DEI @ UNC : Ban? WHAT Ban?
Applause rang out from across the countryside upon the announcement that the powers-that-be at The University of North Carolina had voted to defund DEI and shift those funds over to
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Michele Morrow: Thinking (and looking) outside-the-box on public education
Department of Public Instruction superintendent candidate Michele Morrow (R) has had her children in public, private, and homeschooling education environments. She says she’s seen a lot of good in all
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Lil’ Josh toots his horn: Finally “fixed” Roy Cooper’s crime lab mess.
One of the main things Team Stein is touting in the governor’s race these days is the clearance of the testing backlog of rape kits in the state crime lab.
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Fed spending for FY 2024 largest ever (outside a major crisis)
That’s the word from a Congressional Budget Office analysis. ( “Major crises” can include events like wars, The Great Depression, and the COVID pandemic.) Just like in Raleigh, good ol’
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Ask Yolanda
As you can see, Mark Robinson‘s campaign has decided to dispatch first-lady-in-waiting Yolanda Hill out among the electorate. Here’s how the campaign describes the purpose of these Yolanda-centric house
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WHY is the NC School Board Association seeking to decrease transparency on school employee misconduct?
The Raleigh-based North Carolina School Board Association has an amazing amount of influence over our local public school systems. I’ve watched our local school board’s meetings. It seems like every
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Juneteenth: Exactly WHAT are “we fight[ing] back” against?
Juneteenth has been sold to us as an American-as-apple-pie holiday commemorating the date the last black Americans learned slavery had been abolished in the United States. Okay. On Wednesday, the
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Breaking up is HARD to do.
If you’ve followed Mark Robinson and Yolanda Hill for as long as we have, you’ve learned that there are a number of things that are hard for them: following the
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The hottest read this side of Reidsville
That’s right. We’re talking about the legal complaint filed by attorneys representing former Rockingham County commissioner Craig Travis which names, as defendants, Kevin “Son of Phil” Berger and a number
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NC’s Grand Ol’ Party (of subsidized daycare)
As we’re seeing in DC, Republicans around here are tossing out that bothersome plank from the party platform about fiscal restraint / conservatism. Government is not a for-profit business. (Granted,
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