by Thomas Mills | Apr 17, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
Back in the early 1960s, students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill defied a law passed by the General Assembly that prohibited speakers on university campuses who espoused communist or anti-American views. The student body president...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 14, 2017 | Editor's Blog |
Rep. Larry Pittman is the best entertainment in the North Carolina legislature. He came on most people’s radar screen back in 2013 when he introduced a bill that would establish a state religion in North Carolina. He was shut down by an embarrassed leadership but he’s...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 12, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Trump |
Yesterday was a tough day to be a Republican. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons and then called concentration camps “Holocaust centers.” A few hours later, Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly introduced...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 11, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Obamacare |
For seven years, Republicans vowed to end Obamacare and made every effort possible to sabotage it. When the GOP finally got power, the American public found out Republicans didn’t have a plan and also realized that they didn’t want to go back to the days of...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 10, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
Everybody should read Rob Christensen’s column from Sunday. He notes that North Carolina has long been known as a good government state, in part, because state leaders tried to take politics out of local government as much as possible. Most cities and towns have a...
