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the Common Sense Foundation
The
Common Sense Foundation is North Carolina's progressive think tank promoting
fairness, justice, and opportunity in the state public-policy
debate.
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The Common Sense Foundation has just hired Cat Warren as Communications Director. Click here for our press release.
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Each week the Common Sense Foundation brings you a story, a statistic,
or a quote that will open your eyes and make you think about our state and its
government.
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The Fayetteville Observer: Our View: Failure of lethal injection drugs is another reason to suspend executions
The Rocky Mount Telegram: Nash, Edgecombe among biggest lottery consumers
The Independent Weekly: Poor Execution
The News & Observer: Some in N.C. Get Lackluster Defense
Yes Weekly: Poverty Center Asserts Own Role After Edwards' Exit
The News & Observer: House Member Calls Lapses Forgetfulness
The News & Observer: Mum on 'Jeopardy'
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The Pilot: Race Bias Still Plagues Death Penalty in N.C.
Kinston Free Press: Minimum Wage Hike Gets Mixed Reviews
Wilmington Star: State Earned-income Tax Credit Urged
New 14 Carolina: '07 General Assembly Full of Democrats
Wilmington Star: Strange Bedfellows Make Good Changes in Lobbying
Smoky
Mountain News: Health
Care Costs Remain Important Issues for Voters
Myrtle
Beach Sun News: NC Board Approves Policy Limiting Doctors' Role in Executions
Yes
Weekly: Broad Support for Gay Equal Rights in NC, Study Finds
The
News & Observer: Doctors
to Decide Execution Role
Mountain
Xpress: Low Cost Solutions to the AIDS Crisis
more...
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Legislative Wrap-Up Breakfast,
July 2006
Legislative
Preview Breakfast, May 2006
Thomas
Paine Award, April 2006
 
Message
Madness, January 2006
Click here to see a two-minute video of Message Madness 2006 (you will need QuickTime to view the video; to download QuickTime, click here)
Click here to download a two-minute video of Message Madness 2006.
Click
here to hear CSF Executive Director David Mills discuss our new
death-penalty study and its eye-opening findings that at least 37 people now
on death row had lawyers who would not even qualify under today's standards.
Check out our Public Service Announcement
calling for a two-year temporary suspension of executions and death penalty
study. Once you’ve seen the PSA,
help us put it on the air by making a tax-deductible contribution to the
Common Sense Foundation
.
To view the Public Service Announcement, click on the link below
(you will need QuickTime to view the PSA; to download QuickTime, click
here):
Moratorium
PSA
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find out how to become a Common Sense member.
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