Just curious as to what you might have planned for April Fools Day. Is the joy in getting fooled, or in fooling someone else? What’s the best April Fools Day gag you’ve participated in?
Archive for March, 2008
April Fools Day
Posted in Rebel's Blog on March 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The $11 million question
Posted in Brook's Blog, Economic Development, Local government, state government on March 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Long before it drew national attention as the site of a tragic plane crash in February, the Mount Airy/Surry County airport was tagged as in need of an expansion for economic development purposes. The process is still stalled in trying to generate $11 million in state, local and federal funds needed for land acquisition and runway expansion. [...]
Growing pains
Posted in Brook's Blog, Federal government on March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Around this time each year, the U.S. Census Bureau releases new population estimates for 2007, and the results continue the trend of North Carolina being one of the fastest growing states in the nation. But it’s not universal growth, while urban counties such as Wake or Mecklenburg and Union are among the fastest growing in the nation, rural counties are much [...]
Say hello to the presidential campaigns
Posted in Brook's Blog, Elections, Federal government on March 19, 2008 | 29 Comments »
And so it begins. Today Barack Obama kicked off what is sure to be a firestorm of presidential campaign action in North Carolina with a speech in Fayetteville. and another in Charlotte. Campaign events across the state are springing up to help the Illinois Senator win a Democratic primary that for the first time in a good while will [...]
Time to make your picks
Posted in Rebel's Blog on March 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Who’s your choice in the NCAA Basketball Tournament? Are you going with the “home” team, Carolina? Or are you going more with your head than your heart? Be sure to enter our pool for the community by going back to our homepage and clicking on the graphic at the top of the page. You could [...]
Judge should step down
Posted in Judge Badgett, Local government, Rebel's Blog on March 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Given the depth and breadth of Judge Mark Badgett’s official misconduct, the astounding thing is not that the N.C. Supreme Court suspended him for two months, but that it didn’t choose to remove him entirely.
This is a man who violated the absolute most basic trust the people must have in their judges.
He lied.
Under oath.
To the [...]
Lesson plans beyond the textbook
Posted in Brook's Blog, Schools on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This semester each school in the Mount Airy system is deciding whether or not to adopt a character education program offered by the state. From the looks of it this seems like a good system for what it does — establishing a comprehensive and consistent code for enforcement and punishment of disciplinary programs tailored around the culture [...]
When alcohol and ballot boxes mix
Posted in Brook's Blog, Economic Development, Elections on March 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
With mixed drink sales on the May primary ballots in Dobson and Pilot Mountain, the issue of alcohol sales is sure to soon become a heated one. That’s good, as it’s something that needs to be discussed, provided the discourse is grounded in facts. Here’s a great site for data on alcohol as a factor in car [...]
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