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Picking Up the Pieces
Carter Wrenn
posted on August 31, 2007 10:19
In 200 years no President has ever had his legal powers taken from him. But, in addition to his legal powers, a President must also have a political m...
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Subsidies and Skyscrapers
Carter Wrenn
posted on August 30, 2007 16:44
Developer John Kane’s back, asking the City Council to give him $75 million in public money (tax breaks) to subsidize the expansion of North Hills Mal...
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Forgetaboutit
Carter Wrenn
posted on August 30, 2007 10:09
If you’re a taxpayer in Roanoke Rapids you’re a guarantor on the city’s $21.5 million loan to Randy Parton to build the Randy Parton Theatre. But if y...
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Helping Fred Thompson
Carter Wrenn
posted on August 29, 2007 14:41
Say you are a candidate and need to get in step with Republican voters on immigration, because your record wasn’t quite what it should be. Th...
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True Believers
Gary Pearce
posted on August 29, 2007 10:15
A poll last week seemed to support Karl Rove’s argument that Hillary Clinton is a “fatally flawed” candidate. But the results may say more about...
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Gilding the Lily Can Be Risky?
Carter Wrenn
posted on August 29, 2007 10:12
Rudy Giuliani has done a little lily gilding of his own, declaring in a campaign appearance he’d “been in the ruins of the World Trade Center Towers a...
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From Choirboy to Pitt Bull
Carter Wrenn
posted on August 28, 2007 18:56
It wasn’t too long ago that John Edwards running for Senate as a moderate choirboy was promising to stay above gutter politics and negative smears. By...
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The Power of Apology
Gary Pearce
posted on August 27, 2007 10:58
I confess to not knowing much about Senator Janet Cowell from Raleigh, who wants to run for State Treasurer. But she did something rare for a...
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NCAE Politics
Gary Pearce
posted on August 24, 2007 10:25
Richard Moore’s campaign believes the fix is in for Beverly Perdue at the N.C. Association of Educators. Moore sent a letter to the NCAE Pres...
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Nothing Coy About Him
Gary Pearce
posted on August 23, 2007 12:35
Coy Privette has joined the dubious ranks of self-proclaimed moral leaders who got caught with their morals and their pants down. For more than 30 ye...
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