Plead the First

In the Local (High Point) section of today’s News and Record the top story was entitled “What They Earn”: They patrol your streets, collect your trash, patch potholes and keep the city’s parks clean. They run afterschool programs for your children and help them find library books. They are the city of High Point’s nearly […]

My first cartoon is in today’s print copy of the News and Record, in the Ideas section. I’ll be posting it here first thing tomorrow morning – as part of my agreement with them, they get it to themselves for a day before I can put it up here. They’ll eventually be posting them on […]

Mark Binker at the News and Record has a good rundown of info on the three Republican candidates facing off in the primary for North Carolina’s 13th U.S. House district. His post includes audio files of interviews he did with the three candidates. I noticed that the last audio file link for the Robinson interviews […]

I’ve gotten a great response to my local political cartoons here at Plead the First. Starting on Sunday, they’ll have a wider audience, as they’ll be appearing on The News and Record’s Sunday editorial page. (Yes, the “Anthony” mentioned at that link is me, for those of you who were until now unaware of my […]

Ed Cone takes issue with those who would call North Carolina’s lottery a “tax”. I agree that it’s not a tax, however I do think it is appropriate to say that the lottery is taxed. As David Boyd points out, “What is the 50% the state keeps other than sales tax?” Jim Caserta furthers this […]

Here’s the latest version of Greensboro’s Political Comapss: I find it interesting that many of the results that fall into the center and the lower-left quadrant seem to be “bunched up” in many places – specifically there are four groupings towards which many of the results seem to gravitate. Compare that to the upper and […]

Thanks to everyone who added their results in the earlier thread. I was right – a smaller font size was definitely necessary. I made some other minor changes to the graph, including adjusting Cara Michele’s marker to reflect her actual score, which she sent to me via email. Everyone else should be in the correct […]