by Thomas Mills | Sep 23, 2016 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina |
The shooting in Charlotte and the protests that followed have brought out the worst in us, especially on social media. The partisans on twitter immediately retreated to their familiar positions either blaming the cops and white racism or blaming the protesters and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 22, 2016 | Economy, Environment, NC Politics, North Carolina |
By the early 1970’s, the Brown Pelican was on the ropes. Decades of DDT effluence discharged into the nation’s waters had poisoned that aquatic bird’s eggs and left us only a few thousand of them diving into the water, sustaining ecosystems and capturing the...
by James Kotecki | Sep 21, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Features, NC Politics, North Carolina, PODCAST, Redistricting, The North Carolinian, Voting Rights |
It’s almost Election Day! Here in North Carolina court rulings have reshaped our voting rules. I made this video to break it down. VOTER RESOURCES Request an absentee ballot. Find your county’s board of elections office to check early voting times. NC Voter...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 20, 2016 | Editor's Blog, HB2, NC Politics |
A deal over HB2 less than two months before an election was always a long shot. Both sides are locked into a campaign narrative and changing it at the last moment adds chaos to an already unpredictable political environment. It was torpedoed, though, before it even...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 19, 2016 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Friday afternoon, word emerged that a compromise over HB2 was in the works. The deal, brokered by the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association, calls on Charlotte to repeal its ordinance and for the General Assembly to repeal HB2. The association’s members...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 15, 2016 | 2016 Elections, NC Politics, NCGov |
You don’t have to be on the Left to agree that some outcomes are just bad. Wages should not grow at a too-slow rate. Infant mortality should never rise. Rivers shouldn’t be choked with poison, rural hospitals should not shut down, and a booming city shouldn’t lose...
