LOL!
He appears to be part of the powers that be.
http://www.owdna.org/OWD_in_news2.htm
Council praises Duke effort
(May 16, 1997. N&O)
... "I would like to commend the university in this regard," council member Floyd McKissick Jr. said after Duke officials made the first public presentation of their ambitious plan at the council's work session. "Duke has a reputation of being a very exclusive enclave," McKissick added. "People there have little interaction with the city of Durham." Over the past year, Duke has undertaken an effort to make its resources more accessible to the community. To spearhead the plan, the university hired former City Council member Sandy Ogburn to lead a community relations team.
Although council members said they are pleased with Duke's decision to work with the 12 neighborhoods, they said the initiative could have the opposite effect if Duke doesn't follow through on its promises. "Duke needs to build up trust and improve credibility," council member Howard Clement said...
This brings up an issue that I'm very interested in. Who lit the fuse?
I didn't get interested and active on the DukeLax threads until about the time the DNA results came back negative, which was early in April.
Researching the earlier threads, it seems Howlin was just about the first person to call bullshit and say this was all a hoax. But that was after all the potbangers cranked up, on or about March 24.
Now from March 14 until the thing blew up on the national stage, someone or something precipitated the uproar and gave Nifong an election issue.
Now John in Carolina gives credit to a NandO news story on or about March 23, IIRC. He says they are to blame for pouring the gasoline. But who prompted them? Who convinced them to put up the vigilante poster? Was it the AA/CourtHouse Crowd/Lawyer axis that smelled money?
What say y'all?
I have no idea if this means anything, but FYI from Melanie's blog July 26, 2006--
We have a new features editor who's also a familiar face. Thad Ogburn, previously our deputy metro editor, stepped into the job a couple of weeks ago. He'll oversee all features content for online and print, including the daily Life, etc. sections and the weekly features sections: What'sUp, Home&Garden, Sunday Journal, A&E and Travel.
Ogburn has held several leadership roles here: He joined the paper as a copy editor and rose to the position of news editor, the person who oversees our news sections copy desk.
In 1999, Ogburn became the first editor and general manager of the North Raleigh News and led the community section for several years. More recently, he helped launch The Durham News, our weekly N&O/community paper, in 2005. A native of Winston-Salem, Ogburn brings both experience and creative fire to the job. You can contact him at togburn@newsobserver.com or 829-8987