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‘Doors Are Open’: Pilgrim Memorial Church celebrates 125th anniversary

Editor’s Note: Due to a production error, the photo that ran with this story was placed incorrectly on Page A1 in our Nov. 7-8 edition. The entire story runs here. A Jamestown church that began as a Sunday School ministry outreach of downtown’s historic First Congregational Church in ...

Try, try again

Some businesses fail, and people lose jobs. So politicians say, "We must protect workers!" Some states expanded the WARN Act, making it harder to lay off workers. But there's a downside to protection, says economist Allison Schrager. "There is no prosperity, no growth ... no 'upside' ...

Another memorial in song

There have been many events that have happened in the history of our country, that have later been memorialized in song. This past Tuesday, fifty-one years ago, on November 10, 1975, the topic of another memorial song became the idea for another memorial song written and recorded to pay ...

GOP failed to make the argument

One week after the Republican midterm election debacle, questions about how it happened while sorting through the debris that left Democrats in charge of Congress, many governorships and state legislators will likely continue for some time. If the election had been solely about the many ...

NC State names Philip Rivers head coach

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State has officially hired former Wolfpack and NFL quarterback Philip Rivers as head coach, turning to a beloved figure as a first-time coach at the college level to spark its football program. The school announced Rivers' hiring Friday, coming after its board of trustees approved a five-year contract for Rivers in a morning meeting. That was the final procedural step to completing the hire; N.C. State had reached a deal with Rivers after his high school team in Alabama ended its season with a playoff loss. Now, exactly one week after that loss, Rivers is ...

Democrats float to the top of the dome

On a richly colored autumn afternoon, the Capitol was all abuzz, and I went forth expecting the breaking news of the day to be on the House side, with Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth's impeachment vote. Crestfallen after, I walked into the night and realized the more lasting story of the day was ...