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Author Archives: Barlow Herget

Spelling out the need for ABC reform

Posted on 1/25/2010 by Barlow Herget

Some of the local ABC executives around the state must be over-sampling their wares.

Thanks to good reporting by Mark Johnson of the Charlotte Observer, we have learned that Alcoholic Beverage Control Board members are behaving like drunken Wall Street bankers in giving their executives high salaries and raises. [Continue Reading...]

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A letter to the blue dogs

Posted on 11/16/2009 by Barlow Herget

Dear Democratic Congressmen Larry Kissell, Mike McIntyre, and Heath Shuler:

I saw that you joined the Republicans and voted against the House Health Care Reform bill. It was a close vote, 220-215, even though you Democrats have a comfortable majority of 258 votes out of 435.

[Continue Reading...]

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The majority want health care reform

Posted on 8/17/2009 by Barlow Herget

To quote that old Republican Ronald Reagan, “There they go again.” [Continue Reading...]

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CEO double-standards

Posted on 7/23/2009 by Barlow Herget

When I worked at a manufacturing plant back in the 1980s, the company had clear rules about firing an employee for poor performance. If the worker was absent three times in a year without an excuse, he or she could be fired. [Continue Reading...]

Posted in Progressive Voices

Segregated schools: Wrong then and wrong now

Posted on 4/30/2009 by Barlow Herget

There has been an attempt, especially in the South, to circumvent the racial integration of public schools ever since segregation was ruled illegal. Separate schools were not equal, and most of us now see that segregation simply was wrong. [Continue Reading...]

Posted in Progressive Voices

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