Rigid ideology meets more reality
February 9th, 2010
News that prominent conservatives Art Pope and Bob Luddy gave a combined $38,000 to elect four members of the new Gang of Five majority on the Wake County Board of Education is not much of a surprise. An email to Chair Ron Margiotta this fall from a Republican activist said that Art Pope's plan to get them elected worked very well.
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Special Features
- Study: NC Voters More Independent, Urban and Non-White
- Ten Years after Promise, NC’s Student Achievement Gap Persists
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- Blue Cross Anti-Reform Postcards – Strike Back
- State budget drops to lowest level in 13 years after accounting for inflation and population changes
Monday Numbers
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by Chris Fitzsimon
Needed: A fair federal jobs policy
by Ajamu Dillahunt
The danger of misreading a report
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Fixing North Carolina transportation policy
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Radio
State Rep. Rick Glazier on ethics reform and repairing NC’s economy
The NAACP’s Rev.William Barber previews the 4th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones St.
Anita Brown-Graham on creative thinking and the Emerging Issues Forum
House Speaker Joe Hackney on ethics, the budget shortfall, and tax reform
Anne Burke of Urban Ministries on the growing needs in Wake County
Mark Holmes of the NC Institute of Medicine on improving adolescent health
Rep. Bob Etheridge on job creation, health care, and banking reform
The NC Justice Center’s Stephen Jackson on NC’s achievement gap
Food Bank President Peter Werbicki on the changing face of hunger in NC
John Dornan of the Public School Forum with the Top Education issues of 2010
The Progressive Pulse - an NC Policy Watch Blog
- Top of the morning - Chris Fitzsimon
- Shameless hypocrisy - Rob Schofield
- Neighborhood Schools in Wake Would Cause Massive Overcrowding, Concentrations of Poor Students - Stephen Jackson
- Maybe the free market could regulate our nuclear weapons program. - Adam Linker
- Lunch links - Adam Linker
- What if we find the Fountain of Youth first? - Adam Linker
- Top of the morning - Chris Fitzsimon
- Getting creative about job creation - Clayton Henkel
Daily News
Two businessmen invested big in schools race Winners will get to draw the map Editorial: A new year, a new set of elections on ballots Editorial: Put away the plastic Editorial: It’s personal The big unanswered question Editorial: Openness is only way to ensure accountability from our elected officials Editorial: Target activity, not emblems NC GOP head wants 2 top Perdue aides to quit Time for bonus round at banks Getting By: City or county, things are tough all over Off to the races Candidates line up as election filing starts Candidates line up to file for office Rockingham dropout rate down White-collar jobless gather for comfort in cold economy Dentist wants help to broaden care Stimulus money to help fund 500 Mecklenburg jobs Mental patient, 80, chokes on food and dies CMS panel: Some schools skimp on AP classes
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