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N&O Gloating?
Two readers – who otherwise praise the N&O’s coverage of Easley/Stategate – ask whether the newspaper is guilty of excessive end zone celebration. They especially took issue with John Drescher’s column Saturday criticizing Bob Jordan, the interim trustees’ chairman. One said, “I just think it had a little bit of sitting on the…
Read MoreOpen Wide
When I was invited to talk about the state of N.C.State on this weekend’s Headline Saturday for WRAL and The N&O, I was prepared to get even more depressed about my alma mater. Instead, I left the studio this morning feeling good. The reason was the other panelist at the taping: Dr. Jim Martin,…
Read MoreBleeding Red
The Wolfpack Nation is angry. Angry at the Big Men On Campus who embarrassed N.C. State, angry at The News & Observer and angry at Mike and Mary Easley. Here is an up-to-the-minute guide to the venting: Jim Oblinger and Larry Neilsen. They proved, once again, that the coverup is always worse than…
Read MoreThe Gang That Wouldn’t Shoot Straight
George Wallace used to rail against âpointy-headed professors who canât park their bicycles straight.â The administrators at N.C. State couldnât get their stories straight. The result is national humiliation, the loss of three top leaders and piñata status in the middle of a state budget crisis. UNC President Erskine Bowles had it right…
Read MoreThe Sparks Fly Upwards
Well, the next time a governor asks the Chancellor at North Carolina State University to hire his wife for $875,000 the Chancellor will either whip out a gun and start shooting or hightail it for the hills. Nobody with any sense really believed the professors at State College thought up hiring Governor Easley’s wife…
Read MoreSenator Doug Berger’s Blooper
Senator Doug Berger’s Blooper
For the past month, State Senator Doug Berger has been telling just about anyone who’ll listen that 45% of the patients who get home care services through Medicaid are ineligible. He’s gotten so worked up over the whole thing he wrote one lady, who disagreed with him, and told her the ‘ineligible’ patients’ children…
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