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4/17 -	Four Futures for Mountain Farmland Symposium
4/17 -	Smithsonian scientist to speak on climate change
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4/16 -

Obama claims GOP attempts to restrict voting rights for elderly, women, minorities and impoverished to cast ballots in swing states

4/16 -

States crack down on for-profit colleges to protect students with loan debts

4/16 -

Homeless Jesus statue in Davidson, NC receives both praise and scrutiny

4/15 -

Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources finds possible link between seismic activity and fracking

4/15 -

New CBO budget predictions for Obamacare for the 2015–2024 period: $104 billion less than the previous projections; it's working

4/15 -

NRDC: With only 100 or so panthers still alive in Florida, EPA still considering oil-wastewater disposal well near prime habitat

4/15 -

New NC tax code results in higher taxes for middle class, less revenues available for public works, more money for wealthy

4/14 -

Latest voter suppression trick: Miami-Dade blocks voters standing in line from using bathroom

4/14 -

WaPo: "Republicans kiss votes from women goodbye"

4/14 -

Polling data says McCrory's approval ratings still "under water"

4/14 -

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Economic recovery limited to high-income households

4/13 -

National Hispanic University in CA to close in 2015

4/13 -

Black Girl Travel, an international travel club, addresses criticism that it encourages black women to date men from other countries

4/13 -

Jackson county teachers share views on NC education reform

4/13 -

National Wildlife Federation report concludes wildlife is still being affected by BP oil spill of 2010

4/13 -

Medicaid requires substance abuse treatment to the newly insured, but barriers remain that limit access

4/09 -

Former actress from 'Star Trek: Voyager' and 'Star Trek: Nemesis' narrates new documentary that argues the sun revolves around the Earth

4/09 -

Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma opens new $2-million center for veterans

4/09 -

New dust bowl blows into southern Colorado after four years of drought

4/08 -

Despite hysteria, little if any evidence of voter fraud in NC

4/08 -

Healthcare reform brings coverage to millions of Americans; number of uninsured citizens reaches new low

4/08 -

Democratic governors reluctant on marijuana legalization despite widespread public support

4/08 -

American Civil Liberties Union investigates NC prisons for compliance with federal prison rape law

4/07 -

NC ban on gay marriage my be overturned by Court of Appeals

4/07 -

Kalamazoo, MI turns to free higher education as a way to revitalize community

4/07 -

NC enacts law requiring marijuana grown in state to have tax stamps affixed; prior law struck down as double jeopardy

4/07 -

NC receives 'B' from SPLC on teaching about civil rights; twenty states receive failing grades

4/06 -

Search for missing plane reveals a world's oceans clogged with trash

4/06 -

NC judge denies Duke Energy's motion to shield records on coal ash leaching into groundwater at 33 sites in the state

4/06 -

Lumbee Supreme Court reduces sanctions against former Tribal Council Speaker Pearlean Revels

4/06 -

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider same-sex marriage ban that could affect North Carolina's Amendment One

4/06 -

Retrospective of works of murdered AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus span war zones to London 2012 Olympics

4/05 -

California wait-list for Obamacare at least 1/2 million -- meaning signups will easily beat expectations

4/05 -

NC statewide school board calls for test of online charter schools

4/05 -

Mississippi legislature passes ban on abortion at 20 weeks of gestation without exception for rape or incest

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