by Thomas Mills | Oct 28, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Watching Democrats govern has been frustrating to say the least. Biden seemed to start off with a bang, passing the American Rescue Plan and rolling out the vaccines quickly and efficiently. His infrastructure plan quickly garnered bipartisan support. Then, the...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 27, 2021 | Editor's Blog, Redistricting |
As we get closer and closer to new district maps, I have a few thoughts on redistricting, some of which I expressed last week. In particular, there’s no way to take politics out of the process, but there are better ways than others to do it. In North Carolina, we’ve...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 25, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
This weekend, I watched the new HBO documentary, Four Hours in the Capitol, about the insurrection of January 6. Combined with the news coming out of the investigations, any American patriot should be outraged. The perpetrators of the attack clearly intended to...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 22, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Last week, I got another email accusing me of being a centrist hack. The writer said, “You can talk a fairly progressive game at times but always seem to fall back on this belief that all the voters are in the center. This nation is so polarized that...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 21, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
I’m really over the redistricting stuff. I don’t want to see any more proposed maps. I don’t want any more speculation. I don’t want any more polls showing what people want or don’t want. I don’t want any more public hearings. I just want to see the maps. This...
