If you’ve seen the ads, it’s not Mississippi. Mississippi will spend more on public schools than we do. It’s not South Carolina. (Really? Not even with Nikki Haley in the Gov’s Office?) Nope. Together NC coalition leaders just sent a letter of apology to South Carolina for their mockery back when our state was never […]
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Councilor Mary-Ann Baldwin miffed over the branding of Southwest Raleigh
It didn’t seem controversial: a two-year study, led by a diverse N.C. State University team, “to identify strategies to further enhance the unique character of the South West Raleigh area and explore opportunities for future private economic development.” The price was modest: $150,000, with NCSU adding $40,000from donated funds, lest the General Assembly become alarmed. […]
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Till Tellis. Oh, wait, it’s “Tell Tillis” … dot … com
How many reports have you read … how many tweets … how many emails … about the latest outrage in the General Assembly? This bill destroys environmental protections. That bill rips apart the schools. So on. I’m guessing I’ve read a thousand. Really. These guys have run some seriously bad bills. So many that the […]
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Perdue to announce budget decision: Veto coming? (Update: Veto, yes. Perdue statement, plus a new poll.)
Photo by Travis FainGov. Perdue adds her BP to the red ink [Update 4: 6/13: Public Policy Polling finds one-third of voters are undecided, but otherwise, Perdue’s veto is the popular choice; even the Republican electorate is puzzling over the GOP position … while Dems and UNAs — unaffilateds — are with the Gov.] *** […]
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In Tata we trust? Thoughts on a Friday re: Blue vs. Green
I wrote a column in this week’s Indy about the challenges to public education in Wake County and North Carolina. At The News & Observer, one of their blogger-reporters picked it up, characterizing it as “firing shots” at the Blue plan for student assignment in Wake. Whereupon I heard from several people who asked, “I […]
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Considering it’s Friday: In Tata we trust?
I wrote a column in this week’s Indy about the challenges to public education in Wake County and North Carolina. Over at The News & Observer, one of the bloggers picked it up, characterizing it as “firing shots” at the Blue plan for student assignment in Wake. Whereupon I heard from several people asking, in […]
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Competition for McFarlane in the Raleigh mayor’s race?
from the CBC Trademark Properties website Word circulating in Raleigh is that Billie Redmond, owner-CEO of Coldwell Banker Commercial Trademark Properties and a registered Republican, is weighing a bid for mayor and talking with potential supporters. If she runs, she could offer serious opposition to the only announced candidate so far, City Councilor Nancy McFarlane. […]
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The issues behind the color-coded Wake County schools plans
Apropos of our Best of the Triangle issue, let me offer one more thing for which the Triangle itself is tops: We are the best place in America to observe whether public education as we know it will survive. That’s the question behind the debate in Wake County, where the struggle over student assignments, now […]
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You go, Gov: Perdue bypasses the GOP, orders that those entitled to jobless benefits receive them (UPDATE: And it gets better …)
Indyweek illustration by V.C. RogersPerdue keeps stirring up trouble for the GOP Can she do it? She can try. Let the Republicans find a judge who’ll block it, but for now, Gov. Bev Perdue has declared — via executive order — that 47,000 people who should’ve been getting extended jobless benefits but weren’t because the […]
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In re: the case of Johnny Reid (“John”) Edwards — indicted for lying
photo by Jenny WarburgJohn Edwards in Chapel Hill, Dec. 2006: That’s Rielle Hunter with the camera The feds, as widely advertised for a week, got a grand jury to indict former presidential candidate John Edwards. The official charge is that he violated campaign finance laws. The real charge: He lied while he was a candidate […]
