by Thomas Mills | Jan 23, 2017 | Editor's Blog |
The two events held back-to-back on the National Mall spoke to the division in America. President Donald Trump took the oath of office and delivered an inaugural address targeted to the same people who elected him, not the country as a whole. The next day, 500,000 or...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 20, 2017 | Editor's Blog |
Ten years ago, if you had asked me if we would see an African-American president in my lifetime, I would have said probably not. But if you had asked me twenty-five years ago, I would have thought that was impossible. Yet, today we’re watching the final few hours of a...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 19, 2017 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
I’m old enough to remember when Republicans pummeled Democrats for unfunded mandates. Unfunded mandates are regulations or requirements passed by legislatures or Congress without the money to pay for them. That’s exactly what Republicans are doing to our public school...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 18, 2017 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA
North Carolina is in uncharted political territory. Not in well over 100 years has a GOP-controlled legislature welcomed a Democratic governor. When the Republicans took power in 2010, Democrat Bev Perdue still had two years left in her term. In 2012, the legislative...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 17, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
With Republicans now trying to undo Obama’s legacy, we should also remember THEIR legacy from the Obama years. In an effort to make Obama a failed president, they broke our political system. Mitch McConnell played a long game that finally gave Republicans both Houses...
