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What’s to come in the special session

The North Carolina General Assembly has been more unpredictable than usual this year. The upcoming special session, which GOP leaders say will last only three [...]
September 8, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, Current Events, General Assembly | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Breaking down the NC congressional races

This month’s column is a table setter, breaking down the North Carolina congressional elections district by district based on the new maps and candidates leaning [...]
August 18, 2011 | Posted in: 2012 Elections, Columns, Politics, US House | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Sea change

This month’s Exile on Jones Street column, published Wednesday July 20 in the Independent Weekly, is about the changes in public policy as a result [...]
July 24, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, DENR, Environment | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Burning the bridge to the 21st Century

This month’s print column in the Indy is a bit of a catch-all, written in the heat of the clusterf^%k at the end of the [...]
June 16, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, General Assembly | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Budget cuts and the environment

Following are a series of posts on specific proposed cuts in the budget that will threaten environmental protection, land conservation and long standing programs aimed [...]
May 19, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, DENR, Environment, General Assembly, NCHouse | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Budget cuts that are jeopardizing our environment

Here’s the first column for the Indy in several years. Glad to be back doing it. Not happy about having to share this unfortunate bit [...]
May 18, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, Environment, NCHouse | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Higher Ground

Higher ground This county is no more awash in illegals than it was at another time “awash” in Italians, Irish and Germans. If it is [...]
December 29, 2007 | Posted in: Columns, Immigration, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Print column closing

Since starting the daily grind of putting out a weekly newspaper, I’ve been hemming and hawing about whether/when/how to end the weekly print column, which [...]
December 27, 2007 | Posted in: Columns, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink