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David Hoffmann: Local news can bring communities together Hello, I’m David Hoffmann. Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot about our country, our communities and how we find our way back to one another.
NC columnist: 9/11 is our generation's Pearl Harbor moment One of the reasons 9/11 was experienced came from a simple adolescent symptom of belief: that it would not happen because of who we are and wh…
NC columnist: Remembering Sept. 11, 2001, and days, weeks and years after We will never know all the stories of heroism and courage from Sept. 11; yet, we owe it to ourselves to remember the ones we know ...
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