April 14, 2011 – 11:30 am
They’re worried that Latino’s are being mistreated One of North Carolina’s largest school districts is discriminating against Latino students and their parents by failing to provide them with adequate resources, according to a nationally known civil rights advocacy group threatening to file a federal complaint. But while the Southern Poverty Law Center’s criticism is directed […]
April 12, 2011 – 7:12 pm
Earlier today University of North Carolina student Quinn Matney is gay. For that, he says, someone scarred him for life. Matney said a man walked up to him last week near a foot bridge on the Chapel Hill campus, called him a derogatory name, told him, “here is a taste of hell,” and held a […]
March 23, 2011 – 3:41 pm
Just a bit of a follow up to yesterday’s story about the Feds offering $461 million in stimulus money for the train service between Raleigh and Charlotte (which no one takes) Officials say the new service would cut travel time from Charlotte to Raleigh to less than three hours, even with seven stops along the […]
March 22, 2011 – 5:36 pm
Well, that’s how much Los Federales will provide to North Carolina. How much this boondoggle will cost the people of NC is unknown at this time Transportation officials said Tuesday they’ve reached an agreement that will allow them to obtain $461 million in federal grants to improve passenger train service between North Carolina’s two largest […]
February 17, 2011 – 4:47 pm
Remember back in the day when Democrats screamed about voting fraud? Of course, that tends to be when they lose elections. But, of course, they are typically against one of the best methods to reduce voter fraud, namely, requiring people to show state issued IDs. Something that most adults in society need, for things like […]
February 4, 2011 – 9:16 am
From my hometown of Raleigh, NC, we learn that dissent is a means to a criminal investigation David N. Cox says he was merely exercising his right to petition the government, but a state Department of Transportation official has raised allegations that Cox committed a misdemeanor: practicing engineering without a license. Cox and his North […]
February 2, 2011 – 10:36 am
As they say, elections have consequences. One consequence is that the North Carolina Republican Party is in charge of the entire General Assembly for the first time in 100 years, and, they have a few plans for Obamacare Republican leaders in the state House have scheduled debate and a possible vote Wednesday. The measure aims […]
January 15, 2011 – 4:13 pm
Is there nothing it can’t do? Put yourself in the shoes of Michael Murray, the associate superintendent of a small school district in the North Carolina foothills. He has to provide 180 days of education for his 6,000 students by June 10. This past week of unusually brutal ice and snow in the South put […]
January 12, 2011 – 11:30 am
For the most part, you haven’t heard me discuss the issue going on here in Wake County, NC, where the school board was elected to do away with the current policies and go back to local schools, which would do away with many of the issues going on with the previous policies. Originally, the school […]
December 26, 2010 – 9:58 am
Good morning! How was everyone’s Christmas? I was going to attempt to write something pithy and poignant, but, just too tired, even though I just woke up. I drove to New Jersey the night of the 23rd to see the parent for Christmas, and, because of the potential weather, drove back yesterday after an early […]
