from Love = Love This little film by Mimi Schiffman is a gem. It’s about Isak. 12, and his “big happy family.” A sister, a dog and two moms. It’s also, of course, about Amendment 1. “Love is just when you know you want to be with someone, and a world where everything’s right,” Isak […]
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Dalton, Etheridge, Faison: long-winded but short on ideas
Did you miss some or even all of the televised debates last week among the leading candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination? If so, let me summarize them for you: Not good. Three debates, three candidates, not a new idea out of any one of them. Not surprising, then, that most of what’s been written […]
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Saturday, Brewgaloo: What the R-Line is for
I’m a little slow on the uptake here. Somebody asked me yesterday if I was going to Brewgaloo this Saturday. Huh? Today I see that the Indy is a Brewgaloo sponsor, and Brewgaloo is — well, you know, beer, in Raleigh, local beer, Shop Local, in City Plaza, with music, I Was Totally Destroying It, […]
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Wake Reps. Rosa Gill, Darren Jackson get conservation voters’ nod in Democratic primaries
Reps. Rosa Gill and Darren Jackson, both D-Wake, have Democratic primary challengers this year. Gill’s opponent (again) is Bernard Allen II. Jackson is up against Don Mial and Michael Slawter. Today, Gill and Jackson were two of the 10 candidates statewide endorsed by the N.C. League of Conservation Voters PAC in primary races. Gill and […]
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PPP: Amendment 1 still favored, but passage is “less and less of a sure thing”
The takeaway about Amendment 1 and the real Public Policy Polling results: “The amendment is still favored for passage,” says PPP director Tom Jensen, “but it’s looking like less and less of a sure thing.” (PPP’s analysis is here.) The PPP survey, taken before the anti-Amendment 1 TV ads hit the air yesterday, found that […]
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Dalton, Etheridge even in Democratic gubernatorial race; still lots of undecideds
There’s a new survey out tonight from Public Policy Polling, and it shows Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and former Congressman Bob Etheridge in a statistical tie with two weeks to go in the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Etheridge had a double-digit lead, but it’s gone, thanks to TV ads Dalton’s been running. […]
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TV ads go up in campaign to defeat Amendment 1
We’re a big state, so mounting a statewide TV advertising campaign is expensive — and until today the campaign against Amendment 1 couldn’t afford it. But with two weeks and a day until the May 8 primary (and with early voting already under way), it’s now or never. The good news is, it’s now. Two […]
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NAACP’s Barber on the RJA ruling: A strike against the fallacy of “inevitable” racial bias
The ruling today in the Marcus Robinson case, the first appeal to be decided by a trial court under the Racial Justice Act, made national news. North Carolinians dealt a blow to racism. Still, not every North Carolinian acknowledges what the statistics tell us is obvious: That racism in NC death penalty cases, and in […]
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First Racial Justice Act result: Death row inmate is resentenced to life without possibility of parole
from WRAL live stream Marcus Robinson in court This statement below from Gerda Stein at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham summarizes what happened this morning in a Cumberland County courtroom. The Racial Justice Act appeal on behalf of Marcus Robinson, convicted of murder in 1994 and sentenced to death, resulted in a […]
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David Parker will leave his post as Dems’ party chair
photo by Bob GearyDavid Parker is leaving as Democratic party chairman [Update: Parker is stepping down as party chairman. He’s asked the party staff to call a meeting of the executive council — about 40 folks, he said — to choose a new chair. It will be a.s.a.p., probably on May 12. When they choose, […]
