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Thursday, May 5, 2022
Sunday, January 30, 2022
ON WAKE SCHOOL PROTESTS AND THE LEFT'S HYPOCRISY
Let's review content expressed by Jim Goodmon's Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial:
"Berating, belittling, cursing and threatening. Seeing and hearing it from audiences has become all-too-common at local government meetings – particularly at local school boards.
It is the kind of behavior we’re sure -- if any of those speakers saw it on a visit to a public school among students or teachers – would ignite justifiable shock and concern for decorum and safety."
"... many who speak at public meetings are belligerent and threatening toward the elected to local board and commission members as well as to the professional administrators and even classroom teachers."
We'll take the bait and accept Goodmon/WRAL's standard for proper decorum at public meetings.
We'll also go down memory lane to 2010 ...
"In an interview Tuesday, Prickett said that at the closed-session discussion Sept. 24 on firing Tata, Sutton had told the GOP members that he and the Democratic members were “going to kick your asses.” The next day, Prickett said, Sutton got out of his seat, leaned over toward Goldman, clenched his fists and loudly said to her, “Shut the (expletive) up!” (emphasis added)
“He asked whether he was singled out as the only African-American male on the board.”
News & Observer - October 24, 2012
"At Tuesday's meeting, Sutton wore a #BlackLivesMatter shirt as he mentioned his near arrest at a July 2010 board meeting in which Raleigh Police arrested 16 people inside the board meeting room. Sutton had waded into the crowd, which was protesting the school board's efforts to end busing for diversity, in what he said was an attempt to defuse the situation."
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022
SPREAD THE WORD
And Raleigh spent millions to open up Fayetteville Street for vehicular traffic when it had pedestrian use for decades ...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
NON-PARTISAN REPORT
In the end WestEd got $1.52 million, raised from these entities:
- The state Department of Health and Human Services put in more than $600,000 in two payments – one totaling $300,000 and the other $304,699.
- The state Department of Administration contributed $200,000.
- The Goodnight Educational Foundation gave $250,000.
- The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation gave $200,000.
- The Spencer Foundation gave $118,406.
- The Belk Foundation gave $100,000.
- The A.J. Fletcher Foundation gave $50,000. This foundation was started by the founder of Capitol Broadcasting Co., which owns WRAL, and Capitol Broadcasting leadership sits on the foundation board.
The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University and the Learning Policy Institute worked with WestEd on the project, and additional money was raised for them. The Gates Foundation kicked in $249,932 for the Friday Institute, and the Spencer Foundation put in another $282,173 for Learning Policy, according to the Governor's Office.
The total cost: About $2.05 million.
Again, non-partisan ...