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		<title>Learning the Ropes: The message gets lost if you’re a mess&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bea Quirk It seems business owners are constantly being given advice on how to perfect their messages and grab people’s attention with what they are saying about their companies. But they often forget it’s not just what they say that’s important. What they look like and how they act also create that all-important first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning the Ropes: Words about words, wisdom and warmth in winter&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bea Quirk Libraries are an integral part of the fiber of this community. They touch tens of thousands of people’s lives in a myriad of meaningful  and unexpected ways: People vote there, rent DVDs there because they can’t afford any other kind of entertainment, go there to stay warm when they have no home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Talk on Real Estate: By April 30, the action may turn frantic&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Lindsley Wow.  For those not in the real estate business or who don’t know a first-time buyer getting in line for a federal tax credit, there is a big push happening right now of people looking to make a purchase. The deadline to get a property under contract and qualify is April 30, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: A season for all things&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/03/11/reporters-notebook-a-season-for-all-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hannah Mitchell Growing up in North Carolina’s western Piedmont, I ate tomatoes from my parents’ vegetable garden from a young age. Once I got past the idea of eating those little seeds, I adored tomatoes — in the summertime. In season, the vegetable-like fruit was good enough to eat by itself, as though it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: Celebrating the ability to not infect my coworkers&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Caitlin Coakley I’m leaving work early today because I’m sick. The statement may seem simple to most of you, but for me, it’s still nearly profound. After years of working in restaurants, retail and freelancing to piece together enough to pay the bills, I’ve become conditioned to expect “punishment” for being ill. I waited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: Vintage memories&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Boykin In this issue’s cover story, “Tradition Ticks On,” I write about local business owners who fix and refurbish people’s treasured items. It’s a vocation that’s becoming increasingly rare in our fast-paced, disposable culture. Many folks figure it’s easier to just toss an old or broken item in the trash and get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: Better employed than Facebooking&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Caitlin Coakley I remember when I was in college and had a LiveJournal page that I kept public. An aspiring writer, I wanted an audience, and for a while I actually had a few followers. But I was unnerved one day  at work when my editor — who I didn’t know had even seen my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: A novel experience&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Boykin I’m not what you’d call a strip club kind of guy. But I will say that writing this week’s cover story, If the Shoe Fits, was a lot more fun than reporting on, say, redistricting electoral districts. It’s always refreshing to talk to business people who actually say what’s on their mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: How not to sell&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Caitlin Coakley Yesterday, I bought a new (to me) car. A 2008 Saturn Astra, originally listed at $14,000, knocked down to $10,995. It’s not the first car I’ve owned, or even the first car I’ve purchased. But it’s the first one that I financed and the first one I had to haggle for. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#039;s Notebook: Eye-opening experience&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/02/15/reporters-notebook-eye-opening-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Boykin Sitting bolt upright in the unforgiving wooden benches at the Rowan County Courthouse, my heart jack-hammered in my chest. Along with more than a hundred other people crowded inside the courtroom, I held my breath as the jury filed back inside. At stake was the fate of Josh Griffin, a 24-year-old former [...]]]></description>
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