by Thomas Mills | Feb 7, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
The Supreme Court of North Carolina struck down the state’s heavily gerrymandered districts that would have given Republicans at least ten, and possibly eleven, of fourteen Congressional seats. The legislative redistricting might have given the GOP veto proof...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2022 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog |
Back in the early 1990s, my ex-wife was studying public health and I was working as a carpenter. I came home with some injury and called it an accident. She told me that her professor said that there are no such things as accidents, because every event has a cause and...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 2, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Facebook serves me up a lot posts that are supposedly history. Often they’re false and a lot of them are about the Civil War and about Confederates in particular. They come from pages with names like “Defending the Heritage” or just “Confederates.” Facebook says they...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 31, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
Last week more clearly defined the direction in which the Republican Party is moving. Even relatively moderate conservatives blasted Joe Biden for pledging to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. They also went out of their way to defend the book-banning taking...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 28, 2022 | Editor's Blog |
On Wednesday, Mac McCorkle and Rachel Salzberg released a study that show North Carolina’s “countrypolitan” counties hold the key to victory for Republicans in North Carolina. According the authors, Democrats need to cut into the GOP margin in these counties if they...
