Plead the First

Last week I posted a link to politicalcompass.org, a site with a quiz that expands on the traditional “left vs. rightâ€? political spectrum. Several local Greensboro-area bloggers took the quiz and posted their results. I’ve plotted them on a handy dandy chart to see how everyone compares: An explanation of the chart can be found […]

Michele over at Chosen Fast has begun posting results from the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County’s 2006 Point in Time Count: 1108 individuals were counted on Jan. 25, 2006 who fit the McKinney-Vento definition of homelessness and were counted using HUD’s accepted methodology for the Point in Time Count. This total came from a […]

The county commissioners have voted 8-2 in favor of the Board of Elections’ recommendation to use computerized DRE voting machines in Guilford County. One strange statement during the discussion was made by Vice-chairman Steve Arnold, who said (paraphrasing), “All the great ballot stuffing throughout history has been done with paper ballots.” Might that have something […]

Today at work some friends and I went to Rearn Thai for lunch. They have a new location, conveniently situated directly across the street from the old location. The food is pretty much the same (which is a good thing), but the new building is very different. Their previous location had a cozy feel with […]

The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has released a review of state science standards. The good news – or, not-so-bad-news, as the case may be: We get a ‘B’. On the whole, North Carolina has mounted a good science standards effort that would be better were the process materials less intrusive and more ofthe indispensable chemistry […]

Over the past few days I’ve been involved in a couple of discussions over at the News and Record’s Letters to the Editor blog that relate to some topics recently discussed here at Plead the First. The first takes place on the letter entitled “A Higher Standard?” The letter writer, questioning a previous letter writer […]