Out-of-town label fuels Raleigh protests
Gov McCrory calls demonstrators outsiders as Moral Mondays grow outside the General Assembly. WRAL reports 98 percent of the roughly 400 arrests over weeks are North Carolina residents, including pastors teachers doctors and activists. The piece argues name-calling won t solve policy disputes over Medicaid voter ID education funding and taxes.
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Pat McCrory
General Assembly
WRAL
North Carolina
Senate
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Legislative
Organizing For America
Service Employees International Union
Thom Goolsby
New Hanover County
McCrory
GOP
Debate Over Organ Sales and Transplant Policy Sparks Ethics Row
Syndicated economist Walter E Williams argues for allowing organ sales to ease shortages. He critiques 1984 law restricting payments, compares organ markets to food subsidies, and questions altruism as a sole basis for allocation. He warns against shortages and inequities if donations remain voluntary.
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Health and Human Services
HHS
Kathleen Sebelius
Sarah Munnaghan
Sarah Murnaghan
Congress
Walter E. Williams
George Mason University
Senator Goolsby derides Moral Monday protesters
A Chatham Journal piece quotes North Carolina state senator Thom Goolsby criticizing Moral Monday demonstrators as mostly white angry former hippies. He likens attendees to a circus with clowns and a sideshow and degrades a clergy member, drawing rebuke for uncalled for derision of peaceful protesters and urges upholding constitutional rights.
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Chatham Journal
Thom Goolsby
North Carolina
State Capitol
Goolsby
U.S
Gazette
Raleigh
Letter to the editor cites Lincoln on dedication and freedom
Jim Kellogg from Gastonia quotes Abraham Lincoln urging perseverance after honoring the fallen. He condemns circus performers and argues they embolden wrongdoing while calling for renewed devotion to the nation's cause and a government of the people.
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Abraham Lincoln
Jim Kellogg
Gastonia
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