobs were byso-called phone. If you not able to join this call as or Passover, have additional neighbors neighbors. Istay-at-home wish Easter, as well a joyous to immediately equipment 1989. Inthose this same I continue to we be inspired by stories ofalso have humanity are over.celebrating y get themselves ormore others sick. the same time shouldn’t get comfortable withan this “new ncy among some people to treat measures are understandable, they should expiration date. We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number of deaths divided by estimates in terms of death and the upper-end estimates in terms temporary These are just a few examples of how this program is helping questions, you can always reach out to me through one of my offices In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all continue to keep faith, practice after our own 5 billion bywhen Perhaps COVID-19 China’sneighbors. Chernobyl. fund thiswe neighbors helping I wish everyone celebrating Easter, as well as Passover, a joyous ning government at all levels become aisbad normal.” nd asking can start getting back This isthe alland newplastic to Americans, and itshields isdamage. not for normal. Notnecessary in any way, atenumber Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 he of identified COVID-19 cases — but both numerator of economic We need transparency and honesty from our people in our region. Unfortunately, this popular and crucial or through my website, which is updated daily with important money to buy a 3-D printer to make face safety guidelines and remain confident that we will sacrifices are Senators inwere Washington are already talking possibility temporary In Concord, a shape, high school senior named Tanner used his vigilant own celebration pray we can all continue to keep faith, practiceget itizens living in a free society supposed Not one little bit. the essential conspiracy theorists or are people who or form. Soabout while we should remain and to stay safe,what at and nd the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many scientific experts — we need know they know, what they program ran out of money last week after Nancy Pelosi and Chuck information about coronavirus efforts. Please visit https:// health care workers out of his own home. through this together. ntthemselves in China of China forgiving trillion insame debt we owe them as to shields get over. money$1.2 to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to one make face for this so-called necessary safety guidelines andresponse remain confident that we will get sacrifices are teople or others sick. the time we shouldn’t getway comfortable with “new program. have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources suggest the don’t and when they hope to know what they don’t. Schumer refused to work with Republicans in Congress and hudson.house.gov/coronavirus for the latest information. ufacturing China to “pay” for the damage they have caused the US. Don’t hold your health care workers out of his own home. through this together. go along in all this, of course, is my family. I’m Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah government at all levels become a badthat normal.” over. umber been overestimated, given classification for cause We’re grown-ups,With and we’re willing to follow their advice. President Trump to pass additional funding for the Just remember, we are going But to get through this and our country lion in has breath waiting a Chinese “Jubilee” tolittle but ask your elected ingliving the virus, and I’m worried Ifor will. After and is ahappen regular contributor to program. RedState and Legal Insurrection. ns in a free society were supposed Not one bit. f death, particularly among elderly patients, can be variable. Some they need to start answering serious questions, or they will fall prey 22 million Americans losing their job over the past month, this is not will reopen soon. Until then, keep practicing social distancing, stay nue hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for irusis(swine flu) representatives during the 2009topandemic, ources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all other American a time to play political games. As I remain focused on common sense at home unless you have to go out, and take this time to tell your etra areprecautions, now this disaster. because all of this brings up Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah ong in all this, of course, is my family. I’msupport many people are dying at home. institutions seem deeply prone. solutions to families, workers and small businesses, I’m friends and family how much they mean to you. mies as in the is about timenot they expected operatecontributor as responsible citizens of of a painful experience I’d prefer to are repeat. the virus, and I’m It worried I will. 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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT BASEBALL

A’s minor league manager off ventilator Oakland Oakland Athletics minor league manager Webster Garrison has resumed breathing completely on his own for the first time in more than three weeks and no longer requires a ventilator as he fights the coronavirus, his fiancee said Thursday. Garrison is hospitalized in his home state of Louisiana. Garrison managed the Class A Stockton Ports last season, and he is scheduled to manage in the rookie level Arizona League this year. He played 129 games with the Kinston Blue Jays of the Carolina League in 1985 and played five major league games with the A’s in 1996.

NFL

Jaguars RB Fournette reportedly on trade block Jacksonville, Fla. The Jacksonville Jaguars are ready to move on from running back Leonard Fournette. A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that the Jaguars are actively looking to trade the fourth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. Fournette, 25, is entering the final year of his rookie contract and is due to make $4.17 million in 2020. If he stays in Jacksonville, he would count $8.64 million against Jacksonville’s salary cap. The Jaguars would take on $4.47 million in dead money by trading him.

AUTO RACING

Pagenaud beats Penske teammates to win another virtual race Charlotte Simon Pagenaud and Team Penske won a seconds straight IndyCar virtual race Saturday, taking the victory on a simulated Twin Ring Motegi in Japan. Pagenaud, the reigning real-life Indianapolis 500 winner, benefited when teammates Will Power and Scott McLaughlin were racing each other for the lead when they came upon the lapped car of Oliver Askew that caused Power to touch McLaughlin’s car, sending his car spinning into the wall and out of contention. Pagenaud then raced Power wheel-to-wheel and the cars appeared to touch before Pagenaud took the lead. He still had to hold off Scott Dixon’s last-lap attempt to pass him for the win.

Finchem elected World Golf Hall of Fame The longtime PGA Tour commissioner will be inducted in a class that includes Tiger Woods By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press TIM FINCHEM, who expanded the PGA Tour’s footprint around the world and negotiated TV contracts that more than tripled prize money during his two decades as commissioner, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame. Finchem was elected through the contributor category and will become the ninth administrator to be inducted, joining predecessor Deane Beman. “It is the greatest honor to be elected to join golf’s most legendary players and contributors in the World Golf Hall of Fame,” Finchem said. “I am especially proud to stand alongside one of the world’s all-time greats, Tiger Woods, in the Class of 2021 and look forward to what will be an exciting year ahead.” Marion Hollins, one of the leading women in golf a century ago, also was elected as a contributor. Finchem being inducted in the same class as Woods is only fitting. Woods joined the PGA Tour in 1996 after two years at Stanford and brought enormous attention to himself and to the tour. Along with winning twice in seven starts, Woods won the Masters in his first attempt as a pro by setting 20 records, including a 12-shot victory that set off the first wave of “Tigermania.” Finchem seized on it. He was in the middle of negotiating a new network television contract, and prize money spiked. More deals followed in 2001, 2006 and 2012. PGA Tour prize money

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In this July 1, 2009 photo, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem laughs during opening ceremonies for the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. went from under $100 million on three tours in 1994 when Finchem was appointed commissioner to more than $400 million over six tours when he retired at the end of 2016. It wasn’t just money, however. Finchem created The First Tee program shortly after Woods won the Masters. Turning back Greg Norman’s proposal for a world tour, Finchem came up with the World Golf Championships series in 1999 that led to three events for players from the leading six tours around the world. He also took advantage of a growing class of international players from outside Eu-

rope — Norman, Nick Price, Ernie Els, Vijay Singh among those — by starting the Presidents Cup in 1994. At the heart of his work was making the PGA Tour logo recognizable around the world, a symbol of strength. The PGA Tour had a developmental circuit now called the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour Champions for players 50 and older. Now it has circuits in Canada (Mackenzie Tour), Latin America and China. “Tim Finchem’s vision and leadership have made an indelible impact on the game of golf over the

past 25 years,” said Jay Monahan, who Finchem groomed as his successor. Monahan delivered the news to Finchem during The Players Championship, two days before golf joined so many other sports in shutting down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of Finchem’s best work came during tough times. He kept the PGA Tour fully sponsored during the recession in 2008 and kept prize money from shrinking as a show of strength. The Hall of Fame is expected to announce a fourth inductee later this week.

How ‘The Last Dance’ started with a simple idea in 1997 The 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1997-97 Chicago Bulls premiered Sunday By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press THE YEAR WAS 1997. Andy Thompson had an idea. Adam Silver liked his plan. Neither had any clue what they concocted. The ESPN and Netflix documentary “The Last Dance” — the story based around Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls — premieres Sunday night with the first two episodes of the 10-part series. And the images from that season exist because of the notion that Thompson had and Silver, now the NBA commissioner but then the person in charge of NBA Entertainment, helped arrange.

Thompson, who already had been working at NBA Entertainment for about a decade, suggested embedding a crew with the Bulls. Silver made some phone calls. They were off and running. “It’s almost hard to understate how famous Michael was and how popular this Bulls team was,” Silver told The Associated Press. “And so, Andy’s view was, ‘We need to find a way to capture this team in its glory.’ And there were no such things as multi-part documentaries on sports on television back then.” But there had been some examples of the storytelling that Thompson — the brother of former NBA player Mychal Thompson, the uncle of Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson — was pitching to Silver. Specifically, Thompson was moved by the tale of the 1986-87 Edmonton Oilers, a video called “The Boys On The Bus,” which chronicled a season

with Wayne Gretzky and the eventual Stanley Cup champions. “No one in the NBA had ever done this,” Andy Thompson said. “And you’re not just doing this with a run of the mill NBA team. You’re doing this with the greatest player in the history of the game in Michael Jordan, who was very protective of his image and his privacy.” He got to know Jordan a bit while working at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. He had worked closely with Ahmad Rashad, a Jordan confidant, through “NBA Inside Stuff,” a show Rashad hosted. And Andy Thompson knew Jordan once idolized his brother, so much so that he wore puka shell necklaces and once scribbled his name on a notebook as “Mychal Jordan” until his mother saw it and wasn’t pleased. “Because of his respect and admiration for my brother, obviously, Michael and I connected,” Andy Thompson said.

Silver approached Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf first, then had to convince then-coach Phil Jackson — who also agreed, albeit with some conditions that if he didn’t want the crew around at certain times, they would give him space. And in the end, Jordan had to sign off as well. Thompson’s crew shot hundreds of hours of film, and nearly a quarter-century later, the big moment has finally arrived. “We made it happen, but I would only say in all seriousness, this would not have happened if we had a specific project budget,” Silver said. “We would have had a zero under revenue and a large number under expense. I think it was more a gut feeling we had that it was our obligation to do this and we would spend what was necessary to capture what we knew was one of the greatest athletes and one of the greatest teams of all time.”

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Bobby Winkles, former Arizona St baseball coach, dies at 90 Tempe, Ariz. Bobby Winkles, the baseball coach who built Arizona State into a national power from scratch and went on to manage and coach in the majors, died Friday. He was 90. Winkles fielded the Sun Devils’ first varsity squad in 1959 and won national titles in 1965, 1967 and 1969. He went 524-173 in 13 years in Tempe. Winkles was a charter member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame and coached stars such as Reggie Jackson. Winkles went on to manage four years in the majors, going 170-213 in stints with the California Angeles and Oakland Athletics from 1973-78.

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From left: Ron Harper, Dennis Rodman, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan and coach Phil Jackson are joined on stage by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, second from right, during a citywide rally on June 16, 1998, in Chicago to celebrate the Bulls; sixth NBA championship.

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‘The Last Dance’ Former North Stanly director talks project graduate named on Jordan’s Bulls 2019 SAC ScholarAthlete of the Year The 10-part documentary will air over five Sundays Senior Luke Gibson plays basketball at Newberry By Tim Reynolds College and is an The Associated Press accounting major

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Pato O’Ward, foreground, heads into a turn during the opening lap of the American Red Cross Grand Prix virtual IndyCar race at Watkins Glen International.

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Virtual racing drama dulls shine HBCU NFL hopefuls after on popular NASCAR adjust platform canceled pro days, combine North Carolina A&T receiver Elijah Bell, pictured in 2017 against North Carolina Central, is among the HBCU draft hopefuls who was affected by the canceled events due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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After two weeks of controversy, the iRacing alternative got back on track The weekend coronavirus pandemic this has made it even harder for under-the-radar players By Jenna Fryer to make an impression on The Associated Press teams

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JASON HEHIR was a kid in the stands in Boston Garden on April 20, 1986, the day that By Jesse Deal Michael Jordan scored a playoff-record 63 Stanly points. County Journal It was a Christmas gift from his father, who ALBEMARLE — “Two For tickets the second stuck a note promising to the Air straight year, ain former North Stanly Com- seaJordan Show” his stocking that holiday et has named South Atson. It’sbeen a gift Hehirthe will2019-20 never forlantic Conference men’s basketball get, though his current seat for Scholar-Athlete of the Year. another Jordan show of sorts is Luke Gibson, a senior accounting major considerably better. “I wouldn’t at Hehir Newberry College and Albemarle nais the director of the call tive, theproduction honor — an award heit a ESPNwas andgiven Netflix “The also year —documenafter he garnered challenge. I Lastreceived Dance,” last a 10-part the vote tally April by the19SAC’s taryhighest series that debuts and Faculwould ty Athletic Representatives Committee on call it tells the story of Jordan’s final ChiApril 15. cago Bulls season in 1997-98 that a privilege.” Last month, wastitle. named to culminated in a Gibson sixth NBA the 2019-20 Google Hehir’s task: Take 10,000Cloud hours Academic of Jason Hehir, All-American Teamadd as ainterviews third-team selecarchived footage, tion men’s basketball, holding sec- of “The withfor more than 100 people, and thedirector ond-highest grade turn it into about 8½ point hours of tele- Last Dance” average vision. (3.97) off all selections. He was also award“I wouldn’t call it a challenge,” ed 2020 Google Cloud AcHehir said. “I would call it a privilege.” In all four ademic All-District First The series was moved up two months to proTeam honors. years with new vide content-starved fans with something addition being to In watch duringtothe coronavirus pandemic. named to the dean’s planning list thetoteam, ESPN was originally release the each semester in at NewberGibsonwith what documentary June, coinciding ry, Gibson a three-time would haveisbeen this season’s increased NBA Finals. SAC It Commissioner’s will run over fiveHonSundays ending May 17, season or Roll selection, a College with two one-hour broadcastshis each week. Sports Information Direc“I’m happy if we can bring apoint little bit of light to total, tors of in America Academpeople a dark time here,” Hehir said. “Sports minutes ic honoree are All-America such an indelible part of our cultural fabric and a CoSIDA per gamehole in and lacking thatAcademic ... there’s a significant All-District pick. The feel, Ac- the escape that peoenjoyment that people 3-point ademic All-America pro-life and ple can feel from everyday that sports brings gram receives financial percentage. us.” support from the launch NCAA has only added to a The accelerated Division II national hectic time for Hehirgoverand his team. nance structure. There has been much anticipation about the On the court, Gibson is coming offcame his todocumentary, which in Hehir’s mind best season a guard Newberry gether muchasfaster thanfor such a projectColusually lege, does.where he led his conference in 3-point shooting percentage (46.3%) andarchival put up doc“Normally, to do an hourlong career-high numbers points, 2.5 re-about umentary from start ofto11.9 finish, it takes bounds and 2.3 perof game. a year from the assists inception the idea to the reHe played in all for the Wolves it all search to doing all29 thegames shooting to getting in 2019-20 while notching career-high together, storyboarding it aout, mapping of it out, 23 pointsgetting in his final season. editing, notesgame back,ofitthe takes about a In all four years thedoing team,10 Gibson in- And year,” Hehir said.with “We’re of those. creased season point total, minutes we had ahis little bit over two years to do it per so we’re game and 3-pointatpercentage. already working five times our normal rate.” Another factor further that thecomplicates SAC’s Faculty The pandemic matters. Athletic Representatives Committee takes Hehir and his team are finishing things up while into consideration for the Scholar-Athlete separated, connecting through Zoom meetings of Year in award is theatdemonstration of to butthe largely isolation their own laptops community service, get the last pieces of an thearea storywhere readyGibson to air. hasThe also excelled during collegiate ex-1997documentary goes his deeper than just perience. 98, though that season is the overriding theme. He has served as a referee-coach for basIt also serves as a retrospective of Jordan’s the Lawlife, Enforcement & Youth ketball from his college daysBasketball at North CaroTournament, volunteered with the Special lina through his rise atop the NBA. Olympics basketball teams in Newberry Hehir knows there is an ongoing buildup and and has dedicated time tothe assisting at the and anticipation surrounding documentary, Newberry Academy Spanish still feels nervousness. He metAcademy. with Jordan sevWith award, Gibson eral timeshis overlatest the course of the project,has includbecome first interviews two-time that Academing three the sit-down are part of ic theAll-American documentary.selection for Newberry’s men’s basketball as well theit29th over-as we “I hope that people willaslike as much all selection for Newberry. did,” Hehir said.

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SENT HOME from college because of the coronavirus outbreak, Carter Oselett is back in his childBy Adrian Sainz hood bedroom,Press paying rent on an The Associated empty apartment near campus and occasionallyTenn. fighting—with his MEMPHIS, Faced parents the television remote. with theover threat of overburdened He’s handling the grocery shophospitals, states across the country ping for an aunt recovering from are converting convention centers, COVID-19 and watching his mom, sports facilities and performance an optician, try to treatment file for unemspaces into backup sites ployment benefits. for coronavirus patients. His summer at a TenuniWhat some program Memphis, versity in Brazil has canceled nesse, residents don’tbeen get is why in and sure he will graduate theirhe’s city,not a shopping center in the from Michigan State University in middle of a predominantly black, December planned. And to top low-incomeasresidential neighborit off, has he turned 21 quarantined at hood been chosen. home folks. Citywith andhis state officials are con“So much Oselett drycerned that fun,” an influx of said patients ly from his family home Mafrom Memphis, as well as in nearby comb, about Arkansas 100 milesand fromrural his Mississippi, East campus. “I got hospito buy west Lansing Tennessee, will strain atals. bottle of wine our local groTheir fearsfrom are echoed across cer, that was my big night.” the and country: Governors, mayors Forhealth many of the nearly 2 million and experts in numerous people earn U.S. bachstates expected are also toresearching and elor’s degrees makeshift in 2020, the panconstructing medical demic has taken away their housfacilities. ing,Infriends and City, long-held dreams New York they’re turnof ceremony. Some ingatograduation the Javits Center convention college jolted site; in seniors Chicago,have the been McCormick into “adulting” as they Placeinstant Convention Center; andtry in to support or AmerstrugSandy, Utah,themselves the Mountain gling family members. For othica Expo Center. ers,The it’s adulthood their U.S. Armydelayed, Corps ofasEngipost-college work, travel or internneers has been scouting locations ship plans are nixed a dispiritin Tennessee, and for officials here ing back home. havemove compiled a list of 35 possinearly all ofThey themhaven’t fear their bleAnd backup sites. refirst steps into adulthood willBill be leased the whole list, but Gov. clouded by a global recession. University of Iowa psychologist

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In this Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, Anali Reyes Vazquez a senior at Rutgers University–Camden senior poses for a photograph in This Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, shows Gateway Shopping Center Barrington, in Memphis,N.J. Tenn. Barry Schreier advises students to Lee has disclosed a few: the Muhold on to their goals, even if they sic City Center in Nashville, the have to adjust their timelines. And Chattanooga Convention Center, he they should thesays Knoxville Expo expect Center to — cyall cle through the stages of grief: desites away from residential neighnial, anger and depression among borhoods. them. The Gateway Shopping Cenis a ladder to climb ter“Adulting in the Nutbush neighborhood for a lot of our a good of Memphis is students different.on The cenday. And these are Acertainly not ter features a Save Lot grocery good said Schreier, commustore,days,” a Rent-A-Center, a Faminications the Assoly Dollar, chairman a beauty of supply shop, ciation for University and College Counseling Center Directors.

Lopez, a senior at theother Unia Axel Chinese restaurant and versity of California, Los Angeles, businesses. and sports aphotographer at The Locating treatment center for Daily Bruin, hoped take a poslast coronavirus patientsto there walk through the newsroom bees two problems, residents say: fore moving to Utah expose this summer It could potentially them for a paralegal job. He’s now quarto the virus amid concerns that antined in contracting his off-campus apartblacks are COVID-19 ment, taking hisand finalitterm online. at higher rates; could force The job offer never someexpected of the stores they rely came. on to “It’s a very uncertain time, conclose. sidering justresident a couple of commumonths Nutbush and ago, it seemed there was a surplus of jobs available,” he said.

nity volunteer Homer Osborne said he understands the need to help coronavirus patients, but he questions why officials chose Gateway. A first-generation stu“There are a lot of college poor people dent whoneighborhood accompanied his in this thatmother come growing as she houses here and up shop,” saidcleaned Osborne, who in Los Angeles, Lopez had dreams was buying food at the center for of hugging his mom at graduation a home delivery service he’s proand telling her: was all viding during the“Yeah, virus it outbreak. worth “Peopleit.”won’t want to come over UCLA here. It’s announced just goingitstoJune killcomthis mencement would be held online, area.” then after a backHe reconsidered also cited a widespread fear lash. Theunnecessarily university hasexposed promised of being to to thehold virus.an in-person celebration later. “All around, people are scared,” he“Even said. though we’re going to have it infears the are nextnot year, I feel it Their unfounded. won’t be majority-black the same,” he said. In this city along far from Lopez, VictotheNot Mississippi River, lawmakers ria is back in have her famandArévalo community leaders been ily’s smallthetwo-bedroom apartsounding alarm over what they ment west Los Angeles, where see asin a disturbing trend of the vithe bunk beds she Americans shares withatana rus killing African older highersister rate. frame her appearance in Nutbush online classes. She had hoped resident Patricia Harto at her aloud apartment nearris stay wondered if city at officials by Loyola Marymount University, were “trying to contaminate” the where she’s studying communicaneighborhood. tions, but knew family Activist Earle her Fisher, an needAfried refund she’d get if she left canthe American Memphis pastor, — her stepfather furloughed understands the was anxiety. “This from warehouse job. is an his honest and reasonable conIn and the blink of an eye, Arévalo cern skepticism,” Fisher said. lost her emotional “I think it’s par for“safe the space,” course her for paid news internship and her blackTV people to be righteously final months with college friends. skeptical of governmental interAt first, that she lashed on social vention did notout consult with media. Butthe after a fewfirst.” weeks back people on ground home, she’s come to the accept thechief sitDoug McGowen, city’s uation and officer, the tough road operating said theahead. Gate“I site know going to be a belot way wasit’s being considered harder would haveaccombeen. cause itthan couldit potentially I’m justhundreds trying mentally to premodate of beds. He said pare myself,” said Arévalo, 22, who if it were converted to a treatment moved to the U.S. El Salvasite, it would hold from only mildly ill dor as a child. “There’s good days coronavirus patients who could be and bad days. It fluctuates.” For health sciences major Anali

quickly transported to a hospital should their conditions worsen. Memphis officials said the Gateway site was put on the list in response to a request from the state’s Reyes Vazquez, the turcoronavirus team to sweeping identify large, moil has buildings brought setbacks her available where an— alterparents are out facility of workcould — butbealso nate treatment loacated. glimmer of opportunity. The seniorspace at Rut“The21-year-old task of finding to gers University shelter hundredsinofCamden, potentialNew paJersey, a job tients isplanned not one to of find choice but and nestart a part-time master’s cessity,” the officials said in adegree stateprogram come June. Now, she’s ment. holding off on signing a new lease For Nutbush residents, their in case needs to move fear of she contracting the home virus to is New Brunswick. matched with the worry that they Onelose of her finalthat classes, could stores are though, vital to is on medicalOfficials translating, thea course neighborhood. hawhich could land close a posiven’t said if help storesher would if tion amid thefacility pandemic serving the Gateway was opened. Spanish-speaking patients. If they did, shopping would be“There aredifficult people for in need,” she come more residents, said, “evenforthough it isare a old scary especially those who or thought.” have no means of transportation Michigan, Oselett to Back storesinlocated farther away.finds his“For bedroom “a who little don’t smaller thana people have Icar, remember what doit.” they do?” asked Harspends his time ris,He who spoke some to TheofAssociated working forlugging a California-based Press while a bottle of denonprofit Rise, tergent, a called package of pairing bottled colwalege students in crisis beter and other who itemsare from the Save cause shutdowns witha A Lot of to campus her car. She noted that emergency funding. grocery store recently closed near which has have herHis houseclasses, and she already to switched to pass/fail travel farther to get tograding, Gateway.involve a mix we of posted assignments “When do things, we’ve and videoconferencing. got to consider the people in the “Everyone has adaptneighborhood,” shesort said.of “We don’t ed to it, it just feel as need to but make the doesn’t neighborhood worthwhile,” worse than it Oselett alreadysaid. is.” “No one wants to worry U.S. Rep. Steve about Cohen,learning a Memright now.” phis Democrat, said the decision Othermake times, he and his parents doesn’t sense. squabble over what watch on “I’m sure there areto other places television. andand histhey father like that wouldHe work, should “Schitt’s Creek.” mother not go so have used thoseHis rather than much. into a residential neighborhood,” “We said. almost have too much time Cohen to watch TV and argue about it,” he said.

OPEC, oil nations agree Lawsuit cites virus to to nearly 10M barrel cut stop touch-screen voting The Associated Press ByDUBAI, Gary D. Robertson United Arab EmirThe ates Associated — OPEC, Press Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday RALEIGH — The threatproof finalized an unprecedented hand-to-hand contamination duction cut of nearly 10 million from theornew coronavirus while barrels, a 10th of global supply, voting arguments in a in hopesentered of boosting crashing priclawsuit to stop the use of es amid seeking the coronavirus pandemic touch-screen ballot-marking and a price war, officials said. machines Northbe Carolina. “Thisincould the largest reLawyers for four North Caroduction in production from OPEC lina voters and the state NAACP for perhaps a decade, maybe lonlargely cited conger,” said U.S.constitutional Energy Secretary cerns in the lawsuit announced Dan Brouillette, who credited Wednesday in asking that perthe President Donald Trump’s equipment from the largsonal involvement innation’s getting duelest manufacturer ing voting partiesmachine to the table and helpbe future ing barred to endfrom a price warelections. between About 20 ofand North Carolina’s Saudi Arabia Russia. 100Oil counties havecollapsed the machines, prices have as the which were used one COVID-19 way or ancoronavirus andinthe other lasthave month’s primary illnessduring it causes largely haltelections. ed global travel and slowed down But the plaintiffs also said usother energy-chugging sectors ing machines are such touch-screen as manufacturing. It has inherently hazardous to use devastated the oil industry in during COVID-19 crisis,more bethe U.S.,the which now pumps cause and poll country. workers are crude voters than any other smudging with fingers But somescreens producers have been and hands that supply. could transmit reluctant to ease The carthe virusother to unsuspecting tel and nations on people. Sunday Cleaning the Mexico ExpressVote maagreed to allow to cut only chines — barrels createdaby Election Sys100,000 month, a sticktems & Software targeted in ing point for an and accord initially the lawsuit — after aevery vote, reached Friday marathon would create longbetween lines at 23 voting video conference nasites, said. An agreed ES&S tions. the The lawsuit nations together memo month recommended to cut last 9.7 million barrels a day poll workersMay should use lint-free throughout and June. cloths with isopropyl alcohol or The group reached the deal just prepared alcohol wipes to clean hours before Asian markets rescreens at least 30 as seconds to opened for Monday and internadisinfect them. tional benchmark Brent crude “COVID-19 can $31 survive on traded at just over a barrel plastic screens,” shale said John Powand American producers ers, an attorney for the Lawyers’ struggle. Committee forbyCivil Rights UnVideo aired the Saudi-owned der Law, which is helping represatellite channel Al-Arabiya sent the the plaintiffs. risk showed moment“There’s that Saudi if this (cleaning) doesn’t happen Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz

bin Salman, a son of King Salman, assented to the deal. right eachwith time. poll work“I go theBoth consent, so I ers and the voters can said, get infected.” agree,” prince chuckling, The litigation, Powers drawing a round ofwhich applause from said mailed thosewas on being the video call.Wednesday to But court, rather in perit had notthan beenfiled smiles and son, because of health laughs for weeks afterconcerns, the soalso as states how calledcomes OPEC+ groupfigure of OPEC to conduct high-stakes elections members and other nations failed this fall should thean new coronain March to reach agreement virus persist. Acuts, hintsending of the chalon production priclenges came Saudi last week with Wises tumbling. Arabia sharply consin’s marked by long criticizedprimary, Russia days earlier over lines and of what atitprecincts described asa massive comments influx mail-in ballots. criticalof of the kingdom, which Concerns the use touchfinds itself over trying to ofappease screen intensified Trump,machines a longtimehave OPEC critic. since hackers tried to had access U.S. Even U.S. senators warned election systems 2016. study Saudi Arabia toinfind a Away to released in 2018 the combined boost prices as by American shale National Science, firms faceAcademies far-higher of production Engineering and troops Medicine costs. American hadurged been that elections human-readdeployed to theuse kingdom for the able ballots people can first paper time since thethat Sept. 11, 2001, inspect attacks and overrecount. concerns of Iranisafety argument provides anThe retaliation amid regional tencritics sions. of these ES&S machines, who focus largely security “They’ve spent onover the and last hacking concerns, line of month waging waranother on American attack. oil producers while we are defendto ing“Voters theirs. are Thisessentially is not howgoing friends be forced to choose their treat friends,” saidbetween Sen. Kevin lives andatheir health and Cramer, Republican fromvoting,” North said Courtney with the Dakota, beforeHostetler the OPEC+ deal. group Speech for People and U.S.Free producers have already another plaintiffs’ lawyer. been reducing output. The AmerOtherwise, theInstitute plaintiffslaudsay ican Petroleum the public can’t be confident that ed Sunday’s global pact, saying it the of the voters’ preferred willnames help get other nations’ statecandidates that theto follow machine owned oil production the prints on the ballot that will are correlead of U.S. producers tryspond with bar code data that’s ing to adjust to plunging demand. also printed and by adid sepaBrouillette saidtallied the U.S. not rate machine.of its own makecounting commitments “The ExpressVote is anable inseproduction cuts, but was to cure, unverifiable show unreliable, the obvious and — that plunging machine that threatens integdemand because of the the pandemrity North Carolina’s elections,” ic is of expected to slash U.S. oil prothe lawsuit reads. duction. Few if any related to Iranian Oil problems Minister Bijan Zanactual were ganeh machine also told operations state television

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In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of the Group of 20 energy ministers at his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate a response to plummeting oil prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due to the pandemic. ELISE AMENDOLA | AP PHOTO

In this March Saudi 17, 2020, file photo Drago her sticker after she voted in the Florida praise. the deal butshows its president, Andrés that Kuwait, Arabia and Fran presidential primary in Cape Coral,Manuel Fla. López Obrador, had said “The pure size of the cut is unthe United Arab Emirates would cut another 2 million barrels of Friday that he had agreed with precedented, but, then again, so oil a day between them atop the Trump that the U.S. will compen- is the impact the coronavirus is by thesaid ExpressVote held Mexico with them and require reported lastThe month. seven being having stands on demand,” Mohamsate what cannot add to “ES&S OPEC+ deal. three In countries she wrote. ballots. counties, including the one sur- paper med Ghulam, an energy analyst at the proposed cuts.The machines 100%,” did not immediately acknowledge David Becker, next a western rounding Charlotte, ExpressJames.head of the Cen“Thebebig Oilused Dealinwith OPEC Raymond the cut themselves, though Zan- could for Ghulam Electionand Innovation & ReRepublican con- terBut Vote is now pri- North others worried Plus is Carolina done. This will save hunganehequipment attended the videothe confersaid that the primary of runoff in jobs late search, mary it may not be Wednesday enough. dreds of thousands energy ence. voting machine in election gressional dayOfficials precincts. countiescuts use June. “This was is at “very least adisappointing” temporary rein the United States,” Trump said lawsuit saidOther other planned challenges machines JoshtoStein’s them earlyinin-person or in Attorney lief for theitenergy industry and for a tweet. “IGeneral would like thank because wouldfor stand the deal, voting meaning improve voter This participation which represents the State for with disabilities. the global economy. industry and congratulate President Pu- that an people 8-million-barrel-per-day cut office, more of Elections —Salman a defenVoters other the counties is toocan big provide to be let to fail accessibiland the altin of Russia and King of and from July in through end ofthat the Board thanshowed paper ballots. with county election ity use hand-marked papercutballiance responsibility with Saudialong Arabia.” year and a 6-million-barrel for dant Becker, a former Justice the lawsuit said it this lots can feel confident agreement,” said U.S. Per Magnus The in Kremlin said — President 16 months beginning in that 2021.their boards attorreviewing filing. Katina choices count,the therebalanclawsuit was Nysveen, the voting head ofrights analysis at Vladimir Putinthe held a joint call Department “This will enable said that “Even although North a spokeswoman for SalNe- ney, says declaring the and machines’ Rystad Energy. though the with Trump and Saudi King ing ofinthe oil markets the ex- Granger, to rampthan up ES&S, whichof is not use violate equalofprotection productionwill cutsneed are smaller man to express support the Carolina pected rebound prices by and $15 braska-based this year, transdefendant, saidPutin the lawsuit in- mail-in fair-election provisions in said the adeal. what theballoting market needed and only It also said spoke sepper barrel in the short term,” thestock pollsbuilding with paper North Carolinafrom Constitution. postponeatthe conarately false with claims Trumpabout aboutcompathe oil actions a statement Nigeria’s The oil cludes preferred in worst the lawsuit products that have plaintiffs straintsasproblem, the is for market and other issues.been used ballots ministry. want a judge to perma- ny risks for infection. nently blockhad state elections from successfully now carry avoided.” Analysts across offeredthe country. cautious also Mexico initially blocked

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hina: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 Kong flu,”to1977 markets and outlets. If the U.S. were not the most reserve nd currency Th is China’s Metrics anddollar Evaluation model oft citedAccording by members of seasons the w yet” if the testing and contact tracing, or with the real process of“Hong returning back normalcy. transparency tooriginated the University ofhealth, Washington Institute for Health andfinancial honesty ForProvince me, my faith isthe anfrom important part o Easter government Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill,There senior opinion editor is 100% agreement, outside of China, that in Wuhan probably the complete biowarfare lab run by the communist Chinese army. toemergency bring China into the civilized world ofdepreciation. 21st century hygiene must do this out ofCOVID-19 an abundance of caution.” more people, sittin e 2002 outbreak. There is evidenceworks that the currency, we would not be able to fund any of these transparency Accor is China’s Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and No. The government for us, and we have the right to ask those Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the ways andSARS decisions through making. As I celebrated Easter with my fa and honesty Chernobyl. from our originated in regulation Wuhan Province probably from the completely has pay forblame their ways decision unregulated and unsanitary wetaberrant markets. Some believe it cN provide a China Until adopts rigorous verifiable policing and of and fair trade. communist never take the at alloflevels It will need toTotalitarian be explained in detail toregimes the people ofto this state who when theyand can get bac flu” pandemic also itsAnd origins inChina China. measures without immediate fear rampant inflation and currency through Metr senior opinionquestions. editor peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of dl,sh as to the Which raises the third question: What ex the longer stay-at-home orders are in place all over the Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at and honesty macy has obviously not had worked Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lo Chernobyl. Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinio unregulated and unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obvious from our biowarfare lab run by the communist Chinese army. their food safety and health protocols, American business has no other are or express sincere regretjobless and remorse, because is not what scientific experts being told to remain and at home an undetermined answers. message offor that become a by reement, outsidehealth, of China, thatthe COVID-19 depreciation. not worked Trum ventilators nearly 13,000 and the numberpeak of overall deaths nes like “we we capable of rolling tens millions of t country, and stricter some of them get in manufacturing states, such as Michigan, outbreak was revised down byrigorous over 120,000, the number of comfo of 21st century hygiene affliction, so that weout may be able to from our biowarfare lab run by the communist Chinese army. tobywe bring China into the civilized world ofof 21st century Until China adopts verifiable policing regul choice than to build redundant plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of every weakness scientific experts amount of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases Leaders atand thepeak locah — we need to hope that will n Province probably from the completely China has to payanxious for theirabout aberrant ways and 12,000. decisions through alth, hygiene bad thing? August by nearly months — and compelling people to take tes thethe more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by regimes never take blame affliction, with the comfort which we ours UntilasChina rigorous verifiable policing and regulation of pushing fair trade. Totalitarian communist never theirand food safety and American scientific experts for national security safety reasons as well supplyadopts and delivery they adversaries and keep until they win orhealth the protocols, are reliable. can beregimes with business those ansth —find we need to know what they sanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a and economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously notin worked once again enjoy ke the blame venti Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key s state who virus is transmittable while carriers are asy when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand August by nearly 12,000. because that is not what God.” Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 22, 2020 That is what their food safety Journal and healthfor protocols, American business has nowhat otherthe or express sincere regret remorse, because thatelsew is n choice than buildand redundant plants reliability concerns. adversaries push back. Stanly County Wednesday, April 15, 2020 To know date, what I’ve gone along with state hasto asked then andmanufacturing with details that give — we need tofor they by the communist Chinese army. to bring China the civilized world ofthat 21stwill century hygiene what Augu know,into what they questions allowhealth, the economy to elsewhere reopen. create a contact tracing system 330 mill answers. Here’s the problem: Wesecurity still don’t know the answers to theaskey sporting events, etermined advantage of every weakness If and you are celebrating Easter season choice than to build redundant manufacturing plants purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of an ev for national safety reasons asthe well supply The most direct way to make China “pay” for this disaster is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such as the Chernobyl free citizens mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all conti know what they ts rigorous verifiable policing of levelsand fair be trade. Totalitarian communist regimes the blame ry weakness First, what is thenever true take coronavirus fatalityand rate? Thisconcerts, question isfind ands of cases are we willing tomessage submit ourselves tothey one?He atand theregulation local and state should as forthcoming as they know, what they questions that will allow the economy tothis reopen. ing until they win orLeaders the don’t and reflect on and be comforted, family for when national security and safety reasons as well as supply delivery they in adversaries and keep pushing until wi reliability concerns. 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This question isquest God’s example comfort all those in ne don’t and when they hope to reliability concerns. adversaries back. direct way tofatality make China for this disaste gatherings, production in the United There is approximately $120 program of Reagan, ledcertain directly to the of push the Soviet Union Unfortunately, when types of dissolution questions get asked, there is and to“pay” ask questions abou AMERICA’S COLLEGES are rife with back redundant manufacturing plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of every weakness Fir society were be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a nd then Americans are not going to stay home for with details that give their statements believability. important because it determines whether certain areas ought to don’t and when appens such as the Chernobyl this difficult time. Through faith and by hto The most direct way to make China “pay”hope for this is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such asm they to disaster U.S.some tax credits to source atare least half corruption. 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Authors Helen Pluckrose, James A. the sources suggest number is dramatically underestimated, sinceofenem around globe and inChina the stealing, United States, China will pay thisto virus, covered up its spread and tried tothe tell the world there were only decimal dust compared the $6 I’ve trillion+ Marshall Plan we are now this disaster. undertaking to save ourbrings own economy, of defeated China has been cheating, pirating and pillaging American Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 been trying to take extra precautions, because all of this up S. would cost U.S. Treasury $18 billion in breath waiting for aSister Chinese “Jubilee” to happen but ask we your elected Lindsay andthe Peter Boghossian say that Even more importantly, have no clueenemies how many family. I’m Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym many people are dying home. North State Journal for April 15, Toldjah 2020 operate as responsible citizens of catastrophe one way or another. 3,341 related deaths has to worldwide panic, collapse and undertaking tosecret save our own economy, not of defeated as inAmericans the It is at about time they are expected operaterate as sourc respo Emy THING IS CERTAIN; after COVID-19 virus BRUCE EURY, 44, ofthis Albemarle, PHYLLIS HILDA PAULINE VIRGINIA past. cavalier manner in which China lied about the origin of the business now for the dissipates past 30Wednesday, years. TheyThe have made no that they way too many memories ofled a painful experience I’deconomic prefer not to mean repeat. THIS WEEK, according to members of the federal government, That would that thetoAmericans fatality isand act something has gone drastically wrong over a few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is representatives to hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for sible citizens of many actually have coronavirus. 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In order to put the crisis caused by China in perspective, zero millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out of work. passed away Monday, April 13, JANE ATHENE SMITH LEMONS past. the world like any other modern nation. dgin thein globe and in the United States, China will pay for this China has most been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging virus, covered up its spread and tried toBut tellwhat the world there were only intend to replace the U.S. as the premier superpower in the world and also makes me lose sleep is how easily everyone has of the academia, especially within certain and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten suggested, even if the transmission rate is h Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 red to the $6 trillion+ Marshall Plan we are now this disaster. Eve of identified cases could be an order of magnitude lower than the 9h pandemic, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-i actually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest that the number worldwide can trace currency their 3,341 source totheir the United States over The crisiseconomic has cost the U.S. taxpayer at leastnow $2.4for trillion in added State Journal for Wednesday, April 15,pandemics 2020 2020 at his home. They BOONE SMITH RAGSDALE, HATLEY, 98, China has been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American ophe one way or another. the past 30 years. They have made no secr related deaths has led to worldwide panic, collapse and business replace the dollar as the reserve with renminbi. fields within the humanities. call ere were only the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. 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They have made no secret that rder to put the crisis caused by our China in perspective, zero intend to replace U.S. the premier superpower the millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out of97, work. these fields studies,” where ic collapse and muted — after trends can easily reverse — but real. Americans The institute’s model simply cuts off inof early Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor the world like any other modern nation. and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten ide suggested, even if the transmission rate is high. not to repeat. number of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. directly traced to China: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977 markets and financial outlets. If the U.S. dollar were not the reserve 8, 1976 in Stanly County to the of Albemarle passed from Albemarle, passed scholarship not so much based uponto the United States over intend to has replace the U.S. as the premier superpower in the world and wide pandemicsiscan trace their source replace the dollar as the reserve currency with their renmin The crisis cost the U.S. taxpayer at least $2.4 trillion in added ork. have abided by recommendations andSecondly, orders. They’ve leftwetheir jobs inpredict how many people will die in a secon heating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. The excitement was numb what are expecting terms of a second wave? veryone has “Russian flu” and the 2002 SARS outbreak. There is evidence that the currency, we would not be able to fund any of these emergency late Robert Jiles Eury and Fronail passed away this earthly passed away away on finding truth but upon attending to Perhaps replace the dollar as the reserve currency with their renminbi. 1-year history. At least four in the 20th century alone can be debt plus trillions inhome; Federal Reserve backupsocial liquidity to the in many places, in added tomore stay at they’ve practiced distancing; most important problem because experts m eon past 30 Morton years. TheyGrievance have addition mademassive no secret that they muted —April after can its easily existence reverse — but real. Americans The model cutsinflation off in early August. It does not social grievances. his Tuesday, on Thursday, Wednesday, 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic also had in China. measures immediate fear ofsimply rampant and currency y traced to China:Eury. 1957In “Asianscholars flu,” to 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977all, trends markets andorigins financial outlets. Ifmasks. the U.S. dollar without were notinstitute’s the reserve COVID-19 dity to the they’ve donned seasonal, which means we EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS e U.S. as students, the premier superpower in other the is world and bully administrators and have abided and orders.April They’ve left their jobs how many people will die in a April second father, Bruce was also preceded 14, 2020 in Tuesday, April 16, 15,wave. 2020This is the are likely to see m There 100% agreement, outside of China, that COVID-19 depreciation. an flu” and the 2002 SARS outbreak. There is evidence thatby therecommendations currency, we would notresult: be ablea to fund anyinofexpected thesepredict emergency We need the reserve The reduction hospitalization and death. in the fall. Andthat thatthe means is China’s into adhering to their thedepartments reserve currency with their renminbi. to stay at A home;probably they’ve practiced social distancing; in manyChina places,has to most important problemways because experts maintain viruswe is will be faced in deathflu” by pandemic brother, Donald Cary her home. 14, immediate 2020 at 2020 at Trinity originated in Wuhan from the completely pay forcurrency their aberrant and decisions through egency 1918 “Spanish had its in Province China. measures without fearUniversity of rampantofinflation and worldview. The worldview theyalso promote is origins transparency According to the Washington Institute for Health lockdowns for large swaths of the populatio Jason EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor they’ve donned masks. seasonal, which means we are likely to see more serious spreading Eury and sister, Patricia Gaynail private graveside service will be the age of 92. at Atrium Health Stanly in Place in Albemarle. A private Chernobyl. unregulated unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked re 100% scientific agreement, China, thatand COVID-19 depreciation. neither nor outside rigorous. Grievance ndiscurrency Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the testing and contact tracing, or with the real EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS Weof need and honesty The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. Eury. held at Cottonville Baptist Church Daughter of Felton Flave and Albemarle. family graveside service will be in the fall. And that means we will be faced with either renewed Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor biowarfare run by the communist Chinese army. bring China into through the civilized world of 21st century health, hygiene atedstudies in Wuhan Province probably from completely China has to pay for their aberrant to ways and decisions consist of disciplines such as thelab Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and Bruce was a hard working Cemetery with Rev. Adam Hatley Annie Lee Jones Smith, Athene Mrs. Ragsdale was born held forthe Mrs. Hatley. A memorial transparency According to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns forcommunist large swaths of the never population, with wide-scale from our |and RICHARD HUDSON Neal Robbins, publisher | REP. Frank Hill, senior opinion editor Until China adopts rigorous verifiable policing regulation of and fair trade. Totalitarian regimes take blame sociology, anthropology, studies, ulated and unsanitary wet gender markets. Some believe it|came out of aCOLUMN economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked RANK HILL through peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What ex COLUMN BEN SHAPIRO man who owned and operated officiating. was born on September 6, 1927 in March 17, 1923 to the late John service for the public will be held Metrics andprotocols, Evaluation model most oft cited by testing andhygiene contact tracing, or with have and honesty their food safety and health business hascivilized nomembers otherworldof orofthe express sincere regret and remorse, because thatthe is realization not what that we COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON queer studies, sexuality and critical scientific experts Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill,race senior opinion editor THEWS fare lab run by the communist Chinese army. toAmerican bring China into the 21st century health, notstudies. worked ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling out tens of millions of Eury’s Truck Stop. from Hischoice real Born July 17, 1946 in the Liberty Hill Community and Romulus and Alberta Talbert at a later date. Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work. COLUMN | REP. R than and to build redundant manufacturing elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of every weakness our —SMITH, we need totrade. EDITORIAL |AUSTIN FRANK HILL l China adopts rigorous verifiable policing regulation of was and fair Totalitarian communist regimes take the blame ASON EUGENE “GENE” ONY MONROE 72, ofplants ERLE LORRAINE ANNY PAUL ERRY FINCHER passed from alth, hygiene COLUMN | BEN SHAPIRO August by nearly 12,000. months — and compelling people love was his family and friends Albemarle, she the daughter spent herdelivery young years helping oninnever Smith. Inraises addition to herquestion: parents, Virginia Hatley born on to take te In 2017 and 2018, authors Pluckrose, peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which theLUTHER, third What exactly can we was do? 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Roycrisis Cooper stated during question what the government tells us when it’s safe to begin the Soviet Union We’ve case fatality rates —the the number ofa of deaths divided estimates in terms of death and the upper-e intersectional or postmodern leftist ATES under either shelter-in-place orvision stay-at-home fallen into place. Idebt understand the seriousness of the virus need the curve in the novel coronavirus back more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether weand they certainly will not do so onby basis of models, have abided by recommendations and orders. They’ve left their jobs predict how many people will die inever-evolving away second wave. This is the millions ofto Americans needlessly being thrown out ofalone work. Ik be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. However, as Christian, husband These stories from throughout our region working from home orthe losing aHe job, it may be difficult to “rejoice and hna. contempt. An investment tax credit of 30% on half of U.S. investment in China of China forgiving $1.2 trillion in debt we owe them as one to get his wife, Jewell Little Efird; sisters, in Stanly County to the late Pearlie death by brothers, A.D. and Teddy Denise Burleson Luther of Norwood; is survived by his wife, Eleanor In order to put the crisis caused by China in perspective, zero millions of Ameri ring 231-year history. At least four in the 20th century can be plus trillions more in Federal Reserve backup liquidity to the Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. Chinese direct investment in the U.S. is about $65 billion by circumstance, Bruce could always to uplift her by many calls, cards, Richard of Albemarle, Doug grandchildren, Christie Biles, Lemons, who survives and lives in Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy. don’t. ofstate the world would prove the problem of least $2.4 the number ofEaster identified COVID-19 casesJeremy — but both the numerator of economic damage. We need transparency al or governments, a majority of Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask muted — after all, trends can easi ought to lock down further. especially as statistics roll in that look like the lower-end model to stay at home; they’ve practiced social distancing; in many places, most important problem because experts maintain that the virus is The crisis has cost the U.S. taxpayer at trillion in added work and dad, the holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and supplies to people in be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. However, as a Christian, husband ciety simply must accept without Mary Lambert, Fannie Almond, Asbury Smith and Emmer Lee Austin; and sister, Joy Austin. sons, (Karen) Luther and Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, today, or $60 billion, applied to repatriated American manufacturing China to “pay” for the damage they have caused the US. Don’t hold your worldwide pandemics can trace their source to the United States over The crisis has cn ectly traced to China: “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977 markets financial outlets. If the U.S. dollar were notClemmons, the reserve put a smile on1957 anyone’s face. He and prayers throughout this Weaver ofdenominator Frog Pond, and Ketti Shellie Timothy Shreveport, LA. Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. treated as though wewe as aneed society simply mus rison. Senators inand Washington are already talking about theWe possibility Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper sta state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. 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And that means we will be faced with either renewed markets and financial outlets. If the U.S. dollar were not the reserve Lenten and and d Aileen Huskey; and brothers, Homer and Mick Cagle where he worked at from 6:00 pm 8:00 pm, Friday, Whitley and Gregg (Anita) Whitley; NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy While people our communitie have to thankful and hopeful for, even in the of this global tax revenue overthe few years. $18 incoronavirus lost revenue is representatives tostricter hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for directly traced to China: 1957 “Asian flu,” 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” 1977 markets and finan lightness laughter to any former with Meals ofpandemic. Terrell; grandchildren Lee Ragsdale, Matthew Wayne Leo Hatley. They hadmidst three assive 1918 “Spanish flu”to pandemic also hadspread its aorigins inavolunteer China. measures without immediate of Karen rampant inflation and currency were accepted forand publication. The Fat abillion recent press briefing that “weand just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back tothroughout normalcy. or $60 billion, applied repatriated American China to “pay” for the damage theyfear have caused the US. Don’t hold your state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. justification for it.manufacturing And answers should not be vague ones like “we country, the some ofbe them get in states, such as Michigan, Since when did ne way to get number has been overestimated, given that classification for cause We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing to foll me orders go into June. They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept without they’ve donned masks. transparency and the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many scientific experts — we need to know what they know, what they According to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wide-scale urrency, we would not be able to fund any of these emergency Efird, Getus Efird and Wayne Efird, the fish house for many years until April 10, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and (Tiffany) Fincher of New London have Lenten and For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Cong pandemic. nd we have the right to ask those decimal dust compared to the $6 trillion+ Marshall Plan we are now this disaster. Studies journal published athe hoax Easter seasons government “Russian flu”Ragsdale and theat 2002 SARS outbreak. There is anxious evidence that the dark situation. Heoutside will bepaper on Wheels. She enjoyed baking Brown and husband Steve of and several greatdaughters, Barbara Miller (Gene); currency, wou There is the 100% agreement, ofdeeply China, that depreciation. Perhaps state’s stay-at-home orders will extend intoelderly May. No. The government works for us, and we have the ri ment to U.S. would cost U.S. Treasury $18 billion inwhen breath waiting for adeath, Chinese “Jubilee” to happen but ask your elected Ifisolated he does decide to extend it, questions should bewe asked must do this out ofCOVID-19 an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting home feeling and/or about Since did Don’t hold your of particularly among patients, can be variable. Some We they need to start answering serious questio WALTER E. WILLIAMS questioning rolina, Democratic Gov. Roythe Cooper stated during question what the government tells about when it’s safe to begin the The result: a reduction in expec Lenten and tothat ask those people have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources suggest the don’t and when they hope to know what they don’t. Sr. he opened Anchor House Seafood Home ofus Albemarle. funeral Hunter Zado, well as his brother, NC., Step Jimmy (Lisa) Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited byThe members ofand the testing and contact tracing, or with the realization that we will have measures without immediate fear of rampant inflation currency pand argued the term was making. As Iinaccountable celebrated Easter with my family, Iasreflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-em and honesty For me, my faith isneed an part ofstay-at-home my daily life and decision eht orders are inover place all bodybuilding over undertaking toto save ourand own economy, not of defeated enemies as the Itmassive isin about time they are expected to operate asimportant responsible citizens of missed by all. and cooking. Her grandchildren Albemarle, Lindsey Toole and grandchildren. She was lovingly Judy Miller (C.B. Burnie); and Easter seasons 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic also had its origins inChildren, China. measures withou ginated in Wuhan Province probably from the completely China has to pay for their aberrant ways decisions through provide a If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And the longer orders are in pl enue spread a few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is representatives to hold China tangible financial ways for justification for it. And the answers should not be vague on at all levels It will need be explained in detail to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, will demand COVID-19 your elected sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of Easter institutional faith questioning sce press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” the process of of returning back toand normalcy. transparency A private funeral service will beSome in Rockwell. 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There isbe 100% agreement, outside of China, that COVID-19 depreciation. regulated and unsanitary wet markets. believe itare came out athis economic financial Diplomacy has obviously not from our ifto justification for it. And the answers should not vague ones like “we country, and the some of them get in states, suc provide aus al dust compared to athe $6 trillion+ Marshall Plan we now disaster. do this out anstricter abundance of are being told remain jobless and at home forworks an undetermined answers. message ofshe ancial ways for become many people are dying at home. institutions seem deeply prone. with “fat bodybuilding, as a fat-inclusive is China’s held on Saturday, April 11, 2020 owned and operated Anchor House Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Luther and several other loved nieces, Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric orders will extend into May. No. The government for us, and we have the right to ask those Metrics and Evaluation model mo as Michigan, of death, particularly among elderly patients, can be variable. Some they need to start answering serious questions, or they will fall prey peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can we do? Are China has to pay for their aberrant ways and decisions through mak and honesty government survivors include wife,amount Melissa enjoyed sharing memories and life Weaver and wife Kim of New Gangy, and friend. Virginia was blessed with affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and workers. Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our gaking isolated and/or anxious about China has been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American originated in Wuhan Province probably from the completely China has to pa warfare lab run by the communist Chinese army. to bring China into the civilized world of 21st century health, hygiene provide a must do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or at all levels to save our own economy, not of defeated enemies as in the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of It will need to be explained in detail to the people of this scientific experts of to time why predicting hundreds ofstay-at-home thousands oforders cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they message of politicized performance.” One reviewer hope that we will Even more importantly, we have no clue how many Americans at Love’ swill Grove United Methodist for 25models years before retiring inhave 2009. Church in Marshville, officiated nephews and cousins. (Sharon) Lanier ofadministration, Charlotte NC., otheir extend it, questions should be asked as the questions. And the longer are in all over the Trump the expect bad thing? about sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all American ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling tens of millions ofother tests over the next few conomic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked Corin Ann Eury ofdemand Albemarle; son, stories with them all. London, Ivy Overcash ofplace Atlanta, eight grandchildren: Susan Chernobyl. affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted byout continue working on common sense and tar affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any rnxious families, business now for the past 30 years. They made no secret that they unregulated and unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a economic fin from our Until China adopts rigorous verifiable policing and regulation of and fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the blame only able to find low-paying work. at all levels It will need to be explained in detail to the people of this state who when they can get back to providing for their families, the world like any other modern nation. are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undeter message of are reliable. can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer said, “IChurch thoroughly enjoyed reading this — we21st need to become aseem— sible citizens of hope thatscientists we will actually have Some suggest that thecompelling number Ben Shapiro, 36, isregularly, a graduate of UCLA and Cemetery inbe Stanfield Mr. Smith was ahygiene charter member by Rev. John Miller and Rev. 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Jim White. Burial and deacon at Open Door Whitley. She will lie in state for 30 Charlotte Pipe and Foundry after of Midland, Step-grandchildren, what they bad thing? once again enjoy an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about ventilators by nearly 13,000 and Even more importantly, we have no clue how many Americans Eury; brother, Wayne Eury; and of 18 years, Edward Stancil, of Kings Mountain; her brother Miller (Andrea), Andrea Griffin Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic? Can we nd fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the blame sporting events, afflic of his income — the actual dollar If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. God.” should be as forthcoming as they replace the dollar as the reserve currency with their renminbi. Until China adopts rigorous verifiable policing and regulation of and fair trade. 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Some scientists suggest that the number Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, questions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans — and r express sincere regret and remorse, because that is not what God. sporting events, reflect on this message and comforted, so that weprotocols, may live out Until then, the Lenten and Easter season If you are celebrating thegone Easter season, urge you to express also That isorwhat n,to not vague answers, but answer journal.” family theirbefood and health American business has noI— other or sincere national security safety reasons as well supply and delivery they find inbe adversaries and keep pushing until they win the reliable. be with those answers and again, not answ replace the U.S. as the premier superpower in the world and concerts, Tocan date, I’ve along with what the state hasvague asked an the data. StateasRepublican leaders have, are too. ourselves, andsafety our communities safe. But we should also still continue Methodist Church Cemetery, 4360 Lord and his family abundantly. Tony laid toexample rest inwell the church cemetery. there with his sons and several other (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) living inand a My free know what they same amount regardless ofdo. his husband Todd of Polkton, a sister Charlotte; as as nine great (Jamie), Mandy Cox (Curtis), main jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. Here’s the problem: We still don sporting events, ers, but answer of identified cases could be an order of magnitude lower than the host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire. First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? 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Washington, Beth(Brett (Robbie) Setzer, h income-based repayment onkeep his Jackie Kimrey of Marshville, five grandchildren. Leslie Mullinix Burey), predicting hundreds of Reply thousands ofthis cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they what they Feminism as an Intersectional to hope questions that will allow econo society were number of people who have coronavirus and not been tested. com. important because ithad determines whether certain areas ought to One thing isthe certain: Things cannot continue as they have been. hey find adversaries and pushing until they or the reflec this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, Iknow, am gatherings, services and many more concerts, family example and comfort all inchurch need around us during emodels can to in keep our families, for national security and safety reasons as well as supply and delivery they find in adver The most direct way to make China “pay” for disaster is tocould offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such asquestions theinGod’s Chernobyl they to freetendency citizens mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had about We should allthose continue to do what we can tothe keep ou gatherings, data. State Republican leaders have, too. sometimes a disturbing among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. RENEE church services kely make interest-only payments as Survivors include son Gerald grandfather and fix anything husband of 47 years, Paul Helms Danny loved spending time at Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step living a free grandchildren Jake Lowder, Alex Preceding her in death in Gina Blalock (Steve), Shelly Eudy Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” was can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer First, what is the true coronavir amilies, be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a Americans are not going to stay home for months on end, and dversaries push back. God’ don’t and when confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifices for the greater goo this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am ut we should also still continue supposed reliability concerns. adversaries push S. tax credits to companies who will source at least half of their meltdown in 1986. Some experts believe that event, not the Star Wars gatherings, the data. State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe. But we should als Unfortunately, when certain types of questions get asked tinued to mount. AMERICA’S COLLEGES are rife with SHAVER know what they simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, Wayne (Gail) Efird of Albemarle; he put his hands on. of the home; son, Alex (Deanna) his lake house with his family and great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve church services EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS living in a free accepted for publication by Affilia, a and many more Lowder, Holly Brock, Maddie (Stephen); and seventeen great addition tobelievability. James, wereIher society were along with what theexogenous state has askedThere and then with details that give their statements important because itwhile determines w still continue more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not dohope sodisturbing on the basis of ever-evolving models, That is,reasonable unless an event happens such asThe the Chernobyl this In this same spirit, continue to be inspired by stories of humanity are over. confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. se while stay-at-home The most direct way to make China “pay” for this disaster is to offer That is, unless they to oduction back in the United States. is approximately $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union sity is already experimenting with corruption. financial squeeze resulting Unfortunately, when certain types of questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, because reasona WRIGHT, 65, sometimes a tendency among some people to tred to do, last I church services to normal as though they are conspiracy theorists or are people who shape, ormany form. 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Ifshould the U.S. dollar were notme the April 18,Michigan, 2020 stay-at-home orders will extend into No. The government works for us, and we have right to ask those Charlotte, NC., aoflife stepdaughter transparency Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081. ose of students. Universities would departments into adhering to their TACEY MATTHEWS According to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wide-scale For me, my faith is an important part of my daily and decision I am glad initiatives Easter seasons government sexual violence against women. Typically, they’ve donned masks. seasonal, which means we are likely to see more serious spreading There is 100% agreement, outside of China, that COVID-19 depreciation. have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the coronavirus response. 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And that means we will be faced with either renewed Lenten and in Wuhan Province probably from the completely China has to pay for their aberrant ways decisions through pandemic. While people throughout our communities continue step up, provide a Tracy. Mrs. Mauldin was born April at Atrium atAnd all levels Itmeasures will to be explained in detail torampant the people ofstricter this and state whoof themwhen cansuch get back to NC, providing forBrian their families, will demand Woods Nursing &to Rehabilitation oation had for its origins inprobably China. without immediate fearcountry, of inflation currency it. the answers should notneed be vague ones like and the some get inthey states, as to Michigan, ece universities would begin neither scientific nor“we rigorous. Grievance Troutman, brother EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS all over the papers out to referees for review. In Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work.on the Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people ansparency According to the University of Washington Institute for Health lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wide-scale regulated and unsanitary wet markets. Some believe it came out of a economic and financial means. Diplomacy has obviously not worked from our For me, my faith is an important part of my daily life and decision I am glad initiatives we have passed in Congress, like the Paycheck He is survived by his loving 17, 1925 in Montgomery County Health COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON Easter seasons Center in Albemarle. are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. message of China, that COVID-19 depreciation. dance to when studies consist of disciplines such as oasthis outstudents of an abundance offor caution.” become a they choose thewas more people, sitting at home isolated and/or anxious about Shaver ofthose Albemarle, NC, two recommending acceptance publication, Michigan, peak revised down bytesting over 120,000, the of Which raises the third question: What exactly we do?and Areworkers. affliction, so thatfeeling weworld may be able to comfort who are in any relief soon reach families Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members ofand the and contact tracing, or with the realization that we will have owarfare lab run by the communist army. to bring China into the of 21st health, hygiene wife of 30 years, to the late Cleet Loftin and the making. 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There nd honesty Mr.will Edwards wascan born scientific experts asses and take out loans. amount ofsociology, time why models predicting hundreds of thousands ofproviding cases Leaders atcentury the local and state levels should be as forthcoming aspeople they anthropology, gender studies, from the completely China has to pay for their aberrant ways decisions through provide aChinese hope that we will ll need to be explained in Patricia detail toRochelle the people of this state who sisters Paula Hays and husband when they can get back to for their families, will demand many reviewers gave these papers glowing bad thing? anxious about ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling out tens of millions ofRICHARD tests over theHUDSON next fewand tar affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work. Tracy of the home; grandchildren, late Gladys Loftin. She was also Until China adopts rigorous verifiable policing and regulation of and fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the blame will be a memorial service for the Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people on the payroll, while direct ve solutions will do what “Free COLUMN | REP. queer studies, sexuality and critical race November 9, 1938 in Stanly reliable. — and again, not vague answers, but answer s. Some believe it came of at aare economic and means. 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Are family at a later date. eir food safety and health protocols, American business has no other or express sincere regret and remorse, because that is not what County to the late Harvey Lee affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach families and workers. know that I’ll Totoknow date, I’ve gone along with whatworld theLeaders state has asked and then Political scientist Zach Goldberg ran with details that give their statements believability. hinese army. bring China into the civilized of 21st health, hygiene Pickett and as husband Terry of while carriers are asymptomatic? Can we cientific experts nt of time why models predicting hundreds of thousands of cases atcentury the local and state levels should be as forthcoming they what they hope that we will Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key virus is transmittable sporting events, ely and act together towards the In 2017 and 2018, authors Pluckrose, If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. GA, and Jessica Bessette of Harvey Ragsdale; and son, Mr.take Kimrey was born ventilators bymandated nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths bywe we capable of rolling out tensall of millions of tests over the next few Edwards and the late Thelma oice than to build redundant manufacturing plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. They take advantage of every weakness affliction, with the comfort which ourselves are comforted by continue working on common sense and targeted solutions so that certain grievance studies concepts through free citizens that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should continue to do what we can to keep our families, policing and regulation of and fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never the blame Badin, create NC, aanswer special friend Guysystem for 330 million Americans — and iable. can beallow with those answers —reopen. and again, and not vague answers, but we need to coming as theyeducated, oal is toLexis/Nexis create wise know, what they Lindsay and Boghossian started questions that will the economy to awe contact tracing again enjoy reflect on this message be comforted, so may But live out Until the Lenten and Easter season Bristol, CT; great-grandchildren, Donnie Ragsdale. December 2, 1947 in Stanly concerts, family the database, tonearly see how often Earnhardt Edwards. He was August byonce 12,000. months — and compelling people to take tests regularly, since the national security and safety reasons as well as supply and delivery they findthat in adversaries and keep pushing they win or the God.” we can defeat the coronavirus and keep people and businesses the data. State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe. we should also stillthen, continue merican business has no other or express sincere regret and remorse, because that is not what Watkins ofthat Lexington, NC and INDA TUCKER HATLEY, 69,until of ate, I’ve gone along with what the state has asked and then living in a free with details give their statements believability. raduates. Only with smart policies submitting bogus academic papers to ers, but answer First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? now whatconcerns. they Hunter, Alize, andthe Mason Mobbs Survivors include son, Lee they appeared in our press over the years. God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting County, NC and was the son of don’t and when also preceded in death by a son, Here’s problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic? Can we sporting events, iability adversaries push back. If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. gatherings, Unfortunately, when certain types questions get asked, there is to ask questions about the data, while reasonable stay-at-home a large number ofbecause nieces and cturing plants elsewhere purely totalitarian governments do. Theyof take advantage ofAlbemarle, every weakness AULINE ELIZABETH passed away Monday, ated that we do, but along the way I’ve alsoacademic had(Joyce) questions about We should allthe continue to do what we can to keep our families, tudent success can we ensure that journals in cultural, queer, society were He found huge increases in the usages important because itbedetermines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they Co. have and Farrah Griswold. David is Ragsdale of Albemarle; late Oscar Lee Kimrey and this difficult time. Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church services and many more Barney Edwards; daughter-innow, what they questions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans — and The most direct way to make China “pay” for this disaster is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such as the Chernobyl they hope to reflect on this message and comforted, so that we may live out Until then, the Lenten and Easter seasons provide a message of “THIS IS THE DAY the lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad Hydromer Inc. in Concord and New Sarum Brewing inbeen. concerts, family nephews. She was also preceded sometimes a disturbing among some people tocommunities treat those measures areofunderstandable, they should also have an expiration date. ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed April 13, 2020. church services as well asRepublican supply andleaders delivery they find ingender, adversaries keep pushing until win or the safe. WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home fallen into place. I understand theSweden seriousness the virus and the need vide for students, parents, race, fattendency andand sexuality studies ta. State have, too. ourselves, andthey our But we should also still continue ofvalue “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” families, be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — style — a also survived by a brother-in-law, granddaughters, Leann Ragsdale Americans are not going to stay home for months on end, and Idell Carpenter Kimrey. He was law, Lynn Edwards. confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifices for the greater go supposed First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one? S. tax credits to companies who will source at least half of their meltdown in 1986. Some experts believe that event, not the Star Wars God’s example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting events, concerts, family in it” (Psalm 118:24). on’t and when Salisbury are switching their operations to make hand sanitizer. in death by a brother Herbert away peacefully at Trinity Place, Linda was born September 18, ciety. know what they simply questioning the data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, to determine if they would pass peer adversaries push back. ders thanks to local or state governments, majority ofthere Americans gatherings, to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask will not do so on the basis of ever-evolving models, andto many more ortunately, when certain types of Stacey questionsa get asked, isliberalized ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home “critical race theory” and “whiteness.” Wesley Rochelle, niece, and Candi Reed; great-grandson, still continue a retired employee of Rand and more society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly Mr. Edwards will lie in state In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity are over. important because it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they have been. oduction back in the United States. 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Pauline was born on March 22,we Claris Tucker. She was also preceded students, many of whom become primary otherwise don’t care if they get themselves or others the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-called at least half of their meltdown in 1986. Some experts believe that event, the Star Wars orders thanks to local state governments, a majority of Americans to take precaution Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with now what they questioning the data and asking when can start getting back checked. This is all new to Americans, and it is not normal. Not in any way, cousin, Marcia Plocharsky, and Hunsucker and Sylvia Freeman. NC, with 43 years of Mr. and many more Albemarle from 8:00 AM -provide 5:00 xpiration date.inthe We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number ofaservice. deaths divided by estimates in terms ofmodels, death and the upper-end estimates in terms temporary journal editors found sympathetic towhether their In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all continue more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or we they certainly will not do so on the basis of ever-evolving China. Chinese direct investment in the U.S. is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. I know that during this challen uestions about data, and when things can start getting back to 1922 Cabarrus County, NC to the in death by her brother, Terry Lee In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity are over. and secondary school teachers who then be glad” as the Bible tells us to do. 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We know Brenda temporary An investment tax credit of 30% on half of U.S. investment in China of China forgiving $1.2 trillion in debt we owe them as one way to get be glad” as the Bible tells us to do They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept without In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all continue to keep faith, practice over. have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the coronavirus response. to do, last I checked. he U.S. is about $65 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June. 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Treasury $18 billion in breath waiting for a Chinese “Jubilee” to happen but ask your elected If he does decide to extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions. And th ust do this out of an abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about is survived by two daughters, and wife Ashley of Troy; daughter, dSister aboutToldjah them catching the virus,NC; and I’m exclusionary worried I will. After and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. message of elderly many people are dying at home. institutions seem deeply prone. questioning Hunt (Marc), Albemarle, her and loving person. Linda would and should be replaced of death, particularly among patients, can be variable. Some they need to start answering serious questions, or they will fall prey dertaking to save our own economy, not of defeated enemies as in the It is about time are expected to operate as responsible citizens of making. 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Battleground power plays rage as everyday politics go quiet By Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Door-knocking? Over. Local party activity? Some Facebook traffic, if that. Across an arc of vital swing states, the coronavirus has put politics on an uneasy pause. Instead, political fights among state leaders from Iowa to Pennsylvania over the handling of the pandemic’s impact are raging as it spreads over this electoral heartland. Protecting public health versus restarting the economy, along with arguments over the limits of executive authority, have taken the place of the national political debate typical of presidential campaigns at this point. They reflect, unlike the political armistice that followed the 2001 terrorist attacks, a willingness to politicize this crisis. It’s one more clear measure of a polarized era. “Yes, politicos and pols will always have November on their mind,” said Iowa GOP strategist John Stineman. “But, in my mind, what we are seeing right now is

more about each base criticizing the other side for being wrong, a product of the political environment we have allowed to take root.” Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Democratic nominees had won regularly for more than 30 years, tipped to Trump in 2016, sealing his victory with their combined 52 electoral votes. While politics have slipped to an afterthought for most Americans behind a toll of mounting coronavirus deaths, lost wages and closed schools, the campaign buzz of a little more than a month ago has silenced. In swing-voting Bay County, Michigan, Democratic activity had been humming, as it was statewide before the March 10 presidential primary, when participation jumped by 32% over 2016. A week later, Bay City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade — the state’s largest and a Democratic tradition — was canceled. So was the county’s Democratic fundraising dinner, which was set to feature Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “I see chatter on social media.

But as far as activity, it’s pretty much down to nothing,” said Bay County Democratic Chairwoman Karen Tighe. Iowa canceled Democratic conventions in its 99 counties, a setback after 2018 Statehouse and congressional gains and a yearlong parade of presidential candidates vying for support in the February caucuses. Republican Ron Forsell canceled plans for his fundraiser in Dallas County, Iowa, an emerging suburban battlefront. “Politics is going to be there again,” he said. “But raising money now just doesn’t feel right.” Democratic organizer Angela Lang’s door-to-door canvassing in struggling north Milwaukee had to shut down in late March, hurting her ability to reach this pivotal African American bloc before Wisconsin’s April 7 primary. “I think for most Americans, politics is taking a major back seat to survival for some and the adjustment to this new normal for most of us,” said former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a Democrat. Even as the virus raged in Pennsylvania, Republicans in

Harrisburg pushed through legislation aimed at reversing the shutdown edicts of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, painting him as unconcerned with struggling families. During debate last week, Republican state Sen. John DiSanto said Wolf had forced “1.3 million Pennsylvanians out of work so far, put businesses at risk of permanent closure and imperiled the long-term health of Pennsylvania residents and our economy.” Democrats said that Republicans were trying to throw workers back into the pandemic’s path. “Let the world know whose lives are we willing to sacrifice,” Democratic Rep. Jordan Harris of Philadelphia said. In Iowa, Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand has questioned the data Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds is using to justify allowing more freedom of movement than in neighboring states. Reynolds’ aides were quick to point out public affirmation from Dr. Anthony Fauci after the federal government’s top infectious-disease expert praised Reynolds’ actions during a White House event this month. The tension is most pronounced in Michigan, where the outbreak is far worse than in any of the other northern political battlegrounds. Two weeks ago, Republicans sharply trimmed the emergency order Whitmer hoped to extend to June. “Michigan’s recovery will take

much longer and its economic impact will be much more devastating than it needed to be,” Republican House Speaker Lee Chatfield said. Whitmer’s criticism of the federal response in Michigan devolved into a public tiff with President Donald Trump, who responded by suggesting Vice President Mike Pence, his coronavirus task force leader, not call “the woman from Michigan.” Michigan Democrats echoed Whitmer’s criticism of the federal response to Detroit’s crisis, while GOP figures urged Trump to deescalate tension with the swing-state governor. Meanwhile, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has built little campaign structure across the region. Trump is relying on state GOP headquarters for his operations, though they, too, have been largely empty. Pro- and anti-Trump groups unaffiliated with the candidates have carried what little presidential campaigning has gone on here. Democrat-backed groups Priorities USA and American Bridge have aired millions of dollars in advertising savaging Trump’s handling of the crisis. “Only the die-hards are paying attention to election politics,” Vilsack said. “However, opinions have formed and will continue to form on politics of how the administration is handling the situation.”

10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed By Kevin McGill The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be huge but the risks are greater than ever. Industry leaders and government officials say they’re determined to prevent a repeat of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. It spilled 134 million gallons of oil that fouled beaches from Louisiana to Florida, killed hundreds of thousands of marine animals and devastated the region’s tourist economy. Today companies are increasingly reliant on production from deeper and inherently more dangerous oil reserves, where drill crews can grapple with ultra-high pressures and oil temperatures that can top 350 degrees. Despite almost $2 billion in spending by the industry on equipment to respond to an oil well blowout like BP’s, some scientists, former government officials and environmentalists say safety practices appear to be eroding. And there are worries that cleanup tactics have changed little in decades and are likely to prove as ineffective as they were in 2010. “I’m concerned that in the industry, the lessons aren’t fully learned — that we’re tending to backslide,” said Donald Boesch, a marine science professor at the University of Maryland who was on a federal commission that determined the BP blowout was preventable. Regulators and industry leaders say they’ve employed lessons from the April 20, 2010, disaster to make deep-water drilling safer by setting tougher construction and enforcement standards. “I think the event 10 years ago really initiated kind of a new day in offshore safety,” said Debra Phillips, of the American Petroleum Institute, a standards-setting trade association. Companies have a financial interest in preventing a repeat of the 2010 disaster, which cost BP more than $69 billion in cleanup, fines, fees and settlements. Questions over environmental effects linger, and litigation continues over health problems suffered by cleanup workers. Competing oil giants joined in the disaster’s wake to create the Marine Well Containment Co., which has equipment and vessels positioned regionwide to quickly corral oil if another major spill occurs. “All of (the) industry wanted to make sure that nothing like it could ever happen again,” said CEO David Nickerson, at the company’s complex near Corpus Christi on Texas’ coast. He was dwarfed by “capping

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This April 21, 2010 file photo shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southeast tip of Louisiana. stacks”” — multistory structures of piping, valves and gauges designed to be lowered to halt a major high-pressure blowout. In the past year, the industry began producing crude for the first time from ultra-high pressure crude reserves in the Gulf. Overall production hit a record 2 million barrels a day before the coronavirus pandemic caused demand to plummet. Pressures in those wells can approach 20,000 pounds per square inch, compared with almost 12,000 pounds for Deepwater Horizon. “Higher risk, higher pressure, higher temperatures, more reliance on technology — it’s just a tougher environment to operate in,” said Lois Epstein, a civil engineer at the Wilderness Society who served on a government advisory committee post-spill.

Trump administration changes have intensified debate over how tightly the government should regulate, and what decisions should be left to industry professionals. Much of the discussion centers on rules intended to keep wells under control, such as requirements for blowout preventers that failed in the spill. The 2016 rule required companies to test the blowout preventers every 14 days. The Trump administration allows companies to test every 21 days, saying more frequent testing would risk equipment failure. As deep-water activity has expanded, the number of inspections carried out by the government’s safety bureau has declined. Bureau spokesman Sandy Day said the inspection figures reflect visits by inspectors to rigs, platforms and other facilities. Day said

the data doesn’t reflect electronic records reviewed remotely or the increased time spent at each facility and all inspection tasks performed. Those, he said, have increased from 9,287 in 2017 to 12,489 last year. The agency didn’t provide a breakdown. “While on the facility we did numerous inspections of different items,” Day said, including equipment for preventing blowouts, fires, spills, or other major accidents. He said electronic records allow more work to be done from shore, rather than digging through paperwork on site. The number of warnings and citations issued to companies for safety or environmental violations peaked in 2012 and has since fallen even faster than inspections. The decline accelerated under the current administration, agency documents show.

Fewer inspection visits and fewer citations suggests the safety improvements that took hold after the 2010 spill are unraveling, said Matt Lee-Ashley, former deputy chief of staff at the Interior Department. “There is a value in having inspectors on board frequently. You have to establish a culture of enforcement,” said Lee-Ashley, now with the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning advocacy group. Industry representatives maintain that inspection numbers don’t automatically translate to less effective oversight. Inspectors are less interested than in the past in technical violations and are focused on making sure comprehensive safety systems are in place to prevent major accidents, said Erik Milito, of industry trade group the National Ocean Industries Association.

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Virus outbreak wedding delivery In this Friday, April 10, 2020, photo provided by Amy Fowler Shores, Savannah Kulenic and Dylan Perkins kiss during their wedding ceremony on a North Carolina beach. A jewelry company said it could overnight the groom’s ring, but it was going to arrive after the ceremony. FedEx driver Joe Engel saw a note on the bride’s door and took the package to the beach just in time. The couple was supposed to get married in Hawaii but canceled their destination ceremony amid the coronavirus pandemic.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Area schools turn on lights for seniors Forsyth County High school seniors across the area have been deprived of many of the milestones of their final semester before graduation, but schools got together on Monday night to try to pay tribute to the class. At 8:20 p.m. on April 20, high school football stadiums across the county turned on their floodlights for 20 minutes. The Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County also asked all residents to turn on their porch lights at the same time as a show of solidarity. WFMY

Demon Deacons appear to be keeping coach, shuffling players The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —Despite rumors and speculation that Wake Forest would part ways with head coach Danny Manning, it appears that that Manning and the Deacs will be together for another year. In six years with Wake, Manning has had one winning season and is 78-111 over that span for a .413 winning percentage. Manning answered several questions about his job status at the end of the regular season, but the abrubt ending to the year, due to the sport’s shutdown for the COVID-19 pandemic, may have helped gain Man-

“For me, I’m moving forward as if I’m going to be here.” Danny Manning, coach ning more time. With school revenue down due to the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament and boosters likely feeling the economic pinch, not to mention the fact that Wake’s campus is shut down, it would be difficult for Wake to conduct a coaching search or negotiate a buy-out with Manning. At the start of this month, he ap-

peared with local radio host Josh Graham, saying, “For me, I’m moving forward as if I’m going to be here.” That includes several changes to the roster. Wake Forest junior Chaundee Brown says he will enter his name into the NBA draft as well as the NCAA transfer portal. Brown announced his plans in a social-media post Wednesday. The 6-foot-5 guard from Orlando, Florida, said he plans to maintain his college eligibility even while going through the draft process. Brown was Wake Forest’s third-leading scorer last season at 12.1 points per game and its second-best rebounder at 6.5 boards per game. He missed eight games due to injury, but had 24 points and nine rebounds in a double-overtime win against highly ranked Duke in late February. While Brown is departing, Wake is adding transfer help. The Demon Deacons announced Thursday that Ian DuBose would play next year as a graduate trans-

fer from Houston Baptist. In addition, Virginia Tech sophomore Isaiah Wilkins announced in a social-media post that he would transfer to his hometown school, though it’s unclear if he must sit a year due to NCAA transfer rules or could receive a waiver to play immediately. DuBose, a 6-foot-4 guard, averaged 19 points to lead the Southland Conference last season while also becoming that league’s men’s basketball student-athlete of the year with a 3.84 GPA. He will graduate this spring with a degree in kinesiology. “His size and athleticism will give us flexibility in how we can use him on the court next year and we are looking forward to seeing how his game will translate” to the Atlantic Coast Conference, coach Danny Manning said in a statement. Wilkins, also a 6-4 guard, averaged 4.5 points over his first two seasons with the Hokies. TCH Staff contributed to this report

Two killed in head-on collision Rowan County Pricilia Martinez-Ponce, 18, of Boonville and Bryant Bennett, 33, of Salisbury were killed when their cars collided head on in Rowan County earlier this month. Martinez-Ponce’s Honda Civic crossed the center line on Highway 801 and struck Bennett’s 2008 Lexus. Police say speed, alcohol and cell phone use were not to blame for the crash. Both drivers were declared dead on the scene. A passenger in Martinez-Ponce’s car was taken to the hospital. WBTV

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North Carolina, Forsyth County lagging in social distancing compared to rest of nation TCH staff NORTH CAROLINIANS have cut back significantly on their travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor has issued executive orders closing restaurants and other non-essential businesses, and citizens are under a stay-athome order. Several different organizations have monitored the GPS on people’s cell phones, and the results show that we’ve listened—for the most part, although we lag behind the rest of the nation. The cell phone data is aggregated, meaning an individual’s personal travel or location data is not available. The University of Maryland’s Transportation Institute calculated a Social Distancing Index to measure how good an area is doing at preventing the spread of the virus. It’s on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being no social distancing activities at all, and 100 is everyone stay-

ing home and no one is entering the community from outside. North Carolina’s score is a 51, which is seven points below the national average of 58. By comparison, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts have a 74, while Wyoming, at 35, is the state doing the least social distancing. 29 percent of North Carolinians are staying home, compared to the national average of 35 percent. In North Carolina, 27 percent of people have traveled outside the border of their county, higher than the national average of 24.7. We travel an average of 22.5 miles per person, which is higher than the national average of 21.4. Google’s data shows a similar pattern. Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve reduced our retail and recreation travel, which includes restaurants, coffee shops, malls and theaters, by 40 percent. Across the nation, it’s been cut by 45 percent. Our travel to groceries and

29 percent of North Carolinians are staying home, compared to the national average of 35 percent. In North Carolina, 27 percent of people have traveled outside the border of their county, higher than the national average of 24.7. We travel an average of 22.5 miles per person, which is higher than the national average of 21.4. pharmacies is down just five percent, compared to a seven percent drop nationally. We’re actually going to parks more, with a 20 percent increase from pre-pandemic levels. Nation-

ally, travel to parks is down 16 percent. We’ve cut travel to transit stations (bus and train stations and other public transit hubs) by 49 percent, which is right on the national average. We’ve cut travel to our workplace by 35 percent, which is close to the national average of a 38 percent drop. Trips to other people’s houses is up 11 percent, but nationally, it’s up 14 percent. The company Descartes Labs looked at the data by county, and it shows that Forsyth County trails the other large population centers in the state. Descartes Labs took a median pre-pandemic level of travel in each county and compared our current habits to it. With 100 being the average level of mobility, Wake County is at 9 for the month of April, a 91 percent drop. For the last 10 days of March, it was at 11 (an 89 percent drop). Mecklenburg County is close to Wake’s levels—10 for April, 12 for the end of March. Guilford County is at 17 for April, 22 for the end of March Forsyth, meanwhile, is at 24 for April and was at 27 for the last 10 days of March.

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AS OUR NATIONAL LOCKDOWN drags on, Americans seem less and less inclined to move swiftly toward societal reopening. Perhaps that’s due to the consistent media focus on the risks of reopening. Perhaps that’s also due to the psychological comfort of the status quo: When we’ve been made to feel safe in our home, it’s difficult to leave it. Or perhaps we, as a society, have so fundamentally altered our own perception of risk aversion that we aren’t willing to leave our houses unless the risk is close to zero. Whatever the reason, it is simply untenable to lock Americans down for months more. Calls to do so ignore not only the catastrophic human suffering inflicted on millions — employees who no longer have jobs, children who can no longer attend school, entrepreneurs who have seen their life’s dreams and savings destroyed at the behest of the government — but the reality of economics, which is that government cannot interminably pay everyone to stay at home. Furthermore, longterm lockdowns do not even prevent the virus from eventual second-wave spreading; when we emerge from our homes, we will pass the virus to one another again. So, how should we view the risks of reopening our society? Rationally. This means that we should stop looking at false case fatality rates as inevitabilities. We simply don’t know how many Americans have had coronavirus, or how many have it now. We do know that the number of confirmed cases is far lower than the number of cases in society more broadly. In New York, the supposed case fatality rate — the number of deaths from coronavirus over the number of confirmed cases — rests at around 5%. But between March 22 and April 4, 215 pregnant women were screened for COVID-19 in New York City, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. Four women had symptoms of COVID-19, and 29 tested positive despite being asymptomatic. This means 13.7% of these women had COVID-19 without knowing it — for every symptomatic woman, there were seven others who were asymptomatic but positive. If applied statewide — a simplistic

model but certainly one that would be closer to accuracy than mere confirmed cases — this would drop the case fatality rate from 5% to 0.7%. Needless to say, such a statistic would alleviate some worry, particularly among less vulnerable populations. We should also stop treating all cohorts of American society as equally vulnerable to coronavirus. According to two New York University studies, the first most predictive condition for hospitalization was age: Almost half of all coronavirus patients hospitalized in New York City were over the age of 65. The next most predictive condition was obesity. And over 70% of hospitalized coronavirus patients had a chronic condition. This should be no surprise: As of April 12, the New York City Health Department reported 128 fatalities among people with no underlying conditions and just 26 deaths among people below age 45 with no underlying conditions. There were 42,524 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 for New Yorkers under age 45, meaning that the case fatality rate — again, a seriously high-end estimate given the fact that asymptomatic people have not been tested — for those with no underlying health conditions below age 45 is 0.06%. In other words, 9,994 out of every 10,000 young, healthy people who get coronavirus will not die — and the number is likely higher than that. This means that we should be looking to send young, healthy people back to work, and urging social distancing and isolation for those who are elderly or have preexisting conditions that raise coronavirus risks. We should retain social distancing for the young and healthy, urge mask wearing and perform contact tracing when hot spots arise. We should continue to avoid large-scale gatherings. We should urge special vigilance in high-density areas. Localism is our friend here. But there is a path toward reopening. To ignore it isn’t just foolish; it’s counterproductive. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

WEEKLY CRIME REPORT ♦ ADAMS, EFEREM LAMONT was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3068 N PATTERSON AV/ INDIANA AV on 4/19/2020

(M), 2) P/w/i/s/d Marijuana (F), and 3) Maintain Dwelling (F), at 6252 Towncenter Dr, Clemmons, NC, on 4/18/2020 02:48.

♦ Baxley, Shane Michael (M/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugs-poss Sched Vi (M) and 2) Speeding - Exceeding Posted Limit By 15 Mph Or More On Hwy (M), at Sb 311/nc 66 South, Kernersville, NC, on 4/18/2020 15:19.

♦ ENNIS, CYNTHIA RENEEFRAZIER was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1599 N LIBERTY ST/E SIXTEENTH ST on 4/19/2020

♦ BOST, HAROLD LEE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1599 N LIBERTY ST/E SIXTEENTH ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ BURGESS, HASSAN RAMINE was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 2599 NEW WALKERTOWN RD/E FOURTEENTH ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ COLVARD, SHERMAN BRYAN was arrested on a charge of POSS COCAINE FEL at 2221 HOPE ST on 4/20/2020 ♦ COONEY, ASA MATTHEW was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 500 SUMMIT ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ Crafford, Samantha Tuttle (F/50) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugs-poss Sched Ii (F), 2) Drugs-poss Sched Iv (M), and 3) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 7800 Broad St, Rural Hall, NC, on 4/17/2020 00:35. ♦ DRIVER, BRENT JULIAN was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS ANOTHER STATE/ INDIAN TRIBE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 4/19/2020 ♦ Eastridge, Phoenix Jeremiah (M/23) Arrest on chrg of Drugs-poss Sched Ii, F (F), at 8191 Broad St, Rural Hall, NC, on 4/18/2020 09:30. ♦ Elliott, Crystal Ann (F/46) Arrest on chrg of Assaultsimple (M), at 8410 Vance Rd, Kernersville, NC, on 4/20/2020 18:29. ♦ Elmore, Marvin (M/29) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female

♦ ETHIER, RICHARD JAMES was arrested on a charge of B&E-PREP/POSS TOOL at 411 E MONMOUTH ST on 4/19/2020 ♦ Goode, Rory Christopher (M/35) Arrest on chrg of Sexual Battery, M (M), at 6049 Cain Forest Dr, Walkertown, NC, on 4/16/2020 16:24. ♦ HAZELTON, GARY LYNN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 199 W FIFTH ST/N TRADE ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ Inscore, Earl William (M/30) Arrest on chrg of 1) Probation Violation (M) and 2) Probation Violation (M), at 100 Bethaniarural Hall Rd, Rural Hall, NC, on 4/19/2020 12:15. ♦ Johnson, Jamilia Michelle (F/29) Arrest on chrg of Drugs-poss Sched Vi, M (M), at 2598 Nc 66 South/mcneill Rd, Kernersville, NC, on 4/18/2020 11:36. ♦ Key, Rodney Wayne (M/49) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 3825 Grayson Dr, Winston-salem, NC, on 4/19/2020 01:06. ♦ LINEBERGER, DEVONE LAMONT was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 901 W TWELFTH ST on 4/17/2020 ♦ Little, Jonathan Henry (M/27) Arrest on chrg of Adw - Inflict Injury (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 4/18/2020 00:02. ♦ MARSHALL, TERTIA SHIRENE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 2798 PIEDMONT CR on 4/17/2020

♦ Mebane, Steven Clemmons (M/18) Arrest on chrg of 1) Robbery (F) and 2) Robbery (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 4/20/2020 15:40. ♦ MELVIN, CURTIS LEE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3475 PARKWAY VILLAGE CR on 4/20/2020 ♦ Miller, Roddrick Leon (M/26) Arrest on chrg of 1) Robbery (F) and 2) Burglary-1st Degree (F), at 2198 Lewisville-clemmons Rd/sedalia Dr, Clemmons, NC, on 4/20/2020 01:09. ♦ MOCTEZUMA, FRANCISCO AGAMA was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 900 N CLEVELAND AV on 4/20/2020 ♦ MOORE, GREGORY JEROME was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 200 PLAZA HOLLOW DR on 4/17/2020 ♦ NELSON, SETH JAMES WELDON was arrested on a charge of BREAKING/LARCFELONY at 224 S CHERRY ST on 4/19/2020 ♦ ORDONEZ, DORIS MARISOL was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 2600 KIRKWOOD ST/W TWENTYSIXTH ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ PARKER, MARCUS DAWAYNE was arrested on a charge of ADW-OTHER WEAPON at 201 N CHURCH ST on 4/17/2020 ♦ RIVERS, COURTNEY MORIAH was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-POSS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCEMETHAMPHETAMINE>LESS THAN 1 at 10 TIMLIC AV on 4/17/2020 ♦ Salazar, Edgar Reyes (M/41) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Stolen Goods (F) and 2) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked (M), at Nb 311/high Point Rd_nb 311 Ra, Kernersville, NC, on 4/17/2020 16:29. ♦ SIMMONS, BILLY JACKSON was arrested on a charge of

ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 531 AKRON DR on 4/17/2020 ♦ STALEY, SAMANTHA MORGAN was arrested on a charge of 1ST DEGREE TRESPASS at 125 LOCKLAND AV on 4/18/2020 ♦ Triplin, Morgan Douglas (M/30) Arrest on chrg of 1) P/w/i/s/d Marijuana (F), 2) Maintain Vehicle (F), and 3) Ccw (M), at Sb 52/germanton Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 4/19/2020 05:35. ♦ VANDUZEN, EZEKIEL EZEKIEL was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 7760 NORTH POINT BV on 4/18/2020 ♦ Warden, Amber Brittany Crews (F/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Concealing Mdse (M) and 2) 2nd Degree Trespass (M), at 5198 Reidsville Rd/old Hollow Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 4/16/2020 13:27. ♦ WEEKS, JACOB ALLEN was arrested on a charge of 1ST DEGREE TRESPASS at 399 LOCKLAND AV/QUEEN ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ White, Danielle Nicole (F/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) P/w/i/s/d Sched Ii (F), 2) P/w/i/s/d Sched Ii (F), 3) Maintain Dwelling (F), 4) Drugs-poss Sched Ii (M), 5) Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 6) Ccw (M), at 4751 S Main St, Winston-salem, NC, on 4/16/2020 00:40. ♦ WRIGHT, DESMOND RENEE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 1500 ARDSLEY ST on 4/18/2020 ♦ YOUNG, TIMOTHY AARON was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 2020 S HAWTHORNE RD on 4/18/2020

DEATH NOTICES ♦ Judy Ann Yountz Boles, 71, died April 20, 2020. ♦ Felice Elizabeth Bush, 94, died April 15, 2020. ♦ Martha Josephine “Jo” Cochran, 95, of Arbor Acres, died April 15, 2020. ♦ William “Stan” Stanley Dunn, 83, of WinstonSalem, died April 17, 2020. ♦ Marcus Marcellus Gulley, M.D., 96, of Winston-Salem, died April 15, 2020. ♦ Arlene Stanley Heiser, 91, of Mocksville, died April 15, 2020. ♦ Robert Langdon Montgomery, 95, died April 18, 2020 ♦ Barbara Litaker Moser, 73, of Kernersville, died April 18, 2020. ♦ Michael Steven Parks, Sr., 65, of WinstonSalem, died April 18, 2020. ♦ Jeannette Walker Pilcher, 79, of Forsyth County, died April 18, 2020. ♦ Angie Reid, 44, died April 15, 2020. ♦ Marlowe George Rohde, 101, died April 15, 2020. ♦ Philip Ray Shelton, 76, of Winston-Salem, died April 16, 2020. ♦ James “Hassell” Warden, 62, of Forsyth County, died April 17, 2020.

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This April 21, 2010 file photo shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southeast tip of Louisiana. termined the BP blowout was preventable. Regulators and industry leaders say they’ve employed lessons from the April 20, 2010, disaster to make deep-water drilling safer by setting tougher construction and enforcement standards. “I think the event 10 years ago really initiated kind of a new day in offshore safety,” said Debra Phillips, of the American Petroleum Institute, a standards-setting trade association. Companies have a financial interest in preventing a repeat of the 2010 disaster, which cost BP more than $69 billion in cleanup, fines, fees and settlements. Questions over environmental effects linger, and litigation continues over health problems suffered by cleanup workers.

Competing oil giants joined in the disaster’s wake to create the Marine Well Containment Co., which has equipment and vessels positioned regionwide to quickly corral oil if another major spill occurs. “All of (the) industry wanted to make sure that nothing like it could ever happen again,” said CEO David Nickerson, at the company’s complex near Corpus Christi on Texas’ coast. He was dwarfed by “capping stacks”” — multistory structures of piping, valves and gauges designed to be lowered to halt a major high-pressure blowout. In the past year, the industry began producing crude for the first time from ultra-high pressure crude reserves in the Gulf. Overall production hit a record 2 mil-

lion barrels a day before the coronavirus pandemic caused demand to plummet. Pressures in those wells can approach 20,000 pounds per square inch, compared with almost 12,000 pounds for Deepwater Horizon. “Higher risk, higher pressure, higher temperatures, more reliance on technology — it’s just a tougher environment to operate in,” said Lois Epstein, a civil engineer at the Wilderness Society who served on a government advisory committee post-spill. Trump administration changes have intensified debate over how tightly the government should regulate, and what decisions should be left to industry professionals. Much of the discussion centers on rules intended to keep wells under control, such as requirements for blowout preventers that failed in the spill. The 2016 rule required companies to test the blowout preventers every 14 days. The Trump administration allows companies to test every 21 days, saying more frequent testing would risk equipment failure. As deep-water activity has expanded, the number of inspections carried out by the government’s safety bureau has declined. Bureau spokesman Sandy Day said the inspection figures reflect visits by inspectors to rigs, platforms and other facilities. Day said the data doesn’t reflect electronic records reviewed remotely or the increased time spent at each facility and all inspection tasks performed. Those, he said, have

increased from 9,287 in 2017 to 12,489 last year. The agency didn’t provide a breakdown. “While on the facility we did numerous inspections of different items,” Day said, including equipment for preventing blowouts, fires, spills, or other major accidents. He said electronic records allow more work to be done from shore, rather than digging through paperwork on site. The number of warnings and citations issued to companies for safety or environmental violations peaked in 2012 and has since fallen even faster than inspections. The decline accelerated under the current administration, agency documents show. Fewer inspection visits and fewer citations suggests the safety improvements that took hold after the 2010 spill are unraveling, said Matt Lee-Ashley, former deputy chief of staff at the Interior Department. “There is a value in having inspectors on board frequently. You have to establish a culture of enforcement,” said Lee-Ashley, now with the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning advocacy group. Industry representatives maintain that inspection numbers don’t automatically translate to less effective oversight. Inspectors are less interested than in the past in technical violations and are focused on making sure comprehensive safety systems are in place to prevent major accidents, said Erik Milito, of industry trade group the National Ocean Industries Association.