Professors at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke are among more than 3,000 academics who’ve signed an online petition in support of William Ayers, Eric Ferreri at The N&O reports. The former Weather Underground member that Sarah Palin has been calling a “domestic terrorist” has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago […]
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Indy endorses Durham meals tax referendum
The first of our endorsements has just been posted to Indyweek.com. See this fall’s full endorsement schedule here.
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Q&A with Donald Saari about election math
With less than three weeks before the election, all eyes are on the polls. But there’s a high likelihood the voting results won’t reflect the will of the people, according to Don Saari, a professor of economics and mathematics at the University of California-Irvine. The problem isn’t electronic voting machines or misinformation campaigns. Saari says […]
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Much ado about ACORN
The McCain-Palin campaign is already laying the groundwork for an Obama-stole-the-election narrative by trying to connect Barack Obama, who was a community organizer, with ACORN, which does community organizing and is being accused of widespread voter fraud. Today, ACORN officials defended their work registering 1.3 million people to vote nationwide. Meanwhile, North Carolina election officials […]
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Pat McCrory’s health care plan: scrap requirements
Does anyone remember during the last presidential debate, when John McCain (while he wasn’t roaming lost around the stage) talked about giving people the choice to buy health insurance from any state they wish? To which Barack Obama countered that doing so could encourage some states to deregulate health insurance, creating cheap plans that — […]
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Charlotte Observer’s link switcheroo
Online readers were understandably perturbed today when a link to a prominent Charlotte citizen’s endorsement of Barack Obama suddenly stopped working — and took them to another Charlotte citizen’s endorsement of John McCain. As of 11:15 a.m., the link problem had been fixed, though comments and accompanying art were still mixed up. On Oct. 6, […]
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Salon on Liddy Dole’s floundering campaign
This dispatch in Salon from the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord shows our incumbent senator out of touch, ducking reporters, palling around with big money.
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Wachovia bails out Republicans
Teetering on the brink of collapse, Wachovia is nevertheless loaning $8 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee for a last-minute campaign boost for House Republicans candidates. Facing South has this investigation.
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Democracy NC calls NYT voter registration story “inflammatory”
An investigative story published in the New York Times this week — and picked up by The N&O today — says North Carolina is among several swing states in which thousands of voters “have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law.” Bob Hall, […]
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Buckhorn Village shopping center OK’d
In another local victory for retail development, Orange County commissioners gave the thumbs up to a 1.1 million-square-foot shopping center off I-85 in Hillsborough last night. Commissioner Barry Jacobs is quoted in the N&O and Herald-Sun as a big supporter of the project, which he says will keep the county from bleeding tax revenue. What […]