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The “Good Samaritan” In Real Time Over 2000 Years Later: Cleveland Hero Mr. Charles Ramsey
Life is said to be peculiar with its ups and downs. Economics, education and an eventual twist that headlines around the world, are all possibilities if you are willing to step outside of your world, and enter another as a “neighbor.” Doing well is not a headliner that draws a lot of attention. Typically, network…
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Senate Votes to End Tax Free Shopping On The Internet: Does This Help Rural Communities?
Rural counties have a very difficult task competing with online retailers. E-commerce has had an impact on the erosion of its tax base making it tremendously difficult to meet growing demands. County leadership continues to operate in an environment fueled by citizen discontent for their inability to expand the number of services the community needs…
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Lean In: Can Poor Women “Lean In” As Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s New Controversial Book Challenges Women To Do?
Whether women control 80% of household spending, or they control 73%, the point to be made is that women control an enormous amount of wealth. If you compare the amount of money, they control – alongside their controlling interest on board’s committees, and commissions, the room for parity are so overwhelming that you can fit…
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A Beautiful Mind Can Imagine Just About Anything: Harvard University’s “RoBoBee” Found First in the Imagination and Then Taken to Market
In the laboratory of Harvard University, engineers create a “RoboBee” a tiny robotic device that flies and looks like an insect. With this device in a miniature form, it has the capacity to be used to meet endless needs in both urban areas-traffic, and rural areas as well- pollination. Just think, without a healthy imagination…
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Leading During Tough Times: Completing a County Leadership Team to Serve at the Pleasure of an Elected Board
North Carolina with all of its beauty is challenged by abject poverty in areas of the state that continues to struggle to get its footing. Charged with the responsibility of discovery is an elected body of officials along with a county executive that manages the work. In the absence of a manager with the technical…
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Opposing a Republican Legislature: NC NAACP President Dr. William Barber and 17 Others Protest and are Arrested at the NC General Assembly
Growing concern over shifts in public policy that directly impacts the poor is causing unrest by some of the nation’s most stalwart advocates for the poor. Mounting hardships are driving a call to respond to legislation aimed at some of the state’s most vulnerable. On Monday at the General Assembly in Raleigh, NC, the President…
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Breaking News: President Obama Looks to North Carolina for New Secretary of Transportation: Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx Chosen
With the appointment of Foxx as US Transportation Secretary, comes the challenges faced by outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. An immediate issue has been a sequestration matter. Budget cuts and furlough of aviation employees fueled an intense week of air travel sending the House and the Senate, back to the table to reverse the furloughs. …