photo by Bob GearyAdam Attarian of Raleigh says “come on” WRAL is reporting Neal was among the speakers at a rally earlier outside the legislative building. The rally was sponsored by a California-based group called Get Equal with a new N.C. state chapter. (The rally started late and I needed to leave, so I didn’t […]
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At WILPF Congress (and you’re invited): Friday, Rev. William Barber; Saturday, peace demo & film: “The Whistleblower”
photo by D.L. AndersonTriangle WILPF organizers gather in Chapel Hill The 31st national congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom is underway in Chapel Hill on the UNC-CH campus and runs through Sunday. It hits high gear tomorrow — Friday — when the Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP, gives […]
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(Update) The Republicans’ budget vs. Perdue’s: The gap is way bigger than it appears— Why are 5 House Dems with the GOP?
[Update II, 6/2, 9:30 a.m.: Progressive groups are incensed that five conservative House Democrats may upset Perdue’s applecart. The five apparently will vote for the GOP budget when it comes back from the Senate. Whether they’ll vote to override a Perdue veto is uncertain; it’s possible that after a veto, they’ll go to work on […]
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In battling Republican lawmakers over the budget, Gov. Bev Perdue has emerged as a mighty opponent
The budget battle in numbers Perdue versus the GOP: Who’s on which side Gov. Bev Perdue gathered 100 of the state’s business and academic leaders on May 19 for a free-swinging attack on the General Assembly’s savage budget cuttingespecially the slashes to public education. At the meeting in Research Triangle Park, Perdue sat at the […]
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Next week: 9 public hearings set on Blue & Green options for Wake schools
Johnny Carson used to want your cards and letters. Tony Tata wants your emails or your comments in person re: his Blue Plan and his Green Plan for making student assignments in Wake starting with the 2012-13 school year. I wrote earlier about the Blue v. the Green (not to be confused with the Blue […]
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Occupation: Three weeks of bumming
“Bummers”not the kind you’re thinking ofplagued Raleigh and Wake County at the close of the Civil War. Bummers were the foraging soldiers whose job was to sweep the countryside for food and other supplies needed to sustain Gen. William T. Sherman’s Union troops as they stormed through North Carolina in the spring of 1865. Gen. […]
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The immigration trials of Pedro Guzman
They’ll remember their tears: tears of anguish when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials snatched Pedro Guzman from outside his family’s home in Durham and sent him to immigration hell in a remote Georgia prison. Tears of despair as Emily, Pedro’s wife, thrashed for months against an immigration court that seemed anything but just. Tears of […]
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Rev. Barber, others, arrested at General Assembly: Video (w/ UPDATE)
The Rev. William Barber being led away in handcuffs [UPDATE: 5/25 — David Lamotte put his thoughts in writing before going to the General Assembly. “Why I Am in Jail” is on the N.C. Council of Churches website. Here’s an excerpt: ” … I would argue that what is right and what is legal sometimes […]
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Blue vs. Green: Which school assignment plan will better protect Wake County values?
Strap on your skates, public participators: Wake Schools Superintendent Tony Tata put a competing pair of school assignment plans on the table today along with a schedule that would see him recommending one or the other to the school board in about three weeks. In other words, time to do your reading — and put […]
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Perdue in title defense vs. GOP’ers: Gov dominates in early rounds (but oops, goes down on broadband)
photo by Bob GearyGov. Perdue at SE Raleigh HS Don’t look now, but the supposedly unpopular Gov. Bev Perdue is kicking Republican sternum all over NC in the fight over the budget and public schools. [Update: Oh, we didn’t see that one coming. The Gov just hit the deck on the broadband issue — she […]
