Community Voices Forum Series
With all the misinformation flying around these days, wouldn’t it be great to hear some people who actually know what they’re talking about? That’s what we thought! So, we came up with the Community Voices Forum Series, and we’re holding our first meeting really soon – in two weeks! The next Community Voices discussion is …
Human Nature
The cliche goes that “change is never easy”, and from Cairo to Madison, from Bahrain to Jones Street, that has been the case this week. It was as if the whole world suddenly awoke from a fitful night’s sleep and they were not happy with what they saw. The dramatic uprising in Egypt seems to …
Perdue’s Budget Released
Governor Perdue announced her proposed budget for the next two years just about an hour ago. Here are some quick highlights: – 5.2% reduction in State workforce – over 4,500 job cuts in education support staff (no teacher cuts) – Lowers corporate income tax rate from 6.9 percent to 4.9 percent (equates to $418 million …
Compact Capital
Introducing our newest weekly offering: Compact Capital. Compact Capital is a very short round-up of things going on at the state capital that you should know, but were probably too busy to read, published every Friday morning. Or, put another way, “A pithy update of what’s going on in Raleigh this week – in 140 …
Three-to-one
You may have been hearing about the creative lawsuit, scheduled to be heard in this morning in Forsyth County, challenging the newly-enacted Racial Justice Act. In summary, the intention of the law was to allow defendants of color the option of using statistical evidence of racial basis as one factor when appealing a murder conviction …
Strained Logic
The Wake County Board of Education is like a tumor, growing larger in the belly of Wake County. It is uncomfortable, to be sure, but we’re not quite sure yet whether or not it will metastasize and start destroying everything else, or simply remain benign and allow its easy removal. Either way, we feel like …