As I looked through the absentee voting data this morning I was surprised to find that 11 counties have not reporting absentee by-mail votes yet. (See chart below) Most of the 11 missing counties are very small, but Durham, Johnston and Rowan were also in the list. These three counties reported that they had not [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Poll: Wake Voters support Tata; not school board
According to a new Civitas Flash Poll, Wake County parents and residents overwhelmingly oppose the firing of Tony Tata as Superintendent of the Wake County Public Schools. Fifty-nine percent of voters oppose the board’s firing of Tata. Parents of children in the school system disapprove of the board’s action by a 2 to 1 margin, [...]
Art Pope greets his protesters
A small group of protesters showed up outside a luncheon in Raleigh sponsored by the Civitas Institute. A new poll on political races was to be unveiled. Businessman and former Republican legislator Art Pope was scheduled to speak at the luncheon. The protesters want Pope to resign from a new UNC advisory board to which he had recently [...]
A question we should ask
So the Democrats on the Wake County School Board got their man. Earlier this week the five Democrats on the board voted to fire Tony Tata from his job as Superintendent of Schools for Wake County. The four Republicans on the Board – all of whom voted in favor of hiring Tata 20 months ago [...]
Not So Free Speech
George Will devotes this column to highlighting the case of Steve Cooksey, a North Carolina man in trouble with the State government for the “crime” of dispensing dietary advice without a license. A sample of Will’s commentary: Four years ago, Cooksey [who lives in Stanley, northwest of Charlotte] was a walking – actually, barely walking [...]
