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Palin to Greenville
Monday, October 06 2008
by Dave DeWitt
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Governor Sarah Palin is coming to North Carolina. The Republican candidate for vice president will speak in Greenville Tuesday night. Her visit solidifies North Carolina as a battleground state in the upcoming presidential election. It is her first visit to North Carolina and the first visit by anyone on the republican ticket since the convention. Barack Obama is also in the state. He held a rally in Asheville on Sunday. He is expected to stay in western North Carolina to prepare for Tuesday’s presidential debate in Nashville Tennessee. The latest polls show the presidential race in North Carolina to be a dead heat.
New Citizens - New Voters
Friday, October 03 2008
by Leoneda Inge
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Naturalization offices across the country are busy these days, leading up to the November elections. North Carolina is no different. The new US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Durham is holding two naturalization ceremonies a day in order to get through the backlog and allow new Americans to vote in their first presidential election. Leoneda Inge attended one of the ceremonies this week that was more than just an assignment:
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Gamer Dreams
Friday, October 03 2008
by Dave DeWitt
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Blake Peebles is one of the best in the world at a very specific thing. He plays Guitar Hero, a video game where the player mimics a real lead guitarist for a rock and roll band. It’s become more than just a game for the North Raleigh teenager. He and his family have gone to great lengths to help him become a professional “gamer.” Top players on the major league gaming circuit make half-a-million dollars a year. Dave DeWitt reports.
Elizabeth Edwards on Health Care
Thursday, October 02 2008
by Rose Hoban
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Elizabeth Edwards visited a Carrboro clinic to lead a roundtable on health care. She skewered Republican presidential candidate John McCain's proposals on health care. But she declined to endorse Senator Barack Obama's plan. Edwards says the only health care plan that makes sense would be one that mandates coverage for everyone. She compares it to car insurance.
"Not everybody’s going to have an automobile accident, but everybody buys the insurance and therefore it costs each of us a little less. Not everybody’s house is going to catch on fire, but we all buy the insurance and it costs us a little less. If only sick people bought insurance it would cost us lots, lots more. So it’s important that everybody share the burden and the protection of being insured."
Edwards says she'll spend from now until election day talking publicly about health care. She says she's feeling fine and her doctors tell her her cancer has not progressed.
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