by Gary Pearce | May 17, 2021 | NC Politics, New Day for NC |
North Carolina Democrats want to change the U.S. Senate math in 2022. But is their problem math or English? In 1990, Harvey Gantt lost the Senate race to Jesse Helms by 100,000 votes. Afterward, a Democratic consultant assured me: “North Carolina’s demographics are...
by Gary Pearce | Sep 1, 2020 | Politics
We Americans have no tolerance for tyrants. We fought a revolution to get rid of the King. We fought a civil war to get rid of slavery. We fought World War II to get rid of the Nazis. Earlier this year, people across North Carolina and the nation protested...
by Gary Pearce | Jun 16, 2020 | Politics |
North Carolina has been through tense, racially troubled times before. What happened 60 years ago should give us hope. Racism is bad now. It was even more pervasive then. But North Carolina had a governor, Terry Sanford, who stood up against racial...
by Gary Pearce | May 19, 2020 | coronavirus, New Day for NC, Politics
Covid-19 might as well be called Divided-2020. When the pandemic started, optimists thought it might inspire us to come together, the way our parents and grandparents did in the Depression and World War II. But if you watch the news and follow social media, we...
by Gary Pearce | Dec 2, 2019 | New Day for NC |
These are bad times for newspapers. That’s bad news for us. It’s easy to gripe about newspapers – and especially big newspaper chains. Newspapers make mistakes every day. And the big chains have made plenty of mistakes in their day. But we, the readers, have the most...
