Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Governor Perdue must have decided that the only way to arrest her flagging poll numbers is to plant the flag for education. And for $1.5 billion in higher taxes. Laura Leslie at WUNC radio said Perdue is “fighting back” against legislative cuts with a “Jim Hunt-esque tour to pressure legislators to protect school funding.”…
Read MoreTwo 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 MoreTom Fetzer must have adequately addressed the most important issue on the minds of delegates at the state Republican convention this weekend: his sexual orientation. This obsession with whether someone is gay is one of the problems Republicans have. Another, judging from the recent war of words on our blog, is their anger. At…
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreThe 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 MoreGeorge 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 MoreWell, 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…
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I’ve resisted the temptation to rail every day about Trump’s cruelty, corruption and incompetence – and…
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Jeanette Hyde went from Miss Yadkin County to Madam Ambassador. Hyde, who died Monday at age…
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We’ve heard a lot about stolen votes – but here’s the best way to steal an…
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