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Entries for February 2006
Gary Pearce posted on February 28, 2006 15:36
It looks like our crusade to get the Raleigh City Council focused on schools is making progress.
In his annual State of the City address this week,...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 28, 2006 13:02
‘Pay to Play’ is the name the media has given the scandals that are going on in Raleigh. It means, roughly, lobbyists ‘pay’ (by making contributions) ...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 27, 2006 17:19
For some time now, the political tide has been running against supporters of abortion rights.
That’s because the opponents got smart. They started ...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 27, 2006 16:20
The Democrats in Raleigh have been embroiled in a series of scandals over the last six months that the newspapers have dubbed ‘pay to play’ – and as a...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 24, 2006 14:31
From the first taxpayers’ revolution in California in 1978, North Carolina has escaped a full-scale rebellion over local property taxes.
I predict ...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 24, 2006 14:30
I’m enjoying watching Republicans put President Bush on the hot seat for letting a Middle Eastern company run American ports.
And I have a sneaking...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 23, 2006 16:41
A painful lesson Carter taught me in the 1984 Hunt-Helms race was the power of using your opponents’ own words against him.
I thought of that whe...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 23, 2006 13:59
I believe The News & Observer was dead wrong Thursday morning about Senator Elizabeth Dole, her husband Bob Dole and the Dubai ports fiasco.
Th...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 23, 2006 12:32
President Bush has not vetoed a single bill in five years in office.
But, yesterday, it seemed at last he had found an issue so important it merite...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 23, 2006 09:35
President Bush’s decision to let Arab companies provide security for American ports confirms what I’ve always suspected: the one thing stronger than B...
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