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The Editor’s Notes

Rep. Craig Horn was interviewed on the videocast Tar Heel Teachers. Stay tuned on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube tomorrow to see it when it posts!

Take a look at this special report on NC’s demographics and the impact on rural and urban NC by North Carolina News Collaborative, a partnership of the state’s largest newspapers that aims to provide deeper and broader news coverage to all regions of the state.

Need to know

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