Posts Tagged as ‘Mike Easley’

December 2, 2008

Another Depression-era governor?

Gov.-elect Bev Perdue is traveling around North Carolina this month, holding summits with business leaders and trying to gauge just how much of an uphill climb she will have when she takes office in January.
And she’s been reading a little, too.
In an interview with the Triangle Business Journal, Perdue said she is looking back 75 [...]

June 12, 2008

*daps*, or How the National Working Press has no clue

Oh TEE VEE news.
It’s a wonder the National Working Press gets anything right at all.
The 24-hour news cycle. The rushed deadlines. The talking heads. They try so so hard to gain the respect and—most of all—the attention of 18- to 30-year-olds.
They are falling all over themselves to get our attention that it has turned [...]