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Price looks into inauguration mess

bkrueger — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:15:58 -0400

U.S. Rep. David Price will help lead a hearing Wednesday on how thousands of visitors were kept out of the presidential inauguration ceremony in January despite holding tickets.

On the late morning of Jan. 20, people were caught outside ticketed areas as Barack Obama took the stage to be sworn in. Many were corralled inside the underground Third Street tunnel, crammed together with few police officers around, in what became known as the Purple Tunnel of Doom, named after the ticket colors. Many were stuck inside the tunnel for several hours without moving.

Perdue's night at the White House

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:31:39 -0500

It wasn't the Oscars, but it was a close second.

Gov. Beverly Perdue hobnobbed with other governors in the State Dining Room of the White House Sunday. Instead of Sean Penn and Kate Winslet, they heard from President Obama and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.

A crowd photo of the inauguration

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:42:50 -0500

Okay, so you made it to inauguration and got a sweet seat up front.

You can find yourself in this 1,474 megapixel, high-res photo taken by photographer David Bergman.

Inauguration draws snowbound viewers

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:53:40 -0500

The inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday drew a bigger television audience in Raleigh-Durham than in any other major TV market in the nation, according to the Nielsen Co.

In the Raleigh-Durham market, more than 51 percent of households tuned in for the day's events, Nielsen said today. Seattle-Tacoma had the lowest viewership, with only 18.8 percent of households watching the events.

Early reviews of Perdue in public

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:34:41 -0500

Two capital reporters say the snow has been good for the governor.

In his "This Old State" blog, Charlotte Observer editor Jack Betts writes that Gov. Beverly Perdue's unannounced visit with N.C. Department of Transportation workers helped strengthen her message that she'll be more hand's on than former Gov. Mike Easley.

The Bassett sisters at the inauguration

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:41:14 -0500

Dannett Bassett, right, of Charlotte, got tickets to President Barack Obama's inauguration from her sister, actress Angela Bassett, left. (Photo by Ryan Teague Beckwith)

Front-row seats for Obama

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:40:36 -0500

Soraya Kaloudis of Charlotte explains how she got front-row seats for Barack Obama's inauguration. (Video by Ryan Teague Beckwith)

A niece's roommate comes through

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:10:39 -0500

Even a distant connection paid off for some people today.

Soraya Kaloudis, 50, got front-row seats at President Barack Obama's inauguration this morning from her niece's roommate.

An employee of Bank of America in Charlotte, Kaloudis was just excited to be at the ceremony.

A large, happy crowd

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:42:54 -0500

Andrew Newby said the crowd was different.

A 32-year-old litigation technologist from Burlington, he drove up to the inauguration with his wife Kate and a friend, Heather Stam.

The three stood just outside a crush of people waiting for the ceremony to begin this morning. The bitter cold and a line that filled an entire city street from building to building did not seem to bother people, however.

From integration to inauguration

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:31:59 -0500

History circled back on itself this morning.

As a fourth-grader in 1964, Joy Vanhook Nelson and nine classmates integrated Aycock Elementary in rural Orange County.

Racists called her names. The high-school student who drove the elementary school bus insisted she and her black classmates sit at the back. And the school was named for one of the leaders of the Wilmington race riots in 1898.