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Monthly Archives: October 2006

TWC: UNC tuition strategy, talking lections, Sharpe gains

This week’s column (a lot of short items, so drive by slowly or you’ll miss something) features a look at UNC’s tuition plans and how [...]
October 20, 2006 | Posted in: Columns, Current Events, Elections, Higher Ed, Media, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Down, Down, Down

Evidently, the GOP is melting. From today’s WSJ: With just 19 days until the midterm elections, a new poll shows both President Bush and his [...]
October 19, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Elections, Media, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Dark night at the fair

Not much was open. The rides were shut down. Some booths had lights on, but nobody was home. We walked through the cattle and goat [...]
October 18, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

300 million

We are now a nation of 300 million people. Unfortunately, we are less of a nation this morning as we no longer have the writ [...]
October 17, 2006 | Posted in: Administration, Current Events, Media, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Feel like watching some ads?

So glad Time-Warner never found my house and reconnected the cable. Otherwise, I might still watch television and have to see all the slingin’. That [...]
October 16, 2006 | Posted in: Elections, Media, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Lection

Note to the roughly 75 percent of Americans who don’t read blogs: This is that time of the election season when the bloggy thing gets [...]
October 16, 2006 | Posted in: Elections, Media, Morning Post, Politics, Polls | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Sway

Pretty interesting that after a really solid give-and-take on life, politics, the Net and building communities on and offline by Elizabeth Edwards, the soon-to-be most [...]
October 15, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Morning Post: I heart ConvergeSouth

Really, really great ConvergeSouth–very unconferency. Struck by a few things: • Much more diverse; • Quite civil; • The larger institutions–political, business, media–are better at [...]
October 15, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Misc, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink