(Update, 8/18): Poor Mr. Carr is officially off the ballot and in hot water for registering to vote while he was still on probation. The N&O was at the Wake Board of Elections today. The original post from a week ago: This really is more sad than anything. Lent Carr can sound quite rational, but […]
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Introducing Raleigh’s mayoral candidates
Romney, Bachmann or Perry? (Or Palin?) There’s plenty of time to decide: The election’s not until 2012. But McFarlane, Redmond or Williams? Voting for a new Raleigh mayor starts in five weeks. That’s right, it’s less than six weeks from the end of the filing period to the beginning of early votingand none of the […]
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Wake GOP endorses Billie Redmond for Raleigh mayor over her fellow Republican Randall Williams
Courtesy of Billie Redmond for mayor campaign The executive committee of the Wake County Republican Party met Monday night. The result, just announced, is a party-endorsed slate of candidates in Raleigh that includes businesswoman Billie Redmond for mayor, not Dr. Randall Williams. The two Republican candidates are running in a three-way contest against City Councilor […]
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[Update x 2: Odom’s opponent withdraws] New candidates in Raleigh; Crowder, Gaylord unopposed
[Update No. 2, 4:10 pm: Just spoke to Gary Sims, deputy director at the Board of Elections. He confirms the gist of the story. The erstwhile candidate came in at 11:59, according to the sign-in sheet in the lobby, but he didn’t have a check and the elections staff cannot take cash over $50 (the […]
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A distant trumpet sounds, and Vernon Robinson runs again
I ran into Vernon Robinson last week at the charter schools conference downtown. Vernon’s an old charter schools guy, one of the originals, actually. Anyway, he said he needed to get busy raising money for his congressional campaign. What campaign? I asked. Well, he didn’t say. Vernon announced his candidacy for Brad Miller’s 13th District […]
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Republicans fill out Wake school board slate, profess love for Tata too
The Wake County Republican Party is making no bones about it. As far as they’re concerned, it’s great if the non-partisan school board elections are partisan. To that end, they’ve rolled out their “A” team of GOP candidates, capped off by the announcement today that Donna Williams, founding leader of the Northern Wake Republican Club, […]
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Republicans promise to get their way on charter schools
The General Assembly’s Republican leaders were forced to compromise on a charter schools bill this year, but they’ll be back. Eliminating the cap on charters was just the beginning, the GOP vows, and the party will get the rest of what it wants by any means necessaryeven by passing a raft of local bills that […]
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In Tata we trust—II: Wake Dems get with Tony, say Repubs aren’t
Photo by D.L. Anderson Two months ago, I posted “In Tata we trust?” — note the question mark. The gist of it was, Wake Schools Superintendent Tony Tata’s Blue Plan for student assignment seemed like a reasonable path out of the muck that the school system’s been sunk in since the ’09 elections … and […]
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The Republican plan to generate economic growth in two sentences
www.usajobs.opm.gov No. 1: Especially in a recession, we don’t need government jobs — cut ’em.* No. 2: Instead of paying a lot of government bureaucrats, save money by privatizing public functions — the way Stephen LaRoque does it.** Your footnotes: No. 1 — * Data for the public sector again reflected the ongoing state and […]
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D6 it is: Raleigh Council chooses a downtown light-rail route
Courtesy Patriarca12 at en.wikipediaLight-transit, Charlotte-style If the Raleigh City Council is the last word on the subject — and at this point, it looks like it will be — a trunk light-rail line for the Triangle, if built, would come through downtown Raleigh on the route known as D6. (See the map below.) That’s the […]
