A study committee struggling to come up with a rational policy for keeping the millions of e-mail messages that workers receive and send each year ought to reflect on both the spirit and the letter of the state's sunshine laws.
Why would the N.C. Real Estate Commission pass up a chance to impose a rule to help ensure that consumers know early in the home-buying process if their real estate agents have financial motives in showing them a particular home?
In response to "Community colleges ban illegal immigrants" (May 14):N.C. community colleges spend hundreds of thousands of tax dollars on courses such as cake decorating for felons in state prisons.
Molly Yandle, 13, Providence Day School, Charlotte: If I could have legally voted in the North Carolina primary, I think that I would have voted for Obama. I agree with his policies on the Iraq war and education. Additionally, he has a more persistent attitude than the other candidates which will most likely lead him to success. Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race at this point because our state played a huge factor in the campaign, and she suffered quite a loss in our state.
From Hilda Gurdian, publisher and CEO of La Noticia, The Spanish-Language Newspaper, in Charlotte:
Short and snappy comments by anonymous Observer readers on the issues of the day
"A full-blooded American." That's how 24-year-old Josh Fry of West Virginia described his preference for John McCain over Barack Obama. His feelings aren't racist, he explained. He would just be more comfortable with "someone who is a full-blooded American as president."
It's a ping-ping match gone mad. At one end, paddle in hand, is Scott Ralls, new president of the N.C. community college system. He's working up a powerful sweat swiftly swatting the ball.
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It's a ping-ping match gone mad. At one end, paddle in hand, is Scott Ralls, new president of the N.C. community college system. He's working up a powerful sweat swiftly swatting the ball.
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Loyd Dillon of Charlotte asks the question that's on a lot of minds: If Hillary Clinton were president, what would Bill do? Here's his take:
