photo by Bob GearyThe General Assembly is in session At the General Assembly tonight — the people’s assembly, not the Republicans’ — we heard that plans are afoot to visit a very high-level state official’s mansion for Halloween. In costume, naturally. The Direct Action working group is, uh, working on this. By the way, OccupyRaleigh […]
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(Updated) At the Capitol, Day 6: Occupation forces strike fear
A beautiful day for an occupation [UPDATE, Friday, 10/21: Protest on the Capitol grounds? A day later, the N.C. Department of Administration says no — because regardless what the #OccupyRaleigh people may think the First Amendment means when it says “the right of the people peaceably to assemble (and) petition the Government for a redress […]
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PM Friday: Be in fashion at Couture for a Cause
By Florio Photography for Activate GoodCouture for a Cause 2010 Couture for a Cause is back for its 3rd annual edition tomorrow night — Friday — at Marbles Kids Museum. CC2011 is a party and fashion show put on by Activate Good (formerly ME-3), Raleigh’s group of unabashed do-gooders. Amber Smith, their founding leader, won […]
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Tata’s choice plan passes 6-2; Hill, Sutton vote no
Kevin Hill (right, in yellow shirt) at Wake school board work session. Tony Tata is seated at left; James Overman, Tata’s task force leader, is standing. Effective in the 2012-13 school year, unless it’s put off by the new school board when it’s seated in December, Wake County has a new student assignment plan. Superintendent […]
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Raleigh: We’re still occupied — @OccupyRaleigh
photo by Bob GearyThe occupation continues on the sidewalk by the Capitol The occupation of Raleigh continues. Occupy Raleigh moved into its third day today, following a Saturday kickoff that brought at least 1,000 people to the State Capitol, according to organizers, and saw 19 of them arrested and quickly released without bail. I was […]
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(UPDATED) School choice and the Hill-Losurdo runoff: Two questions
[UPDATE, 10/14: After the hearing last night, I spoke with Kevin Hill and Keith Sutton briefly. I asked Keith how he plans to vote on Tuesday, assuming there is a vote. “I’m deliberating,” he said. Same question to Kevin. “I have my doubts,” he said. I told him I’d written this piece, which is about […]
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As goes the election, so goes Tata?
How did the Wake school board elections turn out on Tuesday? The fate of Superintendent Tony Tata’s student assignment plan was hanging in the balanceand maybe not in the way you’ve been led to believe. Tata presented his plan to the school board a week ago, and he asked for a vote on Oct. 18 […]
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Wake, Raleigh election results a stunning repudiation of Republicans’ tea-party politics
Victorious Wake school board candidates Jim Martin and Susan Evans meet in downtown Raleigh The voters in Raleigh and Wake County soundly rejected “neighborhood schools” and Tea Party Republicanism Tuesday in favor of centrist Democratic candidates. Click here for a rundown of the vote totals: * The Republican majority on the Wake County school board […]
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How’s Tata’s student assignment plan? Today’s elections will tell us the answer.
As Donald Rumsfeld might’ve said if asked by his former Army general and now Wake Schools Superintendent Tony Tata, you go to war with the army you have, not the one you want. And you work up a Wake student assignment plan with the school board you have, not necessarily the one you want or […]
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Occupy Raleigh: 99% of us should be enough, and yet …
photo by Bob Geary#OccupyRaleigh occupies Moore Square First things first: Mark your calendars for this Saturday, October 15 from 11 am-3 pm. That’s when #Occupy Raleigh will be occupying the State Capitol grounds for purposes of — well, that’s a long story. The short version is, #OccupyRaleigh (like #OccupyDurham and #OccupyChapel Hill/Carrboro) is an off-shoot […]
