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Been thinking about the death penalty: Yes or No?
Published February 25, 2021
Last few days I’ve been thinking about the death penalty in North Carolina. Truth is, once in a while, I’ve thought about the death penalty as long as I can remember.
When I was a boy, delivering the Daily Advance newspaper in Elizabeth City, there’d be an occasional story about an execution in the gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh. People would talk about it for a day or two, both sides arguing about right and wrong; crime and punishment; an eye for an eye; the living and the dead. Perhaps a minister offering a prayer for the felon. Raleigh was a long way away and an execution there was Out-of-sight out-of mind.
The death penalty: Yes or No?
Published February 3, 2021
Last few days I’ve been thinking about the death penalty in North Carolina. Truth is, once in a while, I’ve thought about the death penalty as long as I can remember.
When I was a boy, delivering the Daily Advance newspaper in Elizabeth City, there’d be an occasional story about an execution in the gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh. People would talk about it for a day or two, both sides arguing about right and wrong; crime and punishment; an eye for an eye; the living and the dead. Perhaps a minister offering a prayer for the felon. Raleigh was a long way away and an execution there was Out-of-sight out-of mind.
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Ewing v. Med-1 Solutions, Judge Sweeney II of the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted summary judgment for the defendant, regarding the plaintiff’s allegation that the defendant violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by reporting her debt to TransUnion after the plaintiff disputed the debt. In its ruling, the court highlighted that a company that takes
reasonable precautions and maintains
reasonable procedures to avoid clerical or factual mistakes satisfies the third element in maintaining a bona fide error defense to an alleged FDCPA violation.
In that case, the defendant sent the plaintiff debt collection letters in 2015 regarding medical services, and the plaintiff disputed the debt in 2016. Upon receipt of the plaintiff’s dispute letter, the defendant’s receptionist inadvertently forwarded the letter to the wrong department, and the dispute was not reported. When a 2018 TransUnion credit report indicated that the dispute of the deb
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PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg City Council members will gather Friday to discuss the issues they hope to focus on this year.
Council President Zach Stanley said he wanted to have a workshop similar to the forum former Councilman John Reed organized when he served as president in 2018.
“It was a good way to kind of get everybody on the same page,” Stanley said.
Everyone who runs for council has certain goals they want to accomplish or issues they hope to address, Stanley said. The workshop is a chance for the five incumbent and four new members of council to discuss these goals, see how they fit into the city’s role of providing essential services and set priorities in concert with the administration, he said.