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Stores. Are we sick . Are all those people using the stores patients . [laughter] you are basically saying any place that produces products that grows marijuana is a store you can walk into and buy it. Thats not the same. The number of stores is far fewer. Problem isa, the they are looking at changing their law because people cannot access it. Colorado has set up the system. What we have seen is a dramatic migration away from the medical system. Medical sales have gone down. People are no longer...

The biggest losers have been a textile firms. Because a lot of those jobs, not , just through nafta, but through differences in cost of production went to asia as well. So i dont feel we can blame the loss of the textile industry on nafta. I think it was broader than that. Nafta may have opened the door more widely for jobs to go to mexico, but textile jobs were under global pressure, even without nafta. Now, what does that mean . Because the other side of the equation is that South Carolina has...

I have enough notoriety through the issues i am involved in that certain elements of society know me and know me well, but broadly speaking, it is a nice feeling to have that. That anonymity. Once you get elected president , it is over with. As i think about it, i think my life has been more fulfilling. I think my personal life, my wife and my family, has been much more fulfilling. Much more happy with my being in the senate than it ever would had been in the white house. Remember, those trying ...

Furniture, hosiery and tobacco textile and tobacco capital of the world. Not true anymore. But theres still hanging on, all of those different occupations or professions. My mama was a textile worker so textile legislation was close to home with me. So id say accessibility and looking out for the back home, that the country did not suffer as a result. How has your district changed since 1985 . Oh, tremendously. When we were elected, we had a very compact threecounty district guilford almassas an...

In lunch rooms, when reporters have watched, when they go in their lunch bags, they end up in the trash can because you cant force kids to eat them. Yes and no. Yes and no. Thats another thing. School nutrition standards i changed those, too, thats the school lunch program. But the fruit and Vegetable Program for kids is fantastic. Now over 100 million a year. Low income kids across america are getting free fresh fruits and vegetables with a lot of spillover effect. Kids in lunch room, they thro...

Most recently, we had that was altered somewhat. We kept portions of guilford, alamance, davidson. Picked up a portion of rowan, which would be salsbury, randolph, solid republican county, home of the one of the best zoos in the world, pinehurst, golf capital of america, lost all of that can redistricting. I tell you a story about pinehurst. Dr. Charlie norwood, now deceased, dentist from augusta, georgia. I went to his funeral in augusta. There was an old man about my age with a big sign with t...

Five months after a Pride crosswalk was painted in Westlock, Alta., the town council started the legislative journey on a bylaw that would have to remove the coloured paint.

Petition is asking for the town to only allow white ladder crosswalks and town and provincial flags on town properties.

Petition is asking for the town to only allow white ladder crosswalks and town and provincial flags on town properties.

Petition is asking for the town to only allow white ladder crosswalks and town and provincial flags on town properties.