It’s up to the N.C. State Board of Elections to decide whether Art Pope, the Raleigh conservative, broke any rules in his attacks on former House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan and the breakaway Republicans. What’s clear is that Pope’s money helped fuel a purge within the GOP, punishing legislators who made deals with the Democratic majority […]
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Black day at the IHOP
The infamous meeting at the International House of Pancakes in Salisbury between disgraced former legislator Michael Decker and House Speaker Jim Black may or may not get Black indicted. But it certainly opened the window on Black’s style of fundraising. Decker, then a Republican, says he got $38,000 in campaign checks and $12,000 in cash […]
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Sammy Flippen’s clemency bid
No two capital murder cases are alike, but even at that, Sammy Flippen’s case seems altogether different. Flippen is scheduled to be executed after midnight on Friday, Aug. 18 at Central Prison in Raleigh. He was convicted in 1995 of killing his 2-year-old stepdaughter, Britnie. He was 25 at the time. He’s 36 now. He […]
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‘Like a rebirth’
I see from Art Howard’s wonderful pictures that Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker was smiling (not grinning wildly, that’s not our Charles, but somebody told me he was about to bust it, and why not?) as he led the motorcade Saturday night onto Fayetteville Street. I couldn’t see him, because I was stationed in the Indy‘s […]
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Horseshoe turn: Raleigh board nixes nature
I have to admit, it took awhile for me to register exactly why I was so bothered watching the Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Greenways Advisory Board dismember the plan for Horseshoe Farm Park, a 146-acre tract on the Neuse River in North Raleigh. A master plan committee had toiled for 14 months and, after much […]
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Raleigh unmalled, unveiled
When they strike up the music on Saturday and christen the new Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh, Marc Scruggs will be somewhere in the crowd, smiling. Probably he’ll be in front of the historic Briggs Building at 220 Fayetteville St., which used to be his family’s hardware store and is now home to various offices […]
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Can a Pope sin?
Imagine, if you will, that a very wealthy man–let’s call him Art Pope–decided he’d had it with Republican legislators who were, in his view, nothing but RINOs (Republicans in Name Only). Imagine that he helped to organize a group–let’s call it Republicans Legislative Majority Committee -N.C.–which incorporated itself as an “advocacy committee” under Section 527 […]
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Tax-increment financing for everybody!
Dear Mayor Meeker & Raleigh City Councilors: You’ll be pleased to learn that I am contemplating a great improvement of our property at 202 E. Park Drive, which as you know is in a strategically important location for Raleigh’s growth, very close to a future transit line if y’all ever put one on Hillsborough Street. […]
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In denial
“We will stay. We will fight. We will prevail.” It could have been George III addressing his troops in 1776. But it was George W. Bush, addressing his troops at Fort Bragg Tuesday, the Fourth of July, 2006. How delusional is this man? Not content with the quagmire he’s created in Iraq, he essentially declared […]
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Coalition pushes bill to ease ballot access
There was a time in American history, Chatham County resident Ed King wants us to know, when elections were chock full of different, often progressive ideas. And voter turnout was high–about 80 percent of the (admittedly quite limited) eligible adults voted in national elections, not the current 50 percent. The time? 1876-1892. The reason? The […]
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