by John Wynne | Jun 9, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Economic Development, Features, Race |
Life hasn’t been too kind to Asheville liberals lately. Their winter of discontent coincides with the GOP’s taking back the state legislature. Since then, progressives inhabiting the San Francisco of the East Coast have suffered injustice after injustice....
by Thomas Mills | Jun 9, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Education, NCGOP |
For years, when Democrats controlled the legislature, Republicans criticized education spending as nothing more than building an education bureaucracy. They said they wanted to put more money directly into the classrooms. Now that Republicans are controlling the...
by John Wynne | Jun 5, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Economy, Features, Moral Monday |
Conservatives in North Carolina have been wrestling for some time with how to handle protesters, particularly of the Moral Monday variety. Writing blistering editorials which mocked them as “Moron Mondays” didn’t work. Giving them delicious freshly...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 5, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Medicaid |
So far, Pat McCrory and the legislature have rejected the Medicaid expansion that would offer healthcare to 500,000 North Carolinians because: Medicaid is broken. they don’t trust the federal government to follow through on their commitment. it would be too...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 4, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Foreign Policy |
The recent swap of Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban commanders is the latest illustration of the media and partisans’ rush to judgement. For five years, we’ve been hearing about Bergdahl as the only American soldier held captive in Afghanistan. Periodically, we saw...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 3, 2014 | Campaign Finance, Editor's Blog, National Politics, US Senate
Let me state clearly that I think the amount of money spent in political campaigns and the ability to spend it without any transparency is bad for our democracy and gives too much power to narrow interests. However, let me also say clearly that the Udall Amendment, a...
