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Column: Budgets: Why should we care?

Government budgets will never be high on the must-read list. But they should be.

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Editorial: Budget plan smells of recovery

Garner’s $23.8 million budget proposal is another sign that the economic outlook is improving.
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Editorial: Bullish approach isn’t helpful

State legislators are making a lot of changes with respect to local government. It’s too bad they didn’t work with towns and counties to craft legislation that achieves their goals, but gives local government a role in those decisions.
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Editorial: Judging Wake’s next superintendent

Garner residents don’t want to miss the opportunity to weigh in on Wake County’s choice for the next school superintendent.
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Column: Garner more than just a farming community

Garner is fertile ground for those of us in the news business.
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Editorial: A message not heard enough

Teenage drivers think they are invincible. They don’t try to get in wrecks. But the fact is their judgment isn’t always sound. The results of poor judgment can’t be explained too much.
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Once again, Garner folks answer call

Some on the Garner Town Council and in Town Hall wondered whether they could raise enough money privately to pay half the cost of sending a delegation to Denver for the All America City competition. They feared private donors were tapped out after generously supporting the Garner Veterans Memorial...
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Change afoot on website, editor’s desk

Here are a few updates I want to share.
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Hog farmers turn green

Who would have thought two decades ago that North Carolina hog farmers would prove pivotal in preserving an environmental law?
OPINION

How should Tar Heel state pay for its roads?

My father was born in 1922 on a farm in rural Ohio. Horses and carriages were as common as cars. When the first road was built, it was tolled, meaning only those who paid the gatekeeper at the entrance to the road could use it.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reader writes: GOP deconstructing government

In a recent column, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation, a conservative, small-government think tank, argued that our recently elected governor was playing “small ball” in his first 100 days.