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Meager job creation, unemployment rate rises

The June jobs numbers are out and they are not good, even though economists expected a big bounce back from May’s dismal report. Non-farm payroll [...]
July 8, 2011 | Posted in: Dispatches, Economy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Not created by saints

Read another comment this morning alluding to the “divine” origins of this nation. There’s always been a politician or theologian or two or twenty trying [...]
July 4, 2011 | Posted in: Dispatches, Misc, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

What’s in a name

Now that the General Assembly is preparing to head home, I’m wondering what to call this session. It was certainly historic. It was certainly partisan. [...]
June 16, 2011 | Posted in: Dispatches | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

A brief explanation

Update: Sometime after this post I changed things around again I probably should have come up with a cool analogy about getting back into the [...]
July 18, 2010 | Posted in: Dispatches | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Filing season

It’s filing season. There are a good number of high profile filings fixin to commence. Stay tuned.
February 8, 2010 | Posted in: 2010 Elections, Dispatches, Misc | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Happy Friday

January 30, 2009 | Posted in: Dispatches | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The American Quilt

Spent some time at the Durham-Orange Quliters show at American Tobacco in Durham. Pretty amazing show. Walking past the hundreds of works, this one jumped [...]
October 19, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Dispatches | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

MNI

Sold most of my MNI years ago in the mid to low 60s. Makes me look like a goddamn genius. The truth is that I [...]
September 16, 2008 | Posted in: Dispatches, Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink