by Thomas Mills | Jul 8, 2013 | Editor's Blog, Moral Monday, NC Politics, NCGOP
The GOP has control of North Carolina for the first time in more than 100 years. It’s not going to end well–for North Carolina or the GOP. As Rob Christensen writes, they’ve embarrassed the state and themselves. As a state, we’ll suffer under policies that harm...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 28, 2013 | Editor's Blog, Moral Monday, National Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov |
This week I felt a shift. I’ve felt them before and then seen a return to the status quo. In the past, I thought the shift was toward either a more conservative or more progressive perspective by the American public. I felt it after Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 and...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 26, 2013 | Editor's Blog, Health Care, Moral Monday, National Politics, Women's Rights
Americans love an underdog. They loved Rocky so much they had him boxing well into middle age. Seabiscuit gave the public something to cheer about during the Great Depression. And Jim Valvano’s ’83 “Cardiac Pack” thrilled fans far beyond the Triangle. In the world of...
by Matt Phillippi | Jun 25, 2013 | Features, Moral Monday, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP
Americans love mob movies, they’re right up there with hamburgers and football on our list of favorite things, and apparently Art Pope is no different. I make this assumption after seeing the recent spate of attacks by the Civitas Institute on everyone from the head...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 23, 2013 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog, Moral Monday, NCGA, NCGOP
After spending several days outside of the Triangle and talking to people who asked what the arrests in Raleigh were all about, I was going to write a blog, once again, urging the Moral Monday leaders to focus their message. I was also going to encourage them to lay...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 11, 2013 | Editor's Blog, Moral Monday, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGov |
What do Bashar al-Assad, Muammar Gaddafi and Pat McCrory all have in common? They each blamed protests against their governments on “outsiders.” When leaders make absurd comments like these, it’s hard to know whether they are just living in a bubble believing their...
