Bob Geary

What: People’s Climate March When: Saturday, Sept. 20, 8 p.m. Where: Three buses are scheduled to leave the Triangle arriving in New York City in time for the 11:30 a.m. march on Sept. 21. A U.N. climate summit begins in New York City Sept. 23. A few spaces were still available and buses may be […]

I met Thomas Crowder in March of 2003. I was putting together a story about Raleigh development issues. Nina Szlosberg, who was knee-deep in them at the time, told me Crowder was a visionary. She was right. When I interviewed him, we talked about context, by which he meant that new development should enhance what’s […]

Under the voucher scheme cooked up by the Republicans in the General Assembly, $10 million a year of taxpayer funding was earmarked for students to attend private, mostly religious schools. Each voucher will be worth $4,200if the plan is upheld by the courts. This, by the way, is the second General Assembly in North Carolina […]

Shortly before resigning as state deputy budget director, Art Pope disclosed that his family-owned company, Variety Wholesalers, plans to open a grocery store in what used to be a Kroger on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Southeast Raleigh. Pope, the Republican financier and the man most responsible for turning state government into a right-wing demolition […]

Republican politicians who control the General Assembly were apparently operating under one or more of the following assumptions during their still-unfinished “short” legislative session: • Most voters, in order to maintain their sanity, pay little attention to what happens in the General Assembly. • Even if voters do pay attention, state budgets are obtuse and […]

For pure, unbridled optimism, you can’t beat a wedding announcement. The couple is golden. Their future is whatever they want it to be. You’re invited to imagine it with them. On Monday, we in North Carolina were treated to such an announcement. Soon, it told us, perhaps very soon, same-sex couples will be permitted to […]