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    <title>Anthony Foxx&amp;#39;s emergence, plus, Catholic UFOs and bossy generals</title>
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        By John Grooms
      
      
      Welcome, dear readers, to yet another goosebump-raising edition of Ask Boomer With Attitude, live from Charlotte, where the county manager can rack up a string of bad decisions and still get a big fat bonus. One of the questions this week is made up; maybe you can spot it. Dear BWA: I was very disappointed that Creative Loafing did not endorse Anthony Foxx for mayor, and I didn&#39;t like your calling Foxx and Lassiter Tweedle-black and Tweedle-white. -- Lifelong Democrat
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    <category>News/Boomer with Attitude</category>
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Plane crazy: Just when you thought it was safe to fly</title>
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        By Nsenga Burton
      
      
      In the &quot;what were you thinking?&quot; category, a United Airlines pilot was recently arrested for being drunk. Yes, you read right -- for being drunk before piloting United Airlines flight 949, which, by the way, was full and due to leave London&#39;s Heathrow Airport. According to a Nov. 11 article on MSNBC.com, the pilot, Erwin Vermont Washington, 51, is the third U.S. pilot in 13 months to be arrested for being over the strict alcohol limits imposed on airline staff.
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Playing racial-justice roulette</title>
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        By Tara Servatius
      
      
      Suppose the state legislature came up with the harebrained idea to pass a law to exempt the killers of white women from the death penalty, no matter how brutal and premeditated the crime. Kill a black woman, though, and you&#39;d still be looking at possible capital punishment. There&#39;s no way legislators would do something that stupid, you say. The governor, a white woman herself, would never sign it. Well, it appears she did. It&#39;s called the Racial Justice Act, and
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Best of The Blotter 2009</title>
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        By Ryan Pitkin
      
      
      The Blotter is an idiotic weekly crime column published by Creative Loafing and written by an idiotic college student (me) with a dark enough sense of humor to find these ridiculous -- and real -- tales funny. I find content for the column in an endless pile of police reports that media hounds look over throughout the day, hoping to uncover some juicy stories. Although the reports sometimes become tedious, the main room of the police department can be an
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hungering for a true Thanksgiving</title>
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        By AMY GOODMAN
      
      
      &quot;In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,&quot; says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, &quot;For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.&quot; The WFP has launched the Billion for a Billion campaign this week, urging the 1 billion people who use the Internet to help the billion who are hungry. But if you think that hunger is far from our shores, here is some food for
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    <category>News/Breaking the Sound Barrier</category>
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Veterans Day checkup: What&amp;#39;s Obama done for vets so far?</title>
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        By John Grooms
      
      
      It&#39;s the week of Veterans Day, a good time to see if things have improved or not for our military vets. I didn&#39;t serve in the military, but veterans and their concerns have been a personal point of interest for a long time. A college friend was killed in Vietnam, and a high school classmate was mentally wrecked by his experiences in that hellhole. Today, another friend has a son who&#39;s serving in Afghanistan. In my family, my father was
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    <category>News/Boomer with Attitude</category>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Is Quinn Gray a sick woman or a desperate housewife?</title>
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        By Nsenga Burton
      
      
      You can&#39;t make up this kind of story. Some of you may have heard about Quinn Gray, the Jacksonville, Fla., housewife who faked her abduction in order to extort money from her husband. Gray, the mother of two young daughters, alleged that she had been kidnapped, sexually assaulted and held for $50,000 ransom in &quot;hellish conditions.&quot; Upon investigation, authorities learned that it was just a sick plan, hatched by Gray and her 25-year-old lover to extort money from her husband.
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Remembering Infamy: The life and crimes of Rae Carruth &amp;amp;mdash; 10 years later</title>
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        By Jarvis Holliday
      
      
      The No. 89 jersey has been a top-seller for the Carolina Panthers for several years, worn and adored by Charlotteans and NFL fans around the country. But four years before Steve Smith joined the Panthers, that number was worn by another promising young wide receiver. After being drafted from the University of Colorado as the 27th pick in the first round in 1997 by the Panthers, Rae Carruth had a great first season. He led all rookie receivers in receptions
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>White flight drives mayoral results</title>
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        By Tara Servatius
      
      
      In a column called &quot;Charlotte&#39;s last white mayor,&quot; Glenn H. Burkins, editor of the local news Web site Qcitymetro.com, pointed out the obvious last week. &quot;Outgoing Mayor Pat McCrory may well be Charlotte&#39;s last &#39;white&#39; leader,&quot; Burkins wrote, after studying election results. That hits some people funny. When I made the same argument last week, I was called a racist by some callers to my radio show. Burkins, who explained that this was the new reality because Charlotte is &quot;darker,&quot;
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Who put the rainbow in &amp;#39;The Wizard of Oz&amp;#39;?</title>
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        By AMY GOODMAN
      
      
      &nbsp;Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of &quot;The Wizard of Oz.&quot; The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than others, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y. &quot;Yip&quot; Harburg. There&#39;s more to the Scarecrow and the Tin Man than meets the eye, and Harburg&#39;s message has renewed resonance today in the midst of
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>What the Fox?: The phony network&amp;#39;s phony martyrs</title>
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        By John Grooms
      
      
      The supposed &quot;war&quot; between the Obama administration and FoxNews has been one of the stranger interludes in America&#39;s increasingly odd and volatile political scene. As soon as White House Communications Director Anita Dunn stated the obvious, noting that FoxNews &quot;often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,&quot; the always-excitable network predictably dove off the deep end. It&#39;s &quot;an abuse of power by the White House,&quot; and &quot;clear censorship,&quot; they moaned, never mind that
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    <category>News/Boomer with Attitude</category>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Renovatus church opens in Eastland Mall</title>
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        By Cheris Hodges
      
      
      Eastland Mall is a shell of its former self. Once a shopping destination for the entire state, with an indoor ice skating rink and large retail establishments like Belk, Sears and Dillard&#39;s, the mall is now filled with empty storefronts and &quot;For Lease&quot; signs -- leaving shoppers few options. But now, you can find God in the mall. Renovatus (which is Latin for &quot;renovation&quot;), a church that says it&#39;s for people under renovation, has made Eastland Mall its home. The
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Elections could change life in Charlotte and Atlanta</title>
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        By Nsenga Burton
      
      
      Is Charlotte really ready for a black mayor, and is Atlanta ready for a white one? While much of the nation is focused on the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, there are some significant mayoral races happening in the country that have gone under the national news radar. One is taking place in our fair city. Sure, Virginia and New Jersey are important; both states went to Obama in last year&#39;s presidential election and now seem to be
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    <category>News/The N word</category>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Charlotte&amp;#39;s new power base</title>
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        A classic, yet timely, edition of <i>Citizen Servatius</i>...
       
      
        By Tara Servatius
      
      
      Tara&#39;s taking a break this week (she&#39;ll be back next issue), so we&#39;re running a column we ran nearly one year ago -- which touches on race, voting and Judge Bill Belk. As of deadline, it was still the biggest untold story in Charlotte. It is a story of shifting political power here of such magnitude that it jumps out at you when you look at the numbers. Dwayne Collins, head of the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, has noticed
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The tortured logic continues</title>
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        By AMY GOODMAN
      
      
      &quot;Extraordinary rendition&quot; is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He&#39;s a Canadian citizen who was &quot;rendered&quot; by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year. Just this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, dismissed Arar&#39;s case against the government officials (including FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former Attorney General John Ashcroft) who allegedly conspired to have him kidnapped and tortured.
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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