by Kirk Kovach | Jul 8, 2019 | PODCAST
In today’s Daily Perspective: Medicaid Expansion and the veto override, and a look at the US Senate race as fundraising numbers are released by some of the campaigns.
by Kirk Kovach | Jul 3, 2019 | PODCAST
This episode, we discuss Medicaid expansion in NC, Thomas Jefferson and the Q2 fundraising numbers from three of the Democratic presidential aspirants.
by Kirk Kovach | Jul 2, 2019 | Health Care, The Kovach Corner
Then-candidate Roy Cooper made Medicaid expansion a key plank in his list of issues. Now, two years into his tenure, is the first real opportunity to do it. With Democrats clawing back a handful of seats both in the House and Senate last year, Republicans no longer...
by Kirk Kovach | Jul 1, 2019 | PODCAST
This week, we touch on the gerrymandering decision last Thursday and Dan Forest’s controversial remarks about diversity.
by Kirk Kovach | Jun 29, 2019 | 2020 election, The Kovach Corner
Over the course of the last week, the Democratic debates have demonstrated in succinct form what has been known since at least 2016: The Democratic Party is shifting leftward. Or is it? Certainly, the leftward flank of the party is ascendant now. On the heels of...
by Kirk Kovach | Jun 28, 2019 | Budget, The Feed, The Kovach Corner
Last December I put together a little piece examining the fact that former Rep. Justin Burr, from Stanly, snagged a prime job right off of his electoral defeat. Burr, who has no experience at all in the field for which he would be responsible in this job, skated...