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Opinion
  1. Student praises journalism teacher for ability to connect
  2. Public enthusiastic about PUD initiative
  3. Newspaper should not have printed letter
  4. The liberal media protecting Obama
  5. State help for higher education dwindling, needs stabilizing
  6. Fundamentalism is bad for a free republic
  7. As the election nears, put on your thinking cap
  8. North Carolina sees a step backward from progress
  9. Obama took control of our careening ship
  10. Former governor shows muscle on national stage in China