Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
It’s Reporter Versus Reporter. UNC-TV versus UNC Radio. And the best drama of the legislative session. Senator Fletcher Hartsell’s inspired idea to subpoena UNC-TV’s unaired Alcoa story stirred up great mischief. It: Put Alcoa in an unwelcome spotlight Put UNC-TV in an unwelcome spotlight Put a UNC radio reporter at odds with a UNC-TV.…
I heard that Jim Goodmon of WRAL was so incensed by the legislative subpoena of WUNC-TV that he called Erskine Bowles – and urged him to fight it. Of course, given the just-completed state budget, UNC was in no position to defy the legislature. Both UNC-TV and the First Amendment probably will survive.…
Unless you happen to subscribe to the Asheville Citizen Times, you probably missed this article by columnist John Boyle about North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Young: Citizens Times.com May 27, 2010 Time for David Young to do the right thing John Boyle COLUMNIST Really, David? I can’t believe how…
The proposed international port at Southport is headed for Davy Jones Locker. The money was cut from the budget, and Congressman Mike McIntyre came out in opposition. A wise reader – and veteran Raleigh hand – believes there a lesson here: how to royally screw up a public-policy initiative. His take: …
President Obama rolled out his best 2010 message yesterday at a town hall in Wisconsin. Click here to see one clip that captures it. The message is simple: The Republicans gave us a mess, and they refuse to help clean it up. Maybe Obama’s team has learned a lesson: They haven’t played the…
Back in 2003 two enterprising ladies from the mountains (from the Hamlet of Sparta) went into the business of providing care to Medicaid patients. Seven years later a judge in the mountains put them out of business and sent them to jail for four years – because the two ladies had hoo-dooed Secretary Lanier Cansler’s…
These days we old-fashioned southerners in Raleigh are getting an education about Italians as the war between the Tedescos and Margiottas (who’ve taken over the School Board) and our local ‘Progressives’ (who’re livid at the Italians for ending busing) roars along. About the only person in town sounding reasonable these days is the News…
Elaine Marshall has to make a tough choice: raise money from Raleigh lobbyists or not. She already took flak for it in the primary. Her defense: It wasn’t much money, and the donors were old friends. Now that she’s won, it could be a lot more money. And a lot more flak. …
Richard Burr better hope that debate performances have little impact on the November election – or get better fast. A lawyer friend (I’m not sure if she’s a Democrat or Republican) went to the Burr-Marshall debate last week at the N.C. Bar Association. Her take: Marshall was stronger than she expected – and…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…