by Thomas Mills | Jun 30, 2015 | Economy, Editor's Blog |
CNBC’s rankings for best states for business are out and North Carolina dropped four places from fifth to ninth. A lot of organizations put out rankings and many are more subjective than objective, so take the actual ranking with a grain of salt. However, if they use...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 29, 2015 | Civil Rights, Editor's Blog |
Progressives claiming that the flag debate is a distraction have missed the point. As President Obama made so clear in his eulogy for Clementa Pinckney, a racist white guy tried to start a race war by killing nine African-Americans in a church. Instead, he forced...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 28, 2015 | Death Penalty
Within the capital punishment debate, both sides share at least one assumption: No innocent should ever receive the death penalty. In an important new study, the Center for Death Penalty Litigation explains how North Carolina has come dangerously close to that error....
by Thomas Mills | Jun 26, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Race |
The Confederate flag debate has come to North Carolina. We might not fly the battle flag on the capitol grounds or embed it in our state flag, but we do put it on license plates for the Sons of the Confederacy. Now, Pat McCrory wants it taken off the menu of specialty...
by John Wynne | Jun 25, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGov, Race |
Governor Pat is hopping on the bandwagon on the most important issue of our time: the Confederate flag. We don’t have a Confederate flag flying over the Capitol as our neighbors do in South Carolina, but the state does offer specialty license plates for the...
by Ken Waddell | Jun 25, 2015 | Ads, Education |
One of my core tenets in public service has been supporting public education. The most important job in our society is making sure we provide the best education possible to our children. We want the next generation to succeed in school so they can succeed in the...
