by Thomas Mills | Jun 17, 2013 | Economic Development, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Well, N&O, you got played. You wandered into an ideological budget debate and did a hatchet job on the N.C. Rural Center. To call it poor journalism would be an insult to journalism. It’s quite clearly an opinion piece that started out with a point of view and...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 7, 2013 | Economic Development, Economy, Editor's Blog, NC Politics
In the summer of 2007, I drove across a bridge in Minneapolis that spanned the Mississippi river. It was slow going because road construction narrowed it to one lane in each direction. Less than 24 hours after I crossed, the bridge fell into the river killing 13...
by Michael Cooper | May 15, 2013 | Economic Development, Features, NC Politics
Our guest blogger is Michael A. Cooper, Jr., a contributing writer for Campus Progress, Creative Loafing Charlotte, The Record of Wilkes Newspaper, and Charlotte Magazine. He is a recent graduate of the Charlotte School of Law, and was a 2009 New Leaders Fellow at the...