by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 27, 2023 | Politics
Last weekend members of Mark Hutton’s family gathered from across the continent and even the Atlantic to commemorate the Charlotte businessman, father of three, husband for 32 years, and my uncle. Mark had passed away the weekend before after a fierce two-year...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 21, 2023 | Politics
What’s striking about the republican legislative agenda is how much of it is completely gratuitous. Consider, for example, their recent ban on socially conscious state investing. This gesture has nothing to do with economic return, and it will complicate the job...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 15, 2023 | Politics |
Every two years, a red flood seems to engulf rural North Carolina polling places. Republican turnout in rural areas has been staggering since the Obama era, and this consistently super performance has ensured a continuing red lean in statewide elections despite the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 5, 2023 | Politics |
Republicans have fired a barrage of rhetorical blanks on the issue of illegal immigration. Relishing President Biden’s struggles to secure the border and listening over-intently to their base, GOP politicians concluded that border security offered a choice line...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 1, 2023 | Politics |
North Carolina has a long history of political competition–and of parties being undone by that competition. The Whig Party reigned over Raleigh throughout the 1840s, growing complacent and deflecting demands from the voters even as their position quietly grew...
