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Re: Stay Classy Policy Watch
Unfortunately, both Rob and Chris have demonstrated a propensity to misconstrue — misrepresent? — things I’ve written as well. That this continues to happen can no longer be considered a…
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Final Correction Request for Ed Williams
Emailed to the outgoing editor of the Uptown paper of record’s editorial page: Ed: Neal Peirce’s column yesterday contained a factual error. “Charlotte is celebrating 13,000-passengers-a-day patronage” on the South…
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End of Era in Uptown Op-Eds?
Does the latest round of changes at the Uptown paper of record include the departure of editorial page honcho Ed Williams? That’s the word on the street. Guess we’ll find…
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ISI’S Civic Literacy Test
Hat tip: Ed Williams Go take this test of your knowledge of America’s history and institutions. There are sixty multiple-choice questions below. I got 55 out of 60 (91.67 percent)…
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Obama to the Right of Ed Williams
I ignored Ed Williams’ sophomoric Sunday column which pedantically dredged up the Tuskegee syphilis experiments to help ground Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s oft-repeated claim that the U.S. government created AIDS to…
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What Is David Walters Up To?
Besides trying to get attention? I am breaking my own best advice for noticing his laughable column in the Uptown paper of record today, Walters debut as a “community columnist”…
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Meanwhile, at Conspiracy HQ
Art Pope responds to Ed Williams’ Sunday column on the John Locke Foundation and the transit tax repeal effort. I read and re-read Ed’s column and it seemed to be…
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The South Line Lie
Ed Williams writing about the cost overruns of the South line as some sort of recent event that soured public opinion on CATS is still bugging me. The truth is…
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Mary, Mary: Still Contrary
I guess with Mary Newsom going on sabbatical, it has fallen to Mary Schulken to write completely insane things about Charlotte’s mass transit system. We are now six months into…
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Down the Memory Hole with Ed Williams
In today’s episode, Ed avows that the Uptown paper of record got its coverage and commentary of the Duke rape case about right. “I looked back over the Observer’s stories…
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Anti-tax, Not Anti-Transit
The Uptown paper of record today runs my op-ed on this transit business. You may have heard of it. I appreciate Ed Williams opting to run the piece on a…
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What's the Point?
Say hello to the Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education. It is, we are being told, the latest group of outsiders trying to flog CMS to change. Except no one in…