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<title><![CDATA[Miss Sarah Foster: A tribute ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/nov/17/miss-sarah-foster-tribute/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In the simpler and more innocent times captured in American Graffiti, adolescent towns on the brink of cityhood often had a "Central High School."  Charlotte was such a town.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:09:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hastings' haunted hill]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/23/hastings-haunted-hill/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of the 19th century, Charles Hastings, my maternal grandfather, built a house near Kernersville on rising ground. The house and land eventually became known as Hastings Hill. Charles was known within the family as Chag.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:26:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pause to reflect, then fire up the chain saw]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/17/pause-reflect-then-fire-chain-saw/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It occurred about two or three weeks ago, and it has taken me this long to get over it.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trolley going over the hill]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/07/trolley-going-over-hill/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The imminent demise of overhead wire, externally-powered trolley line construction has been the subject of so many of my columns that a decent respect to the opinions of the readers requires that I declare some technology-related reasons for their predicted obit.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['An honor and a privilege']]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/05/honor-and-privilege/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is an important day in the life of the city - it's Election Day.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian Ouija]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/23/russian-ouija/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In the late 1800s when Arthur Conan Doyle and a host of other leading lights were preoccupied with spiritualism, a parlor game was introduced to cash in on the trend.  It was called "Ouija."]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:13:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Elephant or donkey? Somebody tell me]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/11/elephant-or-donkey-somebody-tell-me/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I have nearly 63 years of experience knowing who and what I am. I know that I love my Washington Redskins. I hate the Yankees (who doesn't?). I think Frank Sinatra was the best singer in the world, and roast beef and mashed potatoes are a gift from God.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Football fever must be in the genes]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/10/football-fever-must-be-genes/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It's that time of the year again. Time to throw on your jersey, flip on the big screen and scream at the TV as if it will help your favorite football team.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Renaissance folks]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/02/renaissance-folks/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[To compliment someone by referring to her or him as a "Renaissance" person is to allude to a rebirth and flowering of knowledge in 14th century Italy.  Just as the Renaissance was remarkable for the breadth of its learning -- the arts, engineering, medicine, literature -- a "Renaissance" man or woman is accomplished in several disciplines.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:12:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The mechanics of feedback]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jul/29/291748/mechanics-feedback/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[If you read this and e-mail me at hst2nd@aol.com to say whether you liked, hated or are still pondering the column, that's valuable and appreciated feedback...critical feedback.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:48:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The world shook last month]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jul/15/world-shook-last-month/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[On Monday, June 29, 2009, the world shook a bit, though it didn't make the evening news or the front page -- except perhaps in Topeka, Kansas, the epicenter.  That was the morning when Burlington Northern Santa Fe ("BNSF"), the biggest railroad in the USA, presented to the world the first full-scale hydrail locomotive. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:38:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Savoring the morning thunk]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jul/03/savoring-morning-thunk/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Back in March, Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald wrote a column headlined, "Won't miss the newspaper?  Think again".  The occasion was the last print edition of the The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:13:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Father's smile always endures]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jun/21/fathers-smile-always-endures/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I thought of my father's smile the other day.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Needed: A paradigm flip]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jun/17/needed-paradigm-flip/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A paradigm, per Webster, is a "pattern, example or model."  A "paradigm shift" is a profound change in what's expected -- taken to be the norm -- from something well established to something new, different and perhaps unknown.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:05:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Eden of change]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/may/11/eden-change/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The 1969 movie classic, "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been re-released in the dazzling Blue Ray video format.  I had to have a copy, of course.  It's my all-time favorite flick.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 May 2009 15:22:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One hundred]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/apr/22/one-hundred/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Long before mankind trod the earth on five-toed feet, and perhaps before the first warm-blooded, fur-bearing fore bearers scurried unnoticed between the legs of the dinosaurs they would outlive, the number five was a matter of life and death. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:22:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Democrats, UNC basketball fans have much in common]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/apr/15/democrats-unc-basketball-fans-have-much-common/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[What do Carolina Tar Heel basketball fans and North Carolina Democrats have in common?

Their joy of winning is fading into worry about next year.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In face of challenging times, I-SS is striving for greatness ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/apr/11/face-challenging-times-i-ss-striving-greatness/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[As superintendent of Iredell-Statesville Schools, I take great pride in providing regular updates to the citizens of Iredell County regarding the progress of our school district.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNC basketball, Easter and the chance for a better life]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/apr/07/unc-basketball-easter-and-chance-better-life/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Last weekend North Carolinians, especially Tar Heel basketball fans, found themselves pulled in all sorts of directions.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Hope Franklin was  a true North Carolinian]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/mar/31/john-hope-franklin-was-true-north-carolinian/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It is hard to remember when the nation showered as much attention on a North Carolinian as it did when John Hope Franklin died in Durham last week at the age of 94.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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