Conglomerates and Push Polls

By Carter Wrenn | 2011-11-01 |

Thom who’s twenty-eight and, after managing three campaigns for State legislature, has decided he’s ready to be a political consultant stopped in mid-sentence and pointed to the back of Albert’s newspaper,   ‘Geez, look at that.’   The waitress poured coffee.   Albert, who’s a pollster, turned over the paper and stared at a full…

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The New North Carolina

By Gary Pearce | 2011-11-01 |

There’s a direct line betweenRob Christensen’s Page 1 story today about why President Obama loves North Carolina and John Frank’s story yesterday about John and Ann Campbell’s role in the Wake school board race.   Long, long ago, before some of you were born, North Carolina had three industries: textiles, furniture and tobacco. In the…

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