Lunch links

Here is today’s lunch link buffet. Dig in.

A Winston-Salem Journal editorial calls for changes to the Blue Cross contract to administer the State Health Plan so they can’t keep charging state employees for perks and CEO pay.

Wondering why your Time Warner bill is going up?  Footnoted.org has one reason.  The N&O’s Wake Ed Blog reports that the New York Times is now covering the shenanigans of the Gang of Five trying to resegregate the Wake County Schools.

One of the best reports about the hypocrisy in Washington about the stimulus package comes from Bloomberg News and mentions North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler.

D.G. Martin has a list of people he thinks might replace Erskine Bowles as President of the UNC system.

Now your daily dose of polling. Facing South has an analysis of polling data about Obama in North Carolina and what it says about our racial divide.

Tom Jensen has an interesting take on the electoral landscape in North Carolina at Public Policy Polling.

The latest Kaiser Family Foundation health care reform tracking poll once again exposes the myth that most Americans are opposed to reform and Gary Pearce at Talking About Politics can’t make sense of the latest N&O/WTVD health care survey and he has a point.