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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...

Right on the fox 5 weather app its available on the app store and the android market. You can check out our home page on myfoxdc. Com. That is where you can see find the interactive radar right on the home page you can zoom right in to your own neighborhood. Another big story were following tonight the r word debate. Native american leaders gathered the district to gather the redskins controversial name and to ask redskins owners to do away with it. Scott smith and bob barnard join us with the l...

Weather hewlettpackard will be out with quarterly results. Well have the numbers behind the numbers. Stay tuned for all of that. , picture this. Youre watching shark tank and the guys that found ed whatsapp. Mark offered 16 billion to buy. What does kevin oleary say . Kevin will join us. He never holds back. Get his opinion of this mega deal that was announced last night. One of the biggest tech deals we have had. Joining the spate of activity weve had this year generally. 16 billion for a compa...