RT “@thinkprogress: “God never intended one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.” — MLK Jr.” Think Progress is tweeting MLK today. One good thought after another.
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On MLK Day, the most tolerant U.S. city? It’s our very own …
photo by Bob Geary … Durham, N.C. San Francisco is 3rd, my old home town of Trenton, NJ, is 7th, and Raleigh checks in at a not-too-shabby 18th, just behind Orlando, Fla., and San Diego and ahead of Riverside, Calif., and Tampa. It’s all right here in the Daily Beast. (And who could argue with […]
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On MLK Day, the most tolerant U.S. city? It’s our very own …
photo by Bob Geary … Durham, N.C. San Francisco is 3rd, my old home town of Trenton, NJ is 7th, and Raleigh checks in at a not-too-shabby 18th, just behind Orlando, FL and San Diego and ahead of Riverside, CA and Tampa. It’s all right here in the Daily Beast. (And who could argue with […]
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Wake school board: Go, or no-go on Tata assignment plan?
photo by Bob GearyThe Wake school board in a work session last week; Kevin Hill, the new chair, is at the head of the table with his back to the camera Well, fellow Wake County citizens, we’re down to it on Tony Tata’s student assignment plan, a controlled-choice plan with no base assignments for students: […]
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Tweeted: Red Hat hearts Raleigh
RT @raleighplanning: Raleigh News Update Red Hat Selects Raleigh as its Global Headquarters ow.ly/1gztgj— Jason Hibbets (@jhibbets) January 6, 2012
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New General Assembly rule: Do unto others, and if you’re really f’ing them up, do it after midnight
I was at the General Assembly yesterday afternoon. The good news is that the Racial Justice Act survived the Republican effort at repeal. Senate Bill 9, the repeal bill, was vetoed by Gov. Bev Perdue. The Senate yesterday voted to override her veto by a party line tally of 31-19 — every Republican for the […]
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Historian and journalist Thomas Frank returns with new book about the billionaires
Thomas Frank Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right Quail Ridge Books & Music Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. Journalist-historian Thomas Frank was in Raleigh in September 2008 a few weeks before the elections that ousted the Republican Party and put Democrats in charge of the White House and […]
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Hark! The Occupy rally & march in(to) Raleigh is tomorrow afternoon
The OccupyRaleigh encampment as it looked a week ago “Tis the season to Occupy something, yes? (I mean, other than a checkout line at the mall?) So tomorrow — Saturday, December 17 — the Walking Occupation marchers from #OWS will reach Raleigh, the halfway mark in their trek from New York City to Atlanta. They’ll […]
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Perdue upholds Racial Justice Act, vetoes Senate Bill 9
Gov. Perdue putting the veto stamp on a previous Republican bill Gov. Bev Perdue today vetoed Senate Bill 9, upholding the Racial Justice Act of 2008. The Republican-passed SB 9 would’ve repealed it. Reactions as collected by WRAL: Republicans are mad, Democrats glad. Opponents of capital punishment — and proponents, too, for that matter — […]
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Family members urge Gov. Perdue to veto Senate Bill 9
Family members of a half-dozen murder victims in North Carolina met Monday morning with Gov. Bev Perdue, urging her to veto Senate Bill 9 and preserve the landmark Racial Justice Act. The RJA allows death row inmates to challenge their sentence on grounds it may have been racially motivated. If they prevail, their death sentences […]
