by Thomas Mills | Oct 1, 2019 | Editor's Blog
They caught him red handed. The video leaves no doubt about it. Interim East Carolina Chancellor Dan Gerlach got caught trying to dance. Those moves were virtually criminal. He made Steve Martin in “The Jerk” look like Fred Astair. But that wasn’t the end of it....
by Thomas Mills | Sep 30, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
What a week last week was. Say that five times in a row. You might as well get used to it. We’ll be saying it a lot heading into 2020. On the national scene, Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s admission that he asked a foreign government to...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 27, 2019 | Editor's Blog, UNC
UNC Board of Governor’s Chair Harry Smith is stepping down next week, continuing the revolving door at the UNC system that’s left the university in a constant state of flux. His resignation reflects the utter failure of the GOP to manage the state’s Crown Jewel and...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 26, 2019 | Editor's Blog |
Michael McKinney died yesterday. He was 55 years old. I knew him as Jack Whitebread, a moniker he brought with him when he moved to Chapel Hill in the mid-1980s. Sometime before that, when he lived in Bloomington, Indiana, he went by the name Rat Rondell. Jack...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 25, 2019 | Editor's Blog
What a week. It’s only Wednesday and the North Carolina House minority Leader took to a press conference to call out the GOP House leadership for lying. The president of UNC Board of Governors resigned, continuing the GOP’s legacy of failed governance of our...
