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Does time heal all wounds?
Will John Edwards someday be the new Newt Gingrich? Where did this crazy question come from? To get the answer, read on. First, we should wrestle with the questions political experts have been...
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Finding my words, a way to pay tribute
A writer with no words has a serious problem. My brother, Maj. Samuel Griffith, was killed in action in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 14, 2011. For the last month, I’ve struggled to fin...
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Time to hang up on irritating cell phone use
Walking through a local mall one day during the Christmas season, I noticed several people with these fancy cell phone ear attachments hanging from their ears. With the microphone dangling in fron...
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Time for retirement plan distributions?
You may not have the pictures, suntan or souvenirs to show for it, but if you’re at least 70-1/2, you’ve just finished a “vacation.” And that means you’ll have to do some work — on determining how...
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Give the gift of love all year round
The Holiday Season certainly is a time for spreading love and compassion among our family, friends and sometimes even strangers. However, we should make it our mission to keep the river of love th...
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Talk to your children (and parents) about shared financial picture
It’s Thanksgiving week. And if you’re fortunate, you can look around your Thanksgiving table and see several generations of your family. Of course, as you know, many types of cohesiveness are invo...
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Occupy Christmas by shopping locally
by Kelly Griffith
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“If you really want to occupy Wall Street, shop locally.” That is the message used as the profile photo for the Fuquay-Varina Revitalization Association on Facebook. I saw the words a couple wee...
Recalling Thanksgiving post 9-11
by D.G. Martin
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en years ago, still reeling from the events of September 11, I tried to put Thanksgiving in perspective and wrote the following: I have been waiting for this Thanksgiving holiday week. Ever si...
The Republican nominee: It’s going to be Rick Perry
by By D.G. Martin
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Don’t write off Rick Perry. You ask, why not? Because he is going to be the Republican nominee for President and will give Barack Obama a heck of a race next fall. You are laughing, aren’t y...
Breathe stress out of busy season with yoga
by By Janet Kangas
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The next two weekends are two of the busiest weekends of the fall. Day in Downtown on Main Street in Fuquay-Varina is an event that the whole family can enjoy. It runs from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. and of...
Hard to find dirt on this politician
by By D.G. Martin
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Every politician is the object of critical, unfriendly, and just plain bad comments. That is the rule. But retired journalist and biographer Ned Cline may have found an exception. He had to look...
Where were you on 9/11?
by Janet Kangas
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The morning glories are in bloom. I know not too many people besides me cares about that but I love them. It means that the heat of the summer is cooling off just a little and fall can’t be too far...
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