Figure this: On any given day you can run into traffic snarls on Glenwood Avenue, Capital Boulevard or Wade Avenue. Real snarls. Real traffic problems...

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Democrats have become so dominant in Raleigh elections City Council races have turned into a series of inner-party squabbles.   Take the at-lar...

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Rudy Giuliani’s been leading his Republican opponents in national polls all year. But, now, there’s a wind change in the making.   Mitt Romney ...

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George Bush has failed as Commander-in-Chief, so now he’s trying for Commentator-in-Chief.  He predicted in an interview that Hillary Clinton wou...

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Raleigh City Council candidate Mary-Ann Baldwin is the victim of a high-tech version of old-time gutter politics.   Supporters of an opponent, ...

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There’s a little flap going on in Raleigh’s city elections about who’s coziest with developers.   It started when someone, apparently tied to a...

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Most of us realize candidates for President (except the candidate we happen to be supporting at the moment), well, to put it politely, dissemble. In f...

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Hunter S. Thompson once compared national political reporters to birds on a wire.  One lands on a wire, the rest follow.  One flies to anoth...

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In campaigns, the worst wounds are often self-inflicted.  Witness two A+ political operatives I know who made D- mistakes last week.  &nbs...

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To add insult to injury (as far as North Hill’s developer John Kane’s $78 million parking deck goes) the city is now building not one but two decks do...

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