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Re: Education secretary to visit Cary

kmisegades — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:51:10 -0400

This must be an oxymoron:

"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy"

Most of the problems and corruption in this state can be traced to Hunt's behind-the-scene string-pulling and cronyism.

What a joke - who wants to bet that the basic theme will be "we need more money"?

Re: Education secretary to visit Cary

BitterEXdemocrat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:12:41 -0400

Will both June Atkinson AND Bill Harrison be attending? Who gets the
respect there?

Re: Education secretary to visit Cary

BitterEXdemocrat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:11:27 -0400

MORE stimulatin money down a massive RATHOLE! STOP letting the government INDOCTRINATE your children! Get them OUT of there as fast as you can!

Re: Education secretary to visit Cary

paineintheneck — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:50:27 -0400

Duncan is pro teacher's union and anti school choice. They'll spend more money and we'll get more poor performance. They know that results don't matter as long as they seem to care.

Re: Education secretary to visit Cary

dryeraseuser — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:39:48 -0400

YUP! A speech is all it will be. More talk and nothing with results, as usual!

Re: GOP chair candidates to speak

locklear — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:00:16 -0400

Bob Pruett, 3rd District Chairman and President of the North Carolina District Chairman's Association volunteered for Chad Adams campaign for months. He was in the inner circle. Except for one thing. Adams knew that Pruett was an ethical man and wouldn't except his affair and porn filled emails, so he told Bob it was all a lie, made up by a crazy woman.

After Pruett looked over the emails OBJECTIVELY, noticing IP addresses and personal information that could not have been fake, he confronted Chad and was told that indeed the affair was true and the emails were legit. He told him that everybody knew from the beginning, including Art Pope, but that they had to have a candidate so it was determined they could cover it up.

Re: Bill: Post meeting notices online

scharrison — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:16:19 -0400

"The purpose is to put it out there publicly so that someone who wants to know what's going on has a source to find it."

No, it's not. The purpose is to circulate the notice as widely as possible, so that a lot of people are aware of the meeting, not just, "someone who wants to know".

I'm sorry, but this is a mistake. You want to put that on the town's website in addition to the paper, drive on, and more power to ya'. Putting it there to replace the newspaper-published notice will guarantee that only a handful of people will know.

You want to talk about Internet penetration? Okay. Craigslist is HOT. It's in the top ten most popular sites on the Internet. But it still only has a reach of less than 2%. That's 2% of the people who go on the Internet, that is, meaning their actual reach to the general public is lower. If something as hot as Craigslist only attracts that percent of people, what kind of "reach" do you think a town's website would get? Exactly.

Apex's little newspaper circulates to over 5% of the population, and Cary's paper has a circulation almost half the size of the city's population, although a lot of those probably go outside the city. Taking these notices out of the newspaper is a bad idea. It's like blowing out a candle and saying, "Ah, now I can see much better."

Re: Where Obama was and McCain wasn't

natdug — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:44:22 -0500

What are the numbers of staffers, comparatively?

Re: Galaxy Cinema to show debates

FFC1304 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:59:43 -0400

WHO is the big secret private individual??? whatta crockash*t...

Re: Doles to campaign together Friday

tangoz — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:50:29 -0400

David,

Please do not distort what you thought you heard on TV.
If we add Georgia and the Ukraine to NATO, we would be required to come to their aid militarily by treaty. Would you not honor a treaty you signed?

Is this also her first public appearance since the AgFirst?

zoobatmania — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:26:40 -0400

I see no events calendar on her webpage and she no mentions of public appearances anywhere online. Is she hiding from the voters or does she think that they need not talk to her, since she is the Incumbent.

Re: Doles to campaign together Friday

Proctor — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:35:41 -0400

Here's hoping World War II veteran Bob Dole can cool down the new Republican vice presidential candidate's speculation about going to war with Russia.

Just think, Sen. John McCain could have tapped a woman of Elizabeth Dole's experience and ability to take the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket, and people wouldn't have to start concerning themselves with Alaskan nationalism and ill-considered talk of a border war with Russia.

David McKnight

Re: Price aide working for Obama

FFC1304 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:10:41 -0400

Wonder if HE can answer the question:

What is Obama's most notable accomplishment that renders him qualified for Presidunce?

What about Munger?

James_Protzman — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:44 -0400

Why isn't Dr. Munger in the debates?

Re: Cary voters on the presidential race

dahedgehog — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:05:05 -0400

Judgment on when or when not to start a war >>> judgment on what church to go to.