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    <title><![CDATA[More lessons from 2009 elections]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12267.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Harris Jenkins is a bright young man, but we're not buying his analysis of the mayoral race in Selma.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12267</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[This Week in Johnston History]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12265.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Johnston County was ranked the 45th richest farm county in the nation. Several local women joined the WAVES to help in the war effort, and a soldier from Pine Level received the Purple Heart.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12265</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your Letters]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12256.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[You recently ran an article titled "Did Gideons cross the line?" In the article, staff writer Andrew Kenney reported that a parent complained that her son was given a Bible at school.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12256</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Audit raises good questions]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12255.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[In 1999, state lawmakers created a foundation to manage half the state's proceeds from a multi-billion-dollar national tobacco settlement.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12255</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the campaign]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12148.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Congratulations to David Grady, the once-and-future mayor of Kenly. Last week, he did what few challengers ever do -- he trounced an incumbent.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12148</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Write-in bids are selfish]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12151.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[I don't like write-in campaigns. Nothing personal against the people who launch them -- Princeton's David Holt is among my favorite people -- but if you're going to run for office, you ought to file.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12151</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your Letters]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12146.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Jerry Dodson's letter in the Oct. 14 edition was exactly right. What does the GOP really stand for anymore? Mark Otto tried to tell us in a Nov. 4 letter. But then, what does the Democratic Party stand for?]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12146</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[This Week in Johnston History]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12152.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A Four Oaks man brought a sick Cuban boy to the United States for treatment.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12152</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jury still out on Easley]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12147.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Minus one shocking revelation, Mike Easley might have come out of a State Board of Elections hearing with little more than a fine for his campaign committee.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12147</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reading minds, helping out]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12055.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[This is scary stuff.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12055</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your Letters]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12054.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[If I were a terrorist prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, I would write a letter to all of my radical and terrorist friends throughout the world and let them know the good news in reference to new liberal steps for us:]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12054</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[This Week in Johnston History]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12066.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A fire broke out at two stores on Third Street in Smithfield, one of which was the City Grocery. Both businesses planned to rebuild immediately.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12066</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wishful thinking? I hope not]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/12059.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Here's what I've been thinking lately:]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/12059</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Manager issues apology]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11901.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[For at least two months, Birmah Stemler, a Smithfield resident, had planned a Patriot's Day Tea Party on the steps of the Johnston County Courthouse. The event on Sept. 11 was to coincide with Patriot's Day. Ms.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11901</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[A win-win for taxpayers, employees]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11898.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The Town of Clayton is asking its employees to take a financial stake in their physical health. This might well be the most innovative idea to ever come out of a town hall in Johnston County.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11898</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Public dollars demand full disclosure]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11897.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Smithfield and Selma are spending public dollars to determine if some private lands would make good industrial sites. But leaders of both towns are declining to name the private beneficiaries of this public generosity.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11897</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[The evolution of health care]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11896.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA["Health care" is an expression today's senior citizens seldom, if ever, heard when they were children. In addition, few people living six to eight decades ago had ever heard of health insurance, and I never knew anyone then who bought or had it.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11896</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[This Week In Johnston History]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11895.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Glendale was set to name its first mayor, an honorary position for the unincorporated community. His duties included crowning the "popularity queen" during the Glendale carnival and appearing in a school yearbook.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11895</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Catching up on latest news]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11853.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[After the legislature leaves town in the summer, especially in years when no state offices are up for election, the political news in the state capital can slow to a crawl.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11853</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[This Week in Johnston History]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11847.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Construction of First Baptist Church got under way on South Fourth Street in Smithfield, and The Herald reported that it would be "a handsome building." A Smithfield woman won a mattress for having the best pound cake at the N.C.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11847</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Farm market could give town a boost]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11835.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[I don't cook, unless one counts breakfast on Christmas morning and the occasional grilled-cheese sandwich. Still, I'm rooting for the Clayton Farm and Community Market.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11835</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your Letters]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11827.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Ashley Beasley, the reigning Miss Johnston County, and Michelle Denning, executive director of the Miss Johnston County Scholarship Pageant, were special guests at the Ava Gardner Museum's Festival Gala on the evening of Oct. 9.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11827</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Perdue should clean house]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11729.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[For Gov. Beverly Perdue, scandal can be turned into opportunity.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11729</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Your Letters]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11728.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The news is full of bad things happening in our neighborhoods and around us, things we find hard to believe. The day is long past when we left our doors open without worry of being robbed.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11728</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[High school is more than book learning]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11727.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[We appreciate the connection that Clayton folks feel to their community and their high school. We say this after hearing parents lobby to keep their children within the Clayton High School attendance boundaries.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11727</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Some signs work better than others]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11726.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[I am not among those people who think political signs are litter. To the contrary, I think they are signs, literally, of a healthy republic in which citizens have the freedom to choose their leaders.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11726</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[This Week In Johnston History]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11733.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The N.C. Department of Transportation was getting ready to open Interstate 40 from McGee's Crossroads to I-95 at Benson.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11733</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Johnston looking more like Wake]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11617.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A newspaper called the Garner-Clayton Record isn't necessarily intuitive: Two distinct towns in two different counties. But a couple of events over the last week suggest that Johnston is growing more like Wake every day.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11617</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[New route offers variety, danger too]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11616.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A while back, I changed the route of my downtown walk. Nothing against South Fourth and South Third streets; I was just looking for some new scenery, so now I walk a route that takes me along North Second and North Third streets]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11616</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wind power coming to N.C.?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/11615.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever stayed in an upper-story condo or hotel room in Atlantic Beach, Morehead City or Beaufort knows about the competing views.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.theherald-nc.com/11615</guid>
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