Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Tom 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…