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Public Radio East, part II

Streaming audio on PRE website. It’s just marvelous. Try it out…here’s a link to a story on "changing waterfronts in eastern North Carolina."  MP3!!
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Audit — NOT

Washington High School stats: 37.8% of the 10th grade students passed the High School Comprehension Test for their grade. [2003-2004] Maybe more money should go to the schools. Maybe we should pay our teachers a living wage.
Only 51% of the seniors took the SAT test?
Note: NC conveniently does not figure how many students [...]

Power poets

 NC Arts Council has some nice Winston-Salem poets featured online today –
One of them just happens to be our favorite, Helen Losse. check it out. 

Saving historic gasoline stations

   
A Beginner’s List of Preservation — Petroleum Style. As time permits, we will add more links and some photos. This is just a quick page, thrown up on a Saturday morning. No, I didn’t really throw up — silly. I feel just fine. Please, preserve our Pure Oil Station, or I will most certainly [...]

NC ABC and wasting money & time

From About.com
Without researching the factual claims made in a forwarded email there’s no 100 percent sure way to tell it if it’s a hoax, but here you’ll find a list of common signs to watch for…Here’s How:
   1. Note whether the text you’ve received was actually written by the person who sent it. Did anyone [...]

Public Radio East

PRE unveiled a new website recently. Looks damn skippy, if you ask me. Visit it and let them know if you like it. Send them some money to help support it. In the event of a major storm warning, we’ll be posting links on this site to their hurricane info.
Public Radio East website.  [...]

Augustus

It’s been too hot to blog constructively. Humidity and high temperatures make for piss-poor commentarial excellence. Negatory truthiness. Ugly and brash. Best to relax in the cave-like confines of one’s living room, sipping sweet tea and reading The Nation.
Beats seeing $75,000+ of Beaufort County’s tax dollars flushed down the toilet. Shame. Shame. Shame. 

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