by Kirk Kovach | Feb 12, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
The NCGOP is attempting, once again, to distract from their own problems and create artificial ones for Governor Cooper. For February, the imagined “slush fund” resulting from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline negations has been fodder for the majority party in the General...
by Darren Janz | Feb 12, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography
Anson County is a rural county located in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina. Although Anson is less than fifty miles away from central Charlotte, the county is much more demographically similar to eastern North Carolina – it is part of the state’s Black...
by Byron Williams | Feb 11, 2018 | Features, Politics |
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman is correct,...
by Darren Janz | Feb 8, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography
Alleghany County is a small, rural county located entirely in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. One of five counties in the United States named for the Allegheny Mountains (spelling varies regionally), Alleghany County is one of North Carolina’s Lost...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 7, 2018 | Features, Politics |
Republicans seem to think the words “tax increase” are a lethal weapon. Democrats seem to agree with them. House Democratic Caucus chair Joe Crowley just declined to say whether he would repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, offering the lifeless alternative...
by Byron Williams | Feb 7, 2018 | Features, Politics |
Looking at where America currently stands in terms of adherence to its democratic norms, I feel like Vito Corleone in The Godfather, when he asked rhetorically at a meeting with the other heads of the Mafia families, “How did things get so far?” Two respected scholars...
