by Thomas Mills | Nov 2, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, the North Carolina House swore in a new member from Gaston County. Donnie Loftis replaced Dana Bumgardner who passed away recently. Loftis is a former county commissioner who stormed the Capitol on January 6. Democrats walked out of the chamber when he was...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 1, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
I’ve been trying to avoid watching too much of the redistricting debate because I know what Republicans are going to do. They will maximize their advantage to rig the elections for themselves. Democrats, who are in the minority in both houses of the legislature, are...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 29, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
I’ve been watching the Virginia governor’s race out of the corner of my eye. I haven’t been paying too much attention, but it’s hard to escape it with my Twitter feed. What I’ve seen has been ugly and misguided. Terry McAuliffe is trying desperately to make Glenn...
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...
