by John Wynne | Feb 27, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Transportation |
We’re having a Tony Tata beatdown today at PoliticsNC. Apologies for the title, which is kind of a misnomer. As it turns out, the reason Tata, McCrory’s Secretary of Transportation, is getting so much heat is precisely because he wasn’t in Raleigh...
by John Wynne | Feb 26, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Gay Marriage |
SB2 – allowing magistrates to not marry gay couples if they have religious objections – was an example of bipartisanship, both ways. In the State Senate, there was bipartisan support for the bill. There was also bipartisan opposition. It passed, 32-16, but...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 26, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Gay Marriage |
When I was a kid growing up in a small Southern town during the 1960s and 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan occasionally dropped literature in our driveway. The pamphlets almost always had two defining features–demeaning caricatures of African-Americans and prominent...
by Alex DiLalla | Feb 24, 2015 | Gay Marriage, NC Politics |
Alex Hayden DiLalla, a North Carolina native, is National LGBT Caucus Chair of the College Democrats of America and Louis Duke is President of the College Democrats of North Carolina. Today, the North Carolina state senate will meet in committee to discuss North...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 19, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Education, UNC |
The UNC Board of Governor’s review of “240 centers and institutes centers and institutes that conduct research, service or policy analysis across the UNC system” was little more than an elaborate ruse. The goal was to punish UNC law professor Gene Nichol for his...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 13, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Tax Reform |
Ever since they passed “tax reform,” Republicans in North Carolina have been bragging about giving everyone in the state a tax cut. It’s not really true and, more significantly, nobody believes them. Now, most people are going to see a smaller tax refund, too. In...
