A friend forwarded this to me. It’s the resignation of an unhappy — to put it mildly — career official in the Asheville regional office of Division of Water Quality in the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). It arrived with the official’s name on the From: line. I removed the name in […]
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Fifty years after the March on Washington, King’s dream of jobs and freedom still eludes us
Events WHAT Strike Day rally WHEN Thursday, Aug. 29, 3:30 p.m. WHERE Martin Street Baptist Church 1001 E. Martin St., Raleigh WHAT OUR (Organization United for Respect) Walmart labor forum WHEN Thursday, Sept. 5, noon–2 p.m. followed by “an action” at a Walmart store WHERE Teamsters Local 391 Union Hall, 6317 Angus Drive, Raleigh MORE […]
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[Updated] Feeding the homeless in Raleigh barred by cops until Mayor and Council intervene.
{A brief update, 6 pm: Food Not Bombs did bring food and they were allowed to distribute it. The Raleigh police stood down after Mayor Nancy McFarlane and numerous Council members intervened today with Police Chief Deck-Brown and Acting City Manager Perry James. Councilor Mary-Ann Baldwin is pulling this issue into her Law & Public […]
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Delightful 12-year-old, 1. Prickly Gov. McCrory, 0.
All I can say is, for a governor Pat McCrory has remarkably thin skin. And a remarkable lack of good grace or — absent grace — any ability to fake it. Consequently, Gov. McCrory missed his chance today to meet a delightful and very precocious young lady. Madison Kimrey is the 12-year old from Burlington […]
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McCrory and Wos lavish pay and power on the unqualified
In June, policy analysts at the RAND Corporation determined that the 14 states that turned down Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care ActObamacarewere making a giant mistake. The 14, Rand said, would lose $8.4 billion a year in federal funds while denying 3.6 million of their residentsthe working poora chance to obtain affordable health insurance. […]
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NCDP on Sen. Kinnaird: A true Tar Heel hero.
State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird of Orange County, a leading progressive voice on a wide range of issues, is leaving the General Assembly after 17 years in the Senate. Her departure comes on the heels, as it were, of decisions by state Reps. Jennifer Weiss, D-Wake, and Deborah Ross, D-Wake, to leave as well — Weiss […]
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2013 elections begin with Russell Allen and the scandal he left behind
Finally, the siege of Raleigh has been lifted. The General Assembly is gone, having done its worst. The city endures, and September offers us a welcome respite with the return of our best cultural events, including Sparkcon, Hopscotch, Bikefest, the African-American festival and, this year, the World of Bluegrass, a premiere gathering that we copped […]
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The Top 10 Republican mistakes
We were jockeying for position in the Target store in Raleigh, the moms and kids and I all racing for the pens, pads and back-to-school bargains on the last-ever sales tax holiday weekend in North Carolina, when it struck me: Our state Republicans are their own worst enemies. I’m not talking here about their reactionary […]
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In September, Raleigh’s M.A.I.N. is our best events — it’s so NOT the General Assembly
So happy to be downtown in Raleigh today and have it NOT be about the General Assembly and the newest miseries the Republicans could inflict. But they’re GONE, the Republicans — well, not ALL gone, but then Gov. Pat McCrory was little more than a spectator to the carnage … the same as the rest […]
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How Democrats can reclaim North Carolina government
I’m not going to kid you. If your goal is to win our state back from the reckless Republicans who run it now, there’s no easy path. But in response to the No. 1 question people ask me, the answer is yes. There is a path. And it begins in Wake County. But first, let’s […]