by Thomas Mills | Jul 26, 2013 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Education, NC Politics, Tax Reform
It would be great if the North Carolina legislature took the same approach to education as they did to taxes. Ever since the GOP took control of state government, we’ve heard the same tired line about North Carolina not being competitive with other states. They...
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 Thomas Mills | Apr 29, 2013 | Economy, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
As the recession was crushing the country in early 2009, Republicans, fearing a massive government response, began repeating a storyline that FDR’s New Deal prolonged the Great Depression. The vast majority of economists and historians dismissed the theory but it...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 26, 2013 | Economy, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov |
With Republicans controlling both houses of the legislature and the Governor’s mansion, the divide in Raleigh today is far less about partisanship than about the rural-urban split in the state. For his part, Pat McCrory brings the perspective of a big city mayor and...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 25, 2013 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Issues, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, Politics
The Republican effort to remake the electorate in their favor is coming even more into focus. Some of their tactics are very transparent. For all their sanctimonious rhetoric about protecting the integrity of campaigns, everybody knows that the Voter ID bill is meant...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 15, 2013 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Health Care, NC Politics, NCGov |
George W. Bush once said that he governed from the gut. He sounded tough and a lot of people liked that he didn’t let all those pesky facts get in the way. It wasn’t until we found ourselves mired in two wars and a crumbling economy that we realized his instincts were...
