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http://66.225.205.104/LL20100415.mp3This week during Morning Edition, WFAE is airing profiles of the three leading North Carolina Democratic candidates…

Software mogul Larry Ellison, who recently purchased the Hawaiian island of Lanai, is finding out that owning an island is not all Mai Tais and hammocks. Along with the island, Ellison bought a relationship with the 3,000 people who live there.

The proposal would make the Anderson School of Management more autonomous and financially independent of the University of California system. But critics — including some faculty — worry the move means the school will stray from its public mission.

An estimated one out of every three Japanese are signed up to play games on their cell phones, helping to grow a mobile gaming juggernaut that's currently dominated by a few Japanese startups. Now, those same startups are eyeing a new playing field — the U.S.

In fiction, Robert Harris explores a financial crash and Jennifer DuBois recounts a fateful meeting. In nonfiction, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze how the U.S. lags, Tony Horwitz looks at abolitionist John Brown and Adam Gopnik considers the meaning of food.

http://66.225.205.104/JR20090727.mp3Nearly half of North Carolina's National Guard troops are currently deployed overseas, more than 4,000 soldiers. The…

http://66.225.205.104/6-30-09gauvreau.mp3School board meetings are notoriously long. And if you like arguments, they're also good theatre. Larry Gauvreau…

http://66.225.205.104/0218nightlife.mp3 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Welcome to Suite, a posh uptown nightspot. Groups of 20 and 30-somethings file past…

When all the advertising and polling and debates and appearances are finished and votes have been cast, only one thing matters in the presidential race — the tally of the electoral college.

New York City has seen some of the worst damage from Sandy. Large parts of Manhattan were without power on Monday night, a building crane was knocked loose, and there were reports of flooding in the city's subway system.

The slightest change in support can tip the North Carolina vote in favor of President Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney.An Elon University poll…

Every ten years, the political party in power gets to redraw voting district lines in its favor. Republicans did it in North Carolina this year, leaving…

There's a palpable anxiety in mountain resort towns this fall. After last season's abysmal skiing and snowboarding revenues, these towns are counting on heavy snow this year to make up for the loss. Now, analysts say without early snow, resorts may suffer a "hangover" from last year's disappointment. Luke Runyon reports for Aspen Public Radio.

When President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came together in the aftermath of the superstorm, pundits took notice of a rare moment of bipartisanship and wondered if more was to come.

The Danish tradition of releasing the Christmas beer on the first Friday in November started with a beloved TV commercial from 1980 for a straight-laced 140 year-old brewing company, and now it's practically a national holiday.

http://66.225.205.104/MT20110131.mp3North Carolina lawmakers are dealing with an estimated budget shortfall of $3.7 billion. Higher education is one of…

http://66.225.205.104/JR20101102.mp3Mecklenburg County voters today are choosing district and superior court judges who will preside over tens of…

http://66.225.205.104/MT20110131.mp3North Carolina lawmakers are dealing with an estimated budget shortfall of $3.7 billion. Higher education is one of…

http://66.225.205.104/JR20101102.mp3Mecklenburg County voters today are choosing district and superior court judges who will preside over tens of…

http://66.225.205.104/SG20100520.mp3Off-the-field trouble is brewing again in the NFL. No, we're not talking about Ben Roethlisberger or Michael Vick.…