This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. If James Comey’s media strategy is simply to say things that get under President Trump’s skin, thus prompting the president to rage-tweet, thus generating media attention, thus generating book sales, thus driving profits, well, it all […]
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Here’s What It Would Cost to Give Wake Schools What They Want
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. On Wednesday, I mentioned that the acting superintendent of the Wake County Public Schools System had proposed seeking nearly $490 million in funds from the Board of Commissioners, which would include nearly $59 million in new […]
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Paul Ryan Is a Damned Fraud Who Needs to Go Away
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. There are probably two Republican politicians who annoy the center-left intelligentsia more than any other, and for […]
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A Horrible, No Good, Very Bad NCGA Idea Has Died (for Now)
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. Earlier this year, Republicans in the state legislature convened a committee to look at breaking up large […]
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A GOP Operative Says Trump Is “Losing His Sh*t.” Is He About to Fire Mueller?
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. This is the big parlor game in DC right now—will there be a constitutional crisis? On Monday, […]
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Wake County Schools Want a Bunch More Money, and This Could Get Ugly
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. In this week’s paper, I wrote some three thousand words on the Wake County Board of Commissioners’ […]
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How Wake Commissioners Tore Themselves Apart Over a Defunct Golf Course
At a neighborhood’s urging, four commissioners want to turn the land into a park. The other three say the county should fund its school system first. Elections are next month.
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There’s Going to Be One Hell of an Awkward Wake County Commission Meeting This Afternoon
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. It’s not actually on today’s agenda, but it will be the elephant lingering in the room. On […]
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Wake Commissioners Holmes, Ford, and West Blast Their Colleagues for Holding a Campaign Event at the Crooked Creek Golf Clubhouse
In a pointed statement emailed to reporters this afternoon, Wake County commissioners Jessica Holmes, Greg Ford, and James West took aim at colleagues Matt Calabria, Sig Hutchinson, John Burns, and Erv Portman over a “private event” being held at the “Crooked Creek Golf Clubhouse.” “Transitioning the now-defunct golf course into a county park was the […]
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What Does Shady EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Actually Have to Do to Get Himself Fired?
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. I’ve written quite a bit lately about Scott Pruitt, the embattled EPA administrator who has shown a […]
