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Jalynn Harris

Column: Family not bound in blood

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Since I was a child, my family has felt like an expanding universe — a mosaic of non-biological and biological people from all corners coming together. The non-biological ones weren’t revealed as such until I was much older, and none of the step or half relatives I refer to in terms of portions.



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Letter: ​McCrory has no idea what he is saying

TO THE EDITOR: What Pat McCrory doesn’t seem to understand when he talks about House Bill 2 is that nobody is advocating that men be allowed in women’s restrooms. We are advocating that women be allowed in women’s restrooms. 







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Letter: Lincoln was always against slavery

In his recent Letter to the Editor, “Questioning Reasons for the Civil War,” Kearney Smith from Green Mountain quotes H. L. Menken’s take on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which he begins with this sentence from Menken, “It is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense.”


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Letter: ​College gen eds are becoming too easy

TO THE EDITOR: You carried a front-page tab (April 20) headed, “Defeated by Chickens,” and offering the information that “a chanticleer is a rooster.” I noted the item with mixed feelings.


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Letter: ​Getting ready for the second NC primary

Did you know North Carolina is holding a primary election June 7 for Congress in 11 of N.C.’s 13 congressional districts, and also a statewide primary for N.C. Supreme Court Justice the same day?


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Letter: Johnson is wrong about hog farming

TO THE EDITOR: Deborah Johnson is essentially a lobbyist and chief cheerleader for a $15 billion global corporation. Her claims in her April 11 letter that the industry “strictly manages waste” and “takes good care of animals” are hogwash.


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Letter: ​Not all students are grade grubbers

TO THE EDITOR: I understand the message behind the editorial asking students to “Uphold the Carolina Way,” and I feel the author’s angst towards “grade-grubbing.” However, I do not think that it is appropriate or correct to assume that all students trying to change or withdraw their grade are “grade grubbers”.