My articles on the new school board majority haven’t been enough. Please take the time to read my change.org petition and click on the link to sign below. Across the country, public education is under attack. The number of for-profit charter schools has increased while teachers’ unions are...

The first thing you need to know about Hopscotch is that it is a shameless ripoff of James Madison University’s MACRoCk. I don’t mean that in a bad way — in fact, I don’t even consider it an insult, because MACRoCk is that awesome. But there’s just no mistaking the, um,...

House Republicans have been out of power for three and a half years and it is driving them absolutely crazy. Maybe the first two years weren’t so bad, they still had Bush and the Democrats caved like a bunch of pussies over ending the war. That must have been good for a laugh or two. Then Obama...

I was a hater. Goddammit, I was such a hater. Always for the most childish reasons. First, I couldn’t understand how people drank sooooo much there — dumb. Next up was raging against those driving 25 minutes to go to MY neighborhood bar — also dumb. Too much self-awareness got me the...

We’re missing something here. It’s important to understand that the new school board majority aren’t resegregationists or even racists. They’re just being led by free-market “choice in education” nuts, who know massively over-crowded neighborhood schools only make...

Way back when anarchists vandalized the state Republican headquarters in 2004, then-state GOP legal counsel & chief of staff William W. “Bill” Peaslee really took those angry youngsters to task: “With all the constructive things that people can do to advocate their point of view...

Wake County has added almost 300,000 residents since 2000. It is the ninth-fastest growing county in the U.S. And yet as WCPSS tried to provide in the face of this explosive growth, they were confronted by conservative social hacktivists at every turn. Defeating bonds for new schools, challenging the...

With Del Burns’ resignation, turmoil awaits the 140,000 students of Wake County public schools as no barriers remain in the way of the machinations of the new school board majority. I might as well give you the short version first: Conservative millionaires funded 100% bogus astro-turf organizations...

Move over, “There’s not enough space on my iPod” and “I can’t find a celebrity for my Facebook that looks like me,” there’s a NEW first world problem in town: the elationship! While UNC babez are struggling to find a man, any man, our protagonist Rich Giorgi...

Caught it late but I caught it: the N&O ran a story on Franklin Graham’s charity operating in Haiti among all those Scientologists and baby-stealers. But those last two are the crazies…not like Samaritan’s Purse! Just ask former Republican senator Bill Frist: It’s this no-frills,...