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  • Palin bid a long shot

    Public Policy Polling

    With the news today that Sarah Palin is resigning, possibly to focus on a 2012 Presidential bid, what are her chances?

    For the Republican nomination, at least at this early point, pretty good. For the general election, not so much.

    Monthly national PPP surveys looking at the 2012 [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:06pm EDT
  • Re: The "Vote" Charade

    JLF > The Locker Room

    More on this charade and the politics of the referendum amendment is reported in the Winston Salem Journal this morning. In part…. Until yesterday, Democrats had consistently blocked attempts by Republicans to require referendums before cities... [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
  • Journalism

    Exile on Jones Street

    Fair and balanced?
    Paragraph One and Two

    Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month.

    Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that it’s a possibility under President Barack Obama’s energy plan that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week.

    Then waaaaay down in paragraph Sixteen comes the [...]

    Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
    by kmr
  • Church and state

    EdCone.com

    I know that saying "corporate media work for the establishment" makes me sound like a dirty hippie but, y'know, it's largely true. In this case, the editorial bosses at the Washington Post get to be outraged with the rest of... [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:53am EDT
    by Ed Cone
  • Coming Out

    WataugaWatch

    Disgraced politicians have limited options. When they decide to make a reappearance in public, they desperately need to go where they're guaranteed a friendly, even adulatory reception, and a minimum of booing. Which is why Richard M. Nixon in August 1979 chose the tiny (and heavily' [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:24am EDT
    by J.W. Williamson
  • GC

    EdCone.com

    One of the least-flattering details in last Sunday's article about Greensboro College was the bit about Craven Williams charging his wife's sessions with a personal trainer to the cash-strapped school. Today two letters dispute that claim, and the N&R has... [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:44am EDT
    by Ed Cone
  • Hagan in the mainstream

    EdCone.com

    Kay Hagan supports a watered-down public option for health insurance. North Carolina elected a moderate Democrat, and she's acting like a moderate Democrat. Binker's interesting article on Hagan's choice (I couldn't find it at the N&R site; it's buried on...' [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:10am EDT
    by Ed Cone
  • Wi-Fi on the water

    Squall Lines

    Entrepreneur Randy Lively is building a wireless-internet system covering the coastal strip from Morehead City to Jacksonville, Florida. As the Greater Wilmington Business Journal reports, Lively’s firm is setting up a network of repeater radios to provide the service:

    Those looking for Internet connections within the range of the receivers [...]

    Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:18am EDT
    by John Hood
  • Bloodhounds

    Thunder Pig







    This is hilarious!
    From the video description of the video that was released yesterday...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a new YouTube video targeting the failure of Washington Democrats trillion-dollar stimulus bill and asking where are the jobs? The tongue-in-cheek web [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:24am EDT
  • This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

    JLF > The Locker Room

    As North Carolina legislators struggle to balance the next state budget, some observers wonder why the state lottery hasn't provided more money to fill government's spending needs. Joe Coletti will explore that topic during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Some lawmakers are haggling over... ' [...]
    Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:50am EDT
  • CSS Folks!

    Scrutiny Hooligans

    Hiya Hooligans. We’re working on the next incarnation of our website, and we’re hunting folks who know and love CSS to work with the web team. If you’d like to throw a few hours our way to make the Gordon Smith for City Council web presence teh awesomes, click here and [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:59pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

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