by Thomas Mills | Jan 20, 2016 | Economy, Editor's Blog |
Coastal North Carolina towns are coming out against off-shore drilling. Who can blame them? Accidents off the Gulf coast have closed beaches, caused long-term environmental damage and harmed both the fishing and tourism industries. Drilling poses risks that could...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 19, 2016 | Editor's Blog, Poverty, Race |
Yesterday, we honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose work included expanding access to the polls to people who had been denied the right to vote by laws passed by state governments. Until the Civil Rights Movement that King led jarred the conscience of the...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 8, 2016 | Editor's Blog, Education, Race |
It looks like Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest wants to pick and choose his data. Forest rejected a report showing that charter schools in the state are disproportionally white and wealthy. That’s not what the light guv wanted to hear. He rejected the report as too...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 21, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Redistricting |
Today is the end of the filing period to run for office in North Carolina in 2016. Dozens of legislative seats will be uncontested and only a handful of districts will even be competitive. And the GOP is patting itself on the back because the North Carolina Supreme...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 17, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, Voting Rights |
Back in December 2012, North Carolina had about 6,624,000 registered voters. Back then the state had about 9,750,000 or so. Today, it has over 10 million people but there are only 6,431,000 registered voters. Where the hell did all the voters go? We gained 250,000...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 11, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog, Terrorism |
In recent weeks, the GOP has been bragging about good news for North Carolina. According to them, their tax reform that shifted the tax burden from the wealthy to middle class has worked. So far this fiscal year, North Carolina has a revenue surplus. But it’s come at...
