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The illness: Big-money campaign contributions
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As King said, we can’t just look away
Did you see President Bush Sunday on 60 Minutes re: Saddam’s hanging? Asked if he’d seen the video, Bush said yeah, part of it, but thenand he literally turned up his nose at this pointhe said he quit watching before the body fell and the neck snapped. What, he’s squeamish? This veteran of 152 executions […]
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NCSU hesitates; Hillsborough St. plans in limbo
When Mitch Silver came to Raleigh as the city’s new planning director 18 months ago, he naturally started looking around for the cool redevelopment opportunities in town. Which soon brought him to Hillsborough Street. Why was it so bedraggled, he wondered, when it should be “a special place in the city”? Soon Silver was studying […]
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What happened to North Carolina’s moratorium on executions?
With the image of Saddam Hussein’s hanging fresh in the public mind, the House Select Committee on Capital Punishment met in Raleigh last week to hear testimony about whether our state, too, should continue to execute murderers, and if so, which ones. In North Carolina, of course, executions aren’t conducted with a rope at dawn, […]
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At Raleigh’s City Plaza, everybody gets to play
Without doubt, I am a public-participation whore. Give me a seat at the tableany table, as long as it’s not in another roomand a generous supply of blue, red and yellow stickies, and I’m a happy citizen, ready to make my opinions known on subjects ranging from the occupation in Iraq (blue on “get out, […]
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Sgt. Ricky Clousing went AWOL over atrocities
The first day he was deployed in Iraq, in November 2004, Sgt. Ricky Clousing found himself standing guard at the rear of an Army convoy after it stopped on a Baghdad street. His job was to turn back any vehicles that approached. So when a car turned toward them from a side street, he raised […]
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The end of Ho Ho Hum
I was going to launch this last Citizen column of 2006 with a blast at the sort of stupidity that would allow you to hand a developer $75 million of public money for an enormousand privately ownedparking deck at North Hills, while at the same time you can’t find $40 million to buy the 306-acre […]
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Welfare for developers? TIF debate heats up
If Charles Meeker does run for a fourth term as Raleigh mayor in 2007, as my sources now tell me he will (and yes, I predicted he wouldn’t), a big reason will be to stop the City Council from opening up the cookie jar also known as TIF to their developer pals. I mean in […]
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