Bob Geary

Hunter Guic, an N.C. State senior, lives in a townhouse on infamous Brent Road in Raleigh, where the huge parties used to be. Last year, he says, he and his roommates were hosts to a more intimate gathering of 40 close friends or so. He smiles, recalling it. Then a Raleigh cop arrived on the […]

The silent majority in Wake County, or rather the silent super-majority, is in favor of comprehensive sex education as an option in the public schools. So says Dean Debnam, the Raleigh Democrat-businessman whose enterprises include PPP, for Public Policy Polling. After the Wake school board in December voted 5-4 to revert to an “abstinence-only” curriculum, […]

Oh, fickle politics. Wasn’t it just last week that some people around here were awarding the Democratic presidential nomination to Howard Dean? And joshing John Edwards for giving up his Senate seat for a quixotic run at the White House? (Hey, really, just joshing! Sir.) Post-Iowa, the Deaniacs were down, and Edwards-ians like Raleigh’s Gail […]

Mike Regan, newly elected to the Raleigh City Council on his “Jesus Saves, As Do Tax Cuts” platform, is bidding fair to be the new Tom Fetzer. Fetzer, you’ll recall, won the mayor’s job a decade ago after beating to death the ’92 referendum for a new downtown convention center. He was the darling of […]

You can’t beat something with nothing. It’s as true in politics as it is in holiday toys. The stores are bristling with combat materiel–G.I. Joe’s now doing special ops from a jump jet–but you can’t find a Church World Service doll anywhere. (See below, however.) That’s the big reason I agree with Tim Liszewski, a […]

My friend Betsy Kane was in the swarm of folks who turned out at Helios Coffee in Raleigh Sunday night to see Uncovered, the documentary about the Bush Gang’s Iraq deceptions. Naturally she had her Howard Dean for President petitions with her. “I never go anywhere without them,” she smiled, gathering up a few more […]

To: Santa’s Worldwide Helpers Re: Your Recommended Charities. I want to use this space to correct a misimpression I may have left, quite inadvertently, with my young niece and nephew. Because I have a beard, and am so generally good-humored (except when the subject is politics), McKenzie asked me a couple of years ago if […]