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• Wake County Board Chair Chooses Jesse Helms Loyalist as Board Lawyer

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  (Photo by Ted Richardson of NewsObserver.com) With the new segregationists now holding a 5-4 majority on the Wake County School Board, Wakes long-standing and exemplary economic integration policy could be on the chopping block at tonights Board meeting. Offering legal advice to the new majority will be GOP ...
  4 days ago

• The thing about puppets

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 140
  New updated map! The most important thing to remember about puppets is that is that they rarely know theyre puppets , as evidenced by the Wake County School Board Sideshow, now on stage at the N&O. Read more
  6 days ago

• Breaking News: Wake County schools release one hour early – The Apex Herald

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 173
  Breaking News: Wake County schools release one hour early The Apex Herald The Wake County Public School System will release students from school one hour early today, Friday, Dec. 18 due to pending winter weather and its potential ... Wake schools close early today Garner Citizen all 4 ...
  1 week ago

• Who is behind mysterious -- and legally questionable -- robo-poll about Wake County schools?

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 140
  Over the last few days, residents of Wake County, N.C. -- the site of a nationally watched battle over its school diversity policy -- have been receiving calls from phone pollsters asking for their views on the countys education future. Yesterday, Facing South editor Sue Sturgis received one of the automated poll ...
  1 week ago

• Community forum on Wake schools set for 6 pm Wednesday in Raleigh

  
  Citizen — Authority: 415
  
  1 week ago

• Jesus wants your help keeping little black children in their place

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 140
  Just when you think the takeover of public schools in Wake County by free-market fundamentalists cant get any more bizarre, it turns out that the new chair of the school board is a card-carrying Christianist, a founding director of Called2Action , a zealot set on remaking public education in his own arrogant image. ...
  1 week ago

• Students launch online petition to preserve magnet schools in Wake

  
  Citizen — Authority: 415
  What critics term “busing” in Wake County — or sometimes “forced busing” — is in reality a web of policies mixing neighborhood schools, year-round schools, and magnet schools  with a limited number of assignments (usually for kids from low-income neighborhoods) to somewhat distant schools for the purpose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wake school board meeting Tuesday has a COW — early arrival advised

  
  Citizen — Authority: 415
  (Update 2: Word from Ron Margiotta is, there will be no controversial issues on the COW agenda Tuesday. Staff is putting it together, his email says, but he’s sure diversity will not be part of it. Hence all the x-outs below where it used to say otherwise, you know, about having a COW.) (Update 1: WakeUP Wake ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wake County: Aiken Knows What’s Better for Your Children

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 134
  You might remember a month ago after the Republicans swept the Wake County School Board elections that Clay Aiken came out and publicly denounced their plans to do away with “diversity” busing.  His words caused him a minor controversy of his own as he was outed (yet again) as still being a registered voter in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clay Aiken Responds to Allegations of Voter Fraud

  
  Clay Aiken News — Authority: 91
  Today, Clay Aiken responded to allegations that he was guilty of voter fraud. But before we get to that, I would like to give you a little background about what led up to this response. On November 12, Clay blogged on his official fan site and among other things, happened to make this comment: What happened to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wake’s GOP Commissoners — all three — make asses of themselves

  
  Citizen — Authority: 415
  Great reporting by the N&O’s Josh Shaffer, which allows only one conclusion: Wake County Commissioner Tony Gurley, pretender to the chairman’s seat, has lost his mind, perhaps in the same location where his fellow Republican Commissioners Joe Bryan and Paul Coble lost theirs. It’s a must-read … and a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Piss Off

  
  In The Pink — Authority: 128
  You remember back in college when you used to indulge in juvenile drinking games instead of writing that short story for your short story fiction workshop because you knew everyone was better than you and you’d never get the chance to be a real writer? One of the less tasteful games that we played at [...]
  2 weeks ago

• All are eligible for H1N1 vaccine at four Wake clinics, December 8-11

  
  Citizen — Authority: 415
  Wake County just announced it: Everyone over 6 months of age is eligible for the next four days, Tuesday to Frieday, or as long as supplies hold. Clinics are open at 9 a.m. in Raleigh, Fuquay-Varina, Wake Forest and Zebulon — addresses are in the press release below the fold. For most folks, it’ll be nasal spray, ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Wake school board majority debuts, and it’s a fiasco

  
  Citizen — Authority: 415
  As the first meeting of the “new” Wake County Board of Education ended last night, more than five hours after it began, I listened in as former board member Carol Parker and former candidate Curt Stangler were discussing what they’d just seen. Parker said she was furious about the majority’s preemptory ...
  3 weeks ago

• QualiCare Maids-Maid Service Of Charlotte NC-Helping Homeless For Christmas

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 470
  QualiCare will also donate 10% of all profits that come from customers buying maid service gift certificates from Thanksgiving to Christmas, in addition to requesting that citizens and business owners join this worthy cause to help the needy this holiday season.
  4 weeks ago

• Wake GOP Chairman Files Election Law Challenge against Clay Aiken

  
  Katy's Conservative Corner — Authority:
  Claude E. Pope, Jr , Chairman of the Wake County Republican Party , Friday,  filed a Notice of Challenge with the Wake County Board of Elections , challenging the right of Clayton H.  "Clay" Aiken to remain registered to vote in Wake County. “It has come to light that Mr. Aiken may have voted improperly in ...
  5 weeks ago

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