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Doctorate in advocacy journalism
On a not-unrelated note to the A.J. Blake situation, N&R editor John Robinson says that reporter Lorraine Ahearn has won a fellowship to pursue a Ph.D in journalism at UNC…
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Hege opponents keep it up
After having their affidavits thrown out by the Davidson County Board of Elections, opponents of Gerald Hege have refiled, hoping to get the felonious former sheriff thrown off the May…
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Obama’s energy policy: Where’s the laughter?
Writing about Obama’s energy policy in yesterday’s N&R, George Will asks where’s the laughter? Obama has also promised that “we will get 1 million 150-mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrids on our roads…
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Definition of ‘black book’
I realize Spagnola has done a great job of analyzing every detail of the Mitchell Johnson-David Wray controversy, but I still urge everyone to go here and watch the tape…
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Oh, the humanity!
That’s the theme of the N&R’s editorial page. For starters, there’s this letter to the editor from Anne Cassebaum of Elon: The United States starts another year without single-payer, government-funded…
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More Black
The Journal wonders if the post-Jim Black climate in Raleigh really has changed: Legislators have shown some understanding that the climate has changed. Reports out of Raleigh indicate that they…
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Crisis control
The N&R’s Jonathan Jones responds to this post calling his comments at ConAlt’s unprofessional. Fair enough. This is a very interesting situation. The fact that a newspaper is on the…
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N&R layoffs
The N&R lays off 41 workers. Cone has inside sources and a preliminary newsroom tally of 11 full-timers and six part-timers gone. In a brief post, N&R editor John Robinson…
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Jail talk, Alamance County-style
The N&R’s Lorraine Ahearn discusses the fear among illegal immigrants in Alamance County that they might be —gasp— deported. You’d think that would constantly be in the backs of their…
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Silence is deafening
Troublemaker broke the story, while Hoggard providesbrief analysis. But by and large the local blogosphere has been quiet about Beverly Hinson’s arrest. Odd. In my last post on the subject,…
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Problems run deep
On the subject of Lorraine Ahearn’s column, her digging into plaintiff “Rebecca’s” mental condition reveals that the issue is much more complicated than whether or not kids should be cuffed.…
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Expectations
Cone, Guarino and ConAlt on Bledsoe’s latest chapter. To the the truth, the story in print didn’t meet the expectations raised by the blogosphere. I was getting the feeling Lorraine…