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PW exclusive: Troubled charter school’s decision to hire consultant with checkered past raises concerns

By Greg Childress
10/18/2019

A troubled charter school in the Rowan County town of East Spencer has turned to a man with a checkered financial and criminal history to help it find its footing after a rocky first year that involved parting ways with its management company and finishing the academic year thousands of dollars in the red.

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Survey: Half of UNC-Chapel Hill’s female students experience some form of sexual assault

Survey: Half of UNC-Chapel Hill’s female students experience some form of sexual assault

By Joe Killian
10/17/2019
PW exclusive: Investigation shows NC pension funds hold stock in GenX polluter, Chemours

PW exclusive: Investigation shows NC pension funds hold stock in GenX polluter, Chemours

By Lisa Sorg
10/16/2019
Original Commentary

Amid Trump’s lies, what to do about a problem like Facebook?

By Billy Ball
10/16/2019

When the journalist Michael Kinsley wrote in 1984 that a gaffe “is when a politician tells the truth,” perhaps he saw the future. Kinsley could not, however, have foreseen our current political climate.

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Impeachment, Syria and tonight’s Democratic presidential debate

Impeachment, Syria and tonight’s Democratic presidential debate

By Fletcher McClellan
10/15/2019
To seem rather than to be

To seem rather than to be

By Rob Schofield
10/15/2019
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