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14 Feb 2007
Hey, guess what? Our lottery sucks and isn't bringing in nearly what's been promised all these years. Lottery officials promised to make it not suck soon by—I'm not making this up—holding a raffle.
14 Feb 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
7 Feb 2007
North Carolina is considering adding several more vaccinations to the list of what the state will pay for to inoculate poor and indigent children.
7 Feb 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
31 Jan 2007
A few thousand wary eyes are peeled for what's in the set of changes to the operating rules of the N.C. House now under consideration.
31 Jan 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
24 Jan 2007
History now has two additional paragraphs—or perhaps footnotes—to add to the awful, bloody chapter on the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898.
24 Jan 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
17 Jan 2007
It has been difficult to sort out the new Congress without a scorecard, but if anything was noticeable in the first week or so, it was the splitting of what had been a solid GOP bloc.
17 Jan 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
10 Jan 2007
One suspects that as of this writing, State Superintendent of Education June Atkinson and her public affairs staff are huddled somewhere writing a response to a recent Winston-Salem Journal editorial that says her duties are so light, she "goes to work every day, maintaining her trademark cheerful and positive attitude about life, while the deputy state superintendent of public instruction runs the department."
10 Jan 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
3 Jan 2007
It should not be surprising that the announcement by former U.S. Sen. John Edwards that he was joining the field of declared contenders for the presidency was preceded by the release of Edwards talking about what he was going to talk about on YouTube.
3 Jan 2007
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
27 Dec 2006
Recent history for William Powell has involved interviews—a lot of them.
27 Dec 2006
(Arts: Feature)
20 Dec 2006
Counting them down in order, here's the official Exile on Jones Street Top 10 Strangest Political Stories of the Year.
20 Dec 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
13 Dec 2006
In a town as close-knit as Carrboro, it was not hard to notice Sima Fallahi. For five years, she and her daughter Leila were regulars at town celebrations.
13 Dec 2006
(News: Orange County)
Last weekend, 13 weary travelers made their way back home for the holidays after representing roughly a half-million North Carolinians in a Congress now infamous for doing less than its "do-nothing" counterpart of 1947.
13 Dec 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
6 Dec 2006
Touch-screen voting machines suck, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
6 Dec 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
29 Nov 2006
If you needed any evidence that we are at a moral, economic and political impasse over immigration, just review this month's walkout by more than 1,000 workers at Smithfield Packing's hog slaughtering plant in Tar Heel.
29 Nov 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
22 Nov 2006
Opening up the tax code to revision is less like getting under the hood than it is opening Pandora's Box, but occasionally, bravely, legislators have to pop open the lid on that sucker to fix something gone awry.
22 Nov 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
15 Nov 2006
The UNC Board of Governors last week approved its first budget request drafted under President Erskine Bowles.
15 Nov 2006
(News: Orange County)
At 20,000 feet, the level at which the national media generally view us, the political landscape of North Carolina has shifted ever so slightly in the form of Heath Shuler's win over Charles Taylor and the turnover of one congressional seat.
15 Nov 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
8 Nov 2006
Save the recounts, the great election of '06 is past and the ever-growing sound you hear in the background is The Big Shout—the presidential election of 2008.
8 Nov 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
1 Nov 2006
Voters in Wake, Orange and Chatham counties are electing members to a board most of them likely have never heard of.
1 Nov 2006
(Elections: The Election Page)
Sometime soon, Gov. Mike Easley is expected to appoint Dan Blue, who was chosen by House District 33 Democrats to stand in for the late Bernard Allen, the man who took Blue's seat when the longtime Wake representative left office to run for U.S. Senate in 2002.
1 Nov 2006
(Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Exile on Jones Street)
25 Oct 2006
Bland Simpson didn't start out to write a series of books on the life and history of North Carolina's sound country; it just sort of happened that way.
25 Oct 2006
(Arts: Lit Local)
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