Why bother?
Not that we enjoy beating the proverbial dead horse, but an article out this morning in the N & O illustrates exactly how little thought the Wake County School Board seems to be giving to the new assignment plan. In the explanation to their article, the newspaper staff stated the reason for their work: Wake …
Plans Require Planning
Things have been relatively quiet on the Wake County diversity debate for the past few weeks, mainly because the Board has stopped saying much of anything to anyone. But the blissful silence was punctured by Chairman Margiotta as he gave his remarks to the Summer Leadership Conference of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce earlier …
SBI with DNA? Great.
While we have been reading about the mishandling of almost every conceivable form of evidence from past years, we can’t help but wonder what would have happened (or could happen) if the SBI decides to treat their new treasure-trove of DNA samples the same way they have treated more traditional forms of evidence. Maybe you’re …
Tough News for Homeowners
Homeowners have been getting hit pretty hard recently. With many of the economic problems eroding equity in homes, sending record numbers into foreclosure, and further depressing prices, those of use with mortgages are starting to wonder why we didn’t just stay in that apartment we had in college. Sure, it was small and smelled a …
Why Justice Matters
As you might imagine, we here at the North Carolina Social Justice Project are inclined to care very deeply about what we view as impediments to justice. For goodness sate, our moto is “There is Freedom in Justice”. Reasonable minds can differ about what exactly constitutes “justice”, of course, but there are a few ground …
SBI Secrets
For those of you who think newspapers are dead, we challenge you not read the Agents’ Secrets series that the N&O has been publishing for the past week. We have been reading in absolute horror the abuses that have been going on for years behind the doors of the SBI. This is the stuff that …
Segregation is Fine says JLF
Did you catch Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies at the John Locke Foundation, on The State of Things on WUNC this afternoon? We sure did. While we at NCSJP are accustomed to disagreeing with most of the positions of the John Locke Foundation, we were absolutely flabbergasted to heard Mr. Stoops say, in response …
Street Fight
We were thrilled to see so many people protesting the traditional marriage protest yesterday afternoon in Raleigh. By all accounts, the National Organization for Marriage (and their ridiculous bus tour) was overpowered by those in support of gay marriage and gay rights, and was amazing that people were able to mobilize so quickly for the …
Public Access
Here we go again. The Wake County School Board announced today that they are planning not only to cut the frequency of school board meeting from bi-monthly to monthly, but that they will also be restricting public comment even further during the meetings, all while further restricting the number of people who are allowed into …
New Normal Gets Old
As bad as things are here in North Carolina, we are actually doing just a little better than the rest of the county, statistically speaking. Federal data out late last week is showing that what we have been experiencing here in North Carolina is pretty much what the rest of the country is dealing with …