by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 4, 2022 | Politics |
The fierce battle between Governor Roy Cooper and his rivals in the General Assembly seems, at least on some issues, to have been supplanted by a grudging truce. Cooper and Senate chief Phil Berger still part company on nearly every issue of significance to North...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics
In 1898, Senator “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman of South Carolina urged a mob of white North Carolinians to murder a Black man and make him “food for the catfish at the bottom of the Cape Fear River.” Those North Carolinians wheeled a Gatling gun into...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 25, 2022 | Politics
North Carolina’s only two-term Republican governor, James G. Martin, endorsed Governor John Kasich for president in 2016. Martin had the clairvoyance to recognize Kasich as one of the few remaining Republicans with a tie to the genteel tradition of business...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 23, 2022 | Politics |
The last three Democratic Party presidents have misread the public’s priorities and paid a political price for their agenda setting. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama pursued healthcare reform early in their first terms, a vital policy and moral goal that misaligned...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 21, 2022 | Politics |
At present, Republicans are favored to win North Carolina’s fall Senate election. But the state’s competitiveness dictates that even with the advantages of an off-year cycle and a center-right electorate, savvy Republican candidates should not take victory...
