by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 2, 2022 | Politics |
North Carolina’s economy has looked at various points in history like the rustic horror of a plantation slave labor camp, the grimness of Satanic mills that persisted down south after New England had healed those wounds, a smoky cigarette factory, and a...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 26, 2022 | Politics
Faces of the LGBTQ community in North Carolina. Trans woman, of color, veteran: Lara Americano, Charlotte. Judge, official, first in the South: Chris Brook, Raleigh. Activist, transplant, rising star: Chris Sgro, Greensboro. 300,000: LGBTQ population, across the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 19, 2022 | Politics |
A party that has struggled as consistently as North Carolina Democrats requires a new approach. For decades, the state party has hewed to the classic Southern-Democrat formula of tacking as far to the political right as possible while taking no risks and attempting to...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 12, 2022 | Politics
The usual summer lull in political activity has turned out, this year, to be more of a spike. Democrats, having entered the humid season deep in a funk, now sense that because of a series of transformative events, their future political prospects may be far less dire...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 5, 2022 | Politics |
Wins in the various rankings of state business climates have caused partisan tug-of-wars in North Carolina. When the state scores highly under one party’s control, the ruling crowd trumpets vindication and the out-party waxes dismissive. But the truth is that...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 29, 2022 | Politics |
Challenging Donald Trump in a Republican primary may not be a fool’s errand after all. After years in which the Orange Autocrat’s command of the GOP was taken for granted as absolute, support for the man seems to be softening in key places as the country...
