Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Austin Bell
This week’s episode of “The Davidson Show,” Davidson College’s student-produced variety show, is now available online.
Episode 8 features an infomercial by Barack Obama and a visit to Davidson by Sarah Palin. It also offersan endorsement for president in the form of negative attack ads, asks people to rant about things around campus, looks at various [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Laurie Dennis
By LAURIE DENNIS
and DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net
Can’t stop thinking about Election 2008? Neither can we. We’re looking at early voting, the below-average turnout reported at Town Hall, how Davidson grads fared Tuesday, and which candidate scored the most votes in Davidson (hint - it wasn’t the president-elect).
Here are some fun facts to keep you [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by David Boraks
By a wide margin Tuesday, Mecklenburg County voters approved a $250 million parks & recreation bond package that includes money for the proposed community recreation center at Davidson IB Middle School on South Street, sports fields at the new Bradford District Park east of town, and for extending local greenways.
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by David Boraks
Barack Obama won 54 percent of the votes in Davidson Tuesday. But the town’s two polling places offered a split preference, reflecting the difference between the Democratic-leaning older parts of town and the Republican-leaning neighborhoods of River Run and McConnell.
Meanwhile at 11 p.m., Democrats Jennifer Roberts, Dan Murrey and Harold Cogdell Jr. appeared on their [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Laurie Dennis
UPDATED at 8:08 P.M.
The polls are closed in North Carolina, after a steady stream of Davidson voters cast ballots in the battleground that is North Carolina.
First-time voter Vivian Shen of Davidson’s McConnell neighborhood was among many new voters in this election. At her polling place, Precinct 127 on Davidson-Concord Road, election judge Connie Wessner [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by David Boraks
Kids had a chance to learn about elections Tuesday by casting their votes in the 2008 edition of Kids Voting USA. An unofficial tally of the ballots at Davidson’s Town Hall polling station, Precinct 206, at 7:30 p.m. gave Democrat Barack Obama the edge with 89 votes. Republican John McCain got 41 and Libertarian candidate [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by David Boraks
Vicki Blaney has never been involved in politics, but this year’s presidential election has inspired her. The McConnell resident has been working long hours with an army of about 100 local volunteers helping get out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The campaign even has a Davidson office, near Exit 30.
On the Republican [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by David Boraks
Davidson College press release
Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek magazine, will be a Davidson College on Monday, Nov. 10, to give a free public lecture titled “Decision 2008: How it Happened and What’s Ahead.” Mr. Meacham’s talk, which is this year’s Wearn Lecture, begins at 8 p.m. in Duke Family Performance Hall.
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 by David Boraks
More political sign thefts have been reported this weekend. Someone stole signs at a row of homes in the St. Alban’s neighborhood Friday night. And DavidsonNews.net’s Laurie Dennis is beginning to feel like a target: She watched last night as an a carload of 20-somethings grabbed her presidential campaign sign yet again. See “comments” under Ms. Dennis’s commentary “Hey you, hands off [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 by David Boraks
LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE BONDS
$1.5 million for the proposed Davidson community recreation center at Davidson IB Middle School.
Money to extend local greenways: $1.4 million to extend through the town-owned Fisher Farm, off Shearer Road. $1.03 million extend the Southeast Greenway at the end of South Street to downtown Cornelius.
$23 million for a regional recreation center [...]
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