Jon Sanders

To follow up Donna’s post, it seemed at first that community had reached a mutually acceptable compromise. It appeared that the Weaver Street Market owners had gotten protesters to acknowledge their rights as private property owners, and they also had worked to retain a unique use of that property…

I had expected an interesting cross-section of opinionated people, which could have involved a near-politician-esque overuse of the first-person singular, but that thankfully did not pan out. I had also expected many unique and compelling viewpoints and people, and that thankfully did pan out. The singularly unique “Controversy Outta Nowhere”…

While that isn’t a direct quotation, it is essentially how WRAL led its news coverage tonight. There is a sort of perverse elegance to that. First the state gambling, then the latest on one of the corruption and fraud cases related to the state gambling.

I ask based on today’s News & Observer article: Last week, labor strife in Raleigh prompted Mayor Charles Meeker to meet exclusively with leaders of UE 150. Some lawmakers think Raleigh’s negotiations could lead to change across North Carolina — one of the country’s least unionized states —…

Kudos to Technician for printing this article, about three students — Jeremy Pfistner, Phillip Yeakey and Nathan Smith — who came to NC State after serving in Iraq: Yeakey spent much of his time in Iraq helping the civilians. His patrol rebuilt schools, handed out soccer balls to the…

You know, I can think of few perks for a government commission position better than being flown on a junket to Ireland for a six-day trip to meet with Irish distillery representatives and attend golf’s Ryder Cup. Now, officials stress that no state money was used. But kudos for…

In the Fuquay-Varina Independent, newspaper for a “Main Street” community, one reads this: Cultural Arts Festival to embrace diversity Saturday The Fuquay-Varina Cultural Arts Society will hold its third annual fall festival on Saturday, September 30, at South Park, 900 South Main St. in Fuquay-Varina. “We’re really excited…

Hats off to Sheldon Richman of the Foundation for Economic Education for his essay “I, Liberal” on true liberalism. The bastardization of a great idea has long been a sore spot for me, to which this post from last year will attest: Coercion is opposed to true…