by John Wynne | Feb 27, 2017 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, HB2, LGBT Rights |
The latest HB 2 compromise bill – probably the most promising one ever in its potential to win Republican votes – is going nowhere. The sticking point? Democrats are opposed to the referendum portion of the bill, where non-discrimination ordinances have to...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 24, 2017 | Editor's Blog, HB2 |
North Carolina has its own version of repeal and replace going on. It’s not about health care reform, though; it’s about House Bill 2. A bill floating around the General Assembly would repeal certain bad parts of House Bill 2 and replace them other bad options....
by Thomas Mills | Feb 23, 2017 | Editor's Blog, HB2 |
There’s a new bill in the legislature to repeal House Bill 2, or repeal parts of it. Once again, the only people happy with it are the sponsors. Liberals say it leaves in place discrimination against the LGBT community. Conservatives like Dan Forest aren’t going to...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 17, 2017 | Editor's Blog, HB2, NC Politics |
Rarely has one piece of legislation caused so much consternation for one party. HB2 is so stuck on Republicans that they can’t get rid of it. They passed it in a special twelve-hour session of the legislature a year ago and then-Governor Pat McCrory signed it in the...
by John Wynne | Feb 11, 2017 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Voting Rights |
As we all know, voter fraud never happens and only exists in the minds of crackpots and conspiracy theorists. Yet, this week, a man in Haywood County was convicted of felony voter fraud for voting twice in the March 2016 Republican primary. (The mountain counties of...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 3, 2017 | Editor's Blog, Obamacare |
Republicans are finding that repealing Obamacare is more difficult than they expected. Now, they’re starting to talk about “repair” instead of “repeal.” They should have done so a long time ago and the ACA would be a better program than it is today and Americans would...
