Editorial: State tax cap a misguided strategy
The North Carolina Senate backs HB-3 to cap income taxes at 5.5 percent and curb deductions, risking higher sales taxes and hurt to homeowners. The piece warns harsher local funding shifts, lower state credit, and slower road and school funding, urging House defeat and voter scrutiny. Originates from Star News editorial.
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State Senate
House
Bill Rabon
Brunswick County
North Carolina
Bud
Sissy
California
Colorado
N.C
Janet Cowell
Bernie Sanders
Notable locals share tributes and praise for community figures
A collection of reader comments honors Mrs Worthy and Mary Lou Johnson, recalls supportive hospital visits, and salutes law enforcement officers. Messages praise Gaston and family friends, recount a heroic fire rescue, and wish officers Wilson and Pate success at a national fitness event in San Diego.
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Gaston
Nancy Lee Farrar
James Worthy
Luke Curry Sr
Penny James Ledford Swanson Jr
Billy Club
Terry Moody
Gastonia
Wilson
Pate
San Diego
G.P.D
Walter Kimble
Letter to the editor condemns cartoon stereotyping and links to NRA
In a fence line letter Nick Anderson is accused of lampooning NRA members and Islam in a cartoon. The writer argues that the root cause of violence lies with people, not guns, and questions political restraint by President Obama and the cartoonist. Lewis Guignard Crouse signs the letter.
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NRA
U.S
Obama
Nick Anderson
Root framework and tools of extremist violence analyzed
Belmont resident Dr. Jim Giermanski argues that radical Islam extremism stems from a core ideology, its clerical framework, and its executioners. He urges focusing on root beliefs, radical teaching networks, and the actors, not on policing weapons or tools. He labels current government policy as failing to address the ideology itself.
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U.S
Europe
Secretary of Defense
FBI
CIA
Joint Chiefs
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