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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Great minds of Western Civ

The DTH had this money quote from the fellow who heads up the group that invited Tom Tancredo to speak on campus and is welcoming [...]
April 22, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hagan says renegotiate NAFTA

Senator Kay Hagan reminds a few folks in D.C. that she is indeed one of two U.S. Senators from North Carolina and that the NAFTA [...]
April 21, 2009 | Posted in: Economy, NCSenate | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Newspaper people

Read this blog post about the N&O layoffs. A lot of the people headed out the door today in Raleigh were the people many of [...]
April 21, 2009 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Gas is cheap again so STFU

Because now is not the time for higher taxes on our precious energy sector. Besides didn’t their highly informative well-produced ads just tell you that’s [...]
April 20, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Food for thought

Some states aren’t doing much to track down food poisoning. NC seems to be among the group of slacker states. The feds aren’t so hot, [...]
April 20, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Gillmor’s concern

One of the things I’ve always liked about listening to Dan Gillmor is his straightforward delivery. He seems more interested in technology and innovations as [...]
April 18, 2009 | Posted in: Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Senator phones home

Says head to the ATM, honey Yee. It’s like a bad joke gone bad. The spin is awful. and lame.
April 17, 2009 | Posted in: 2010 Elections | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Navel gazin’

The media — you know the monolith — seems to be really content to talk about itself and frame every major story around how that [...]
April 17, 2009 | Posted in: Media | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink