http://www.raleighgawker.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 charter and private schools more attractive. Why do you think largest school board ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/how-our-town-was-astroturfed 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 in a democracy, this is how ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/sboe-member-has-ties-to-god-awful-supreme-court-ruling 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 mandatory ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/the-exhaustive-guide-on-why-your-new-school-system-sucks-part-two 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 which capitalized on ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/the-exhaustive-guide-on-why-your-school-system-sucks-part-one Ess Lounge paid the big bucks to get Ronnie here, so if you missed it, at least there's pictures (all of them deserving of open caption status): If you don't think this is news, go fuck yourself, bro. If you want to read about Raleigh's reaction to the arrival of an ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/jersey-shores-ronnie-in-raleigh-roundup 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 is one town ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/americas-sexxxiest-first-world-problem 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, fast-moving approach that Frist likes. The ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/psycho-christian-franklin-graham-lovin-that-non-profit-status If you thought the headline was like something from The Onion, you're WRONG: America's largest newspaper went to investigate campus life at UNC, where "a student body that is nearly 60 percent female is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges." You ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/unc-sorority-girls-unable-to-bang-bros-of-their-dreams So this week's Indy cover article dissects the arbitrary, confusing, and toothless smoking ban in restaurants and bars. Arbitrary because cigar bars & country clubs get a free pass while hookaries don't, confusing because "private club" doesn't really mean what you think, and toothless because the law doesn't provide a ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/shocker-smoking-ban-holds-up-at-jackpot When you're watching Obama's State of the Union address tonight and wondering how the hell the year went by without your ass getting health care, look no further than Oak City natives Brad and Dallas Woodhouse. According to Politico, the brothers are quite the characters: "The two men have distinctly ... http://www.raleighgawker.com/the-woodhouse-brothers-are-both-complete-tools