by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 1, 2014 | Income Inequality, Medicaid, NC Politics |
Dear Senator Brown: I was glad to hear you lament that “the rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer.” That’s why I am puzzled by your actions in the General Assembly, including with regard to H1224. I was hoping you could clear things up. Throughout the...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 1, 2014 | Budget, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
The budget that the Senate passed last night and that the House is likely to pass soon exposes more problems than it solves. The centerpiece of the document is a pay raise for teachers, viewed by legislators as a political necessity. But the cuts used to pay for the...
by John Wynne | Jul 31, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Immigration, US Senate |
It looks almost certain now that Obama is going to proceed with amnesty by executive order. Such an overreach of executive power would clearly result in calls for impeachment – as it should. Which is exactly what Obama and the Democrats want. The President is...
by John Wynne | Jul 29, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Civil Rights, Features, Gay Marriage, US Senate |
Unless you just crawled out from under a rock, you’re well aware that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a ban on gay marriage violates the U.S. Constitution, and that this will doubtless have an effect on North Carolina’s Amendment One. The...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 29, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Gay Marriage, NC Politics |
The battle for marriage equality is over. The social conservatives lost and humanity won. Most people in this country have come to accept that two people loving and committing to each other is a good thing, not a bad one–or at least they acknowledge that it’s...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 24, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Poverty |
Back in the early 1990s, I went to work as a human resource director for an aluminum die cast company. The company had moved to rural North Carolina from the Midwest because of low wages, low taxes and no unions. They hired me because their turnover rate was so high...
