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Re: Full-page ads attack liquor tax

bnartist — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:21:07 -0400

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Liquor is absurdly cheap in NC. You can buy a bottle of spirits for the price of a cocktail. I leave airport duty-free liquor stores empty-handed because ABC prices are comparable.

Re: Full-page ads attack liquor tax

Gosh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:43:45 -0400

RTB out. Bye everybody!

I'm so about to curse.

Booger.

Cheers!

James_Protzman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:37:02 -0400

Be nice ... and do good ... and have fun. We'll miss you.

Re: Full-page ads attack liquor tax

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:29:29 -0400

RTB out. Bye everybody!

— RTB

Newspaper Hypocrisy

PoliticalJunkie — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:04:08 -0400

The sooner the leadership of newspapers like the N&O figures out that their future revenue will not be derived from print advertising the better off we're all gonna be.

Give it up. The printed classifieds will be extinct within 5 years.

Kudos to these local governments for standing up to the media and attempting to do away with this wasteful, anachronistic requirement.

It's not like the papers have the same market penetration they used to. I think it could be argued that if public notice is required newspaper classifieds no longer really reach the public writ large.

Re: Welcome to North Carolina, D.C. Reporter.

Gosh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:35:25 -0400

I'm hardly a parachutist.

Of course not. You drive here.

Perhaps I forgot the light-hearted raspberry emoticon on my first response to you ribbing folks in your profession living where you do and reporting on where and what you do, and for not knowing things like there's no such thing as "Western NC BBQ" or that the UNC mascot is actually a ram and not a "Dirty Foot."

Actually, no I didn't.

Keep in mind you brought this up.

Now get to reporting on NC stuff Seattle guy!

Re: Welcome to North Carolina, D.C. Reporter.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:29:49 -0400

I've working out of D.C. since November, but having spent the previous six years living in Raleigh and the the last two years covering North Carolina politics, I'm hardly a parachutist.

— RTB

Re: A Parachutist's Guide to N.C.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:23:55 -0400

Fair enough. I've amended the post.

— RTB

Re: A Parachutist's Guide to N.C.

cfpope — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:23:15 -0400

May I offer a seemingly small but important correction to the article above? Carolina's mascot is a ram - Ramses XVIII. I'm sure he wouldn't want to be overlooked. "Tar Heels" is the nickname for the team.

Welcome to North Carolina, D.C. Reporter.

Gosh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:22:42 -0400

Where are you based now RTB?

Not picking, I just hate the demise of local reporting and two formerly fine papers now using AP to cover NC issues (when it does happens to hit the radar), then posting the exact same story in Charlotte and Raleigh as if people and their concerns are the same all over.

I agree though that the DC Pot sucks my dear Kettle. Just saying.

Tar Heel and Tarheel

jjsmith2 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:14:48 -0400

We should tell some North Carolinians that Tar Heel is two words then, since a lot of businesses use Tarheel.

Please put me down as someone who never wants to be referred to as a Tar Heel or someone from the Tar Heel State. I have no association with Orange County Community College. The Old North State will suffice for the State's nickname.

Re: A Parachutist's Guide to N.C.

domewatcher — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:38:52 -0400

And let's not forget to tell them how dangerous NC can be for a reporter. Do you remember when the big, bearded Palin supporter sent a Greensboro reporter sprawling to the ground? I'm sure those big-shot, out-of-state reporters wear nicer clothes than our local guys and their imitation "Cotton Dockers." So warn them to dress down in case they get sent sprawling to the ground.

Maybe some real parachute training so they can hit the ground in the proper position. Keep those knees bent!

Re: A Parachutist's Guide to N.C.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:17:45 -0400

OK. I've changed it.

— RTB

Fun stuff.

James_Protzman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:12:47 -0400

n/t

Re: A Parachutist's Guide to N.C.

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:53:48 -0400

Well, I'm from Seattle, so I don't pretend to be a "true North Carolinian"...

— RTB