Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Raleigh native (and Broughton grad) Richard Jenrette was a legend on Wall Street and in the world of historic preservation. He also earned the admiration of a wide range of friends and associates. When he died recently at the age of 89, he left behind on his desk 24 rules to succeed – in finance…
You need to ask a question about Workfare, the pollster said. As a rule of thumb, you can ask sixty questions in a poll and I’d started out with ninety – I looked down at the thirty questions I’d deleted then asked, Do you think people are more concerned about Workfare than these other issues?…
Duane Hall didn’t let party leaders push him out. So the voters threw him out. Hall’s handling of sexual harassment accusations smacked of Trump. Hall denied ever doing anything wrong. He attacked the women who spoke up. He attacked the media as having a “personal vendetta” against him. Only 27 percent of the primary voters…
Duane Hall didn’t let party leaders push him out. So the voters threw him out. Hall’s handling of sexual harassment accusations smacked of Trump. Hall denied ever doing anything wrong. He attacked the women who spoke up. He attacked the media as having a “personal vendetta” against him. Only 27 percent of the primary voters…
The N&O has left its old home, about the same time I stopped getting the paper at home. I hope the change works out for both of us. It may be tough for them. I hear money is tight there, and my going digital-only is a $470 hit to their revenues. Rob Christensen was right…
Now, I could do a blog with that title every day. And I choose not to go down that path. But this is a special case. Who past the age of 10 fakes a doctor’s note? And who would write things like “he would without doubt be the healthiest individual ever elected President”? Just one,…
This is how Democrats can turn the much-hyped “blue wave” into barely a ripple. This is why I tell Republicans who fear a Democratic landslide this year, “Don’t worry. We’ll find a way to screw it up. We’ve got our best people working on it.” Equality NC says it won’t support Democratic legislators who voted…
A recent death moved Gene Upchurch, a retired Progress Energy executive, to write this tribute: When I read the N&O’s obituary of Pat Taylor, the former lieutenant governor who died Sunday at the age of 94, it occurred to me that I might be the only person in the state who was actually hypnotized by…
No blog I’ve ever done got more reaction than “Should I renew The N&O?” in February. A lot of readers told me how to get out of paying $600 a year. Threaten to cancel, they said, and you can negotiate a lower rate. Several people, one an old N&O hand, said they did cancel –…
How do you get your news? Our statewide poll asked North Carolina voters what their primary…
Thom Tillis and Phil Berger fed the MAGA alligator. Then it ate them. Thomas Mills wrote…
Exactly 80 years ago, in 1946, Republicans took control of Congress with a simple message: “Had…