north carolina
August 22, 2005 -
Will North Carolina become the 16th state to raise the minimum wage? It may happen, but in spite of Democratic leaders in the state senate.
August 10, 2005 -
You may have missed it, but on July 30, Smithfield Foods -- the world's largest hog producer and pork processer, based in North Carolina -- made some very generous gifts to their corporate leadership:
August 1, 2005 -
A Cambodian in the South on eating her home country’s food with American spices, explaining where Cambodia is, and why she doesn’t call herself American.
August 1, 2005 -
For these Japanese women, marrying American soldiers meant leaving everything they knew. So they created their own, unique community in the shadow of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
July 18, 2005 -
Immigration enforcers conducted a little sting operation here in North Carolina last week:
July 6, 2005 -
Given the Bush Administration's inaction on global warming -- his belated acknowledgement this week that human pollution may be a problem notwithstanding -- one has to look for hopeful signs elsewhere that lawmakers take this issue seriously.
June 10, 2005 -
Yesterday brought news that's becoming all too familiar in western North Carolina:
