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Posted: February 17, 2009

Raleigh editor to be N.C. DOT communications leader

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RALEIGH, N.C. — An editor with the News & Observer of Raleigh will become a deputy secretary at the North Carolina Transportation Department to lead communications efforts.

Transportation Secretary Gene Conti on Monday announced the appointment of Ted Vaden as deputy secretary for communications.

Conti said he obtained permission from Gov. Beverly Perdue to create the position, despite a hiring freeze imposed last fall. The new position was recommended by a consultant to help make the agency more efficient and accountable to the public.

Vaden will supervise a staff of about 20 employees and will earn $117,403 in the new post.

Vaden has been the public editor for the newspaper since 2004. Before that, he was editor of the N&O's Chapel Hill News for 11 years. He joined the N&O in 1977.

RELATED TOPICS: Beverly Perdue, Raleigh

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Vaden lost my respect when he refused to address several N&O readers' inquiries as to one Linda Williams, a hate-filled senior editior at the N&O whose gross unprofessoinalism and vitriol was revealed by former N&O columnist G.D. (Dan) Gearino.

http://gearino.com/?p=340 http://gearino.com/?p=342 http://gearino.com/?p=343

I dropped my subscription as a result and am not looking back. Vaden was nothing more than a puppet at the N&O, now they actually put him in charge of people? Oh boy.
Womble_Fred
February 17, 2009 2:35 p.m.
I see that Gov Bev has learned well from Slick Mikey....create an illusion of improvement....not an actual improvement.

NOW, the reporters will NOT have to wade through the tedious facts of actually getting the FACTS...An Engineer in Goldsboro told her bosses that the amount of Asphalt they intended to put on their UN-NEEDED road was inadequate...

Now the DOT can give them a copy ready press release...probably electronically...so they can file it and we, the public, will be Fatter, Dumber and Happier....UNTIL we have a blow out and ruin a tire on a pothole..

Progress marches BACKWARD!!!!
tgcmisc
February 17, 2009 9:05 a.m.
In reading his articles I could never quite make out what he was doing except calling his liberal buddies over in Chapel Hill so they could tell him what to write. He certainly never got the N&O to change anything on the rare occasion he did have an idea. N&O's gain, NCDOT's loss.
WHEEL
February 17, 2009 8:52 a.m.
And let's not forget the 1000+ temporary employees the DOT laid off because they could not afford to keep them in the budget. NICE.......most of those temps would not make $117k in 5.5 years, and actually bust their rears in the blazing heat and freezing cold.
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February 17, 2009 8:48 a.m.
Hey everybody, back off! Bev was just TIRED and needed a vacation. Im sure now that she is rested and coherent she will revoke the position.......NOT!
etshoney
February 17, 2009 8:48 a.m.
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