Letters to the Editor
Steve Lough: How about ‘Free Fallin’ ’?
I feel it is my civic duty to educate Gov. “I didn’t know that! Pat” McCrory about his favorite song, “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty.
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Gordon Uscier: Tax facts not relevant
Just two quick points on Marc Landry’s June 12 column “Our dubious No. 1 rank: in tax rate.”
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Chris Lowell: Gun bill will help
We should agree that our existing political system and government are a direct result of taking up arms against Great Britain years ago. This happened because firearms existed then, as now.
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Roy Brock: Fiscally feckless
In Marc Landry’s June 12 column, he seemed to hold up California as a much better state than North Carolina when comparing state income taxes his daughter would have paid if she were still living in North Carolina against what she paid in California. Landry should have done more research.
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Dennis Brown: NCBC making difference
I read in the June 17 N&O that the N.C. legislature proposes to defund the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (“GOP rolls back Democratic era”).
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Robert Dalton: N.C. in tax middle
I read with interest the writing of your new columnist, Marc Landry, in his June 12 piece “Our dubious No. 1 rank: in tax rate.”
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Fred Crouch: Don’t abort task force
I hope no one misses the sad, ironic hypocrisy of our Republican legislature seeking to protect every fertilized egg while simultaneously aborting the mission of the Child Fatality Task Force.
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Paul Betz: ‘Reckless’ legislation
The Road Worrier’s story about raising the speed limit on some highways to 75 mph (“Speed-loving legislators want 75 mph limit” June 18) provides ample cause for worry.
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Harvey Davis: Let SBI probe Rural Center
The June 16 news story “Rural Center cash helps politicians, the powerful” and the information that politicians, Art Pope and others are using the Rural Center as their own source of funds comes as no surprise to most of us.
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Ray Gorman: High noon in Raleigh
Hey pardner, we’re glad to hear that the N.C. legislature wants more guns in schools, bars, court houses and other public places.
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Billy Ray Hall: Rural Center making economic difference in communities
We are deeply disturbed about articles this weekend in The News & Observer that have painted a partial and inaccurate picture of the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center and its work on behalf of rural communities in North Carolina.


