photo by Bob GearyAndre Smith and Jean Parks (looking at him), each of whom lost a family member to a murder in Raleigh, were among those who met with Gov. Perdue Family members of a half-dozen victims of murder in North Carolina met this morning with Gov. Bev Perdue, urging her to veto Senate Bill […]
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TGIF: MoveOn.org guy looks a lot like —
They’re activists, but it’s so dangerous out there. Behind the Scenes at MoveOn.org from Steven Weber
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Trespass case of Occupy Raleigh’s Margaret Schucker pushed to January
Margaret Schucker, the disabled Occupy Raleigh participant arrested at the State Capitol October 27 for sitting in her chair on the sidewalk, was in a Wake County courtroom this morning expecting her case to be heard. It wasn’t. According to her lawyers, the prosecution didn’t intend the case to be tried today and scheduled it […]
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McFarlane and Baldwin: Rivals on the Raleigh Council?
A postscript to what I wrote yesterday about Mayor Nancy McFarlane’s “team” on City Council. McFarlane’s committee assignments unfolded as I thought they would. In Raleigh, the mayor names committee members, usually based on what they want but not always; the seven councilors don’t vote on it, however. McFarlane’s appointments were made without comment. But […]
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[Updated] Leading the new Wake school board: Hill and Sutton (not JT)
[Update, 8:45 p.m.: Back from the meeting. Guess what? Despite the low, low (free) price of my good advice, the new majority tossed Tedesco out as vice chair. Kevin Hill is the new chair, Keith Sutton is vice chair. Both by 5-4 or 5-3-1 votes. (A convoluted process; the vote for Hill as chair happened […]
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[Updated] Raleigh council takes stand vs. anti-LGBT amendment; vote is 6-2 against discriminatory measure
[Update, Tuesday, 3 p.m. The newly installed Raleigh City Council, led by new Mayor Nancy McFarlane, voted 6-2 this afternoon to go on record in opposition to the proposed anti-LGBT constitutional amendment. The action was swift. Councilor Eugene Weeks made the motion to follow the recommendation of the city’s Human Rights Commission (see below). His […]
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McFarlane’s team: Stephenson, Weeks get key posts on new Council
The new City Council: (seated, from left) Eugene Weeks, Russ Stephenson, Randy Stagner, John Odom, Bonner Gaylord, Thomas Crowder, Mary-Ann Baldwin. Mayor Nancy McFarlane’s inaugural speech last night was cheery. Raleigh’s the greatest city anywhere; she plans to keep it that way. Better transit is needed. The Dix tract should be our Central Park one […]
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Next Wake Dems chair: Dan Blue III in the running
We don’t usually call him Sen. Dan Blue Jr., but we may need to start now that his son, Dan Blue III is beginning to make a mark in Wake County. Dan Blue III is a lawyer in his dad’s firm, an officer in the Wake County Democratic Party and a new member of the […]
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Sister Helen Prejean on the death penalty: “The people know the thing doesn’t work”
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty kicked off a new campaign to abolish capital punishment in North Carolina today with a press conference featuring Sister Helen Prejean, renowned death penalty opponent and author of the very influential Dead Man Walking. Our Triangulator blog carried a post yesterday about the PFADP effort. At the press […]
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Gov. Perdue “thinking hard” about capital punishment and the Racial Justice Act?
In the Indy this week, I wrote about the N.C. Senate’s vote to repeal the Racial Justice Act, a law meant to prevent executions in murder cases where the death sentence was a product of racial bias. The bill to repeal it, Senate Bill 9, passed both houses on party-line votes, with nearly every Republican […]
