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*Monthly Wrap: Reflections on a month of marriage madness

* The Weekly Month’s Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week month. The Weekly Wrap returns — after a long several weeks of breaking, history-making news. If you follow regularly, you know that I haven’t been able to sit […]

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Weekly Wrap: Marriage Equality in North Carolina

The Weekly Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. This edition of the weekly wrap will be brief, for more than obvious reasons. Simpler sometimes is better (and, boy, doesn’t it help when I’m still slammed covering all […]

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Weekly Wrap: Voting Rights, Elevation Church & Free Speech

The Weekly Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. 1. N.C. voter suppression law partly reversed The biggest political story, by far, this week was the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reverse parts of North Carolina’s far-reaching voter […]

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Weekly Wrap: Could the U.S. ever emulate Scotland’s record voter turnout? Plus: CMPD attends Charlotte hate group rally

The Weekly Wrap. The most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. 1. Scotland votes More than 3 million people voted last week in Scotland’s independence referendum. Officials said it was a record turnout of more than 84 percent of registered voters. In total, […]

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Weekly Wrap: The Queen & Union Jack, Naughty Teen, Obama & CMPD

The Weekly Wrap. The most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. (ICYMI: Yesterday’s post, “Back to the blog and recommitting to self”) 1. Mind Blow: No one has legal authority over the Union Jack? I’m an American. Born here. Bred here. Will probably […]