Plead the First

The Pulpit Forum, a group of local, predominantly black ministers, is having a press conference today. Joe Guarino is attepting to paint it as a violation of the separation of Church and State, despite the fact that there has been no religious content to anything they’ve presented yet.
The gist of Joe’s argument (but be sure […]

Greensboro Politics has posted an interview with Greensboro City Manager Mitch Johnson. One part jumped out at me (emphasis added):
Ryan: Does City Hall have a communications problem?
Mitchell: “Um…. Well, Um… I think based on, based on what’s…. I would say yes. We have not been effective getting a message out and communicating the environment in […]

Great quote from Sam Spagnola over at David Hoggard’s blog:
Our government and system of justice puts the burden of proof on the government, not the accused. If Johnson has a case, it is up to him to prove it. Wray doesn’t have to prove his innocence, although I believe for the most part that he […]

For me, the highlight of this year’s ConvergeSouth was definitely the film festival organized by Andy Coon. Don’t worry if you missed it - Andy’s taken the time to post video of most of the films. My personal favorites were the Deadly Finger entries, the Banana Bus, and the Katrina film. There are other great […]

According to Cara Michele in a comment on Ed Cone’s blog, the Greensboro City Council has voted 9-0 to release the recording and transcript of the Wray/Johnson conversation that preceded Wray’s resignation:
Council just voted (9-0) to release the tape and transcript of the conversation between David Wray, Mitchell Johnson and the City’s personnel director, on […]

Thursday night I went with Ged and a few other folks from work to see a taping of NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell me!” at Wake Forest’s Wait Chapel. It was a great show, and fun to see what goes into making an episode. They had the Hornets’ Chris Paul as a guest. Not being […]