by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 2, 2022 | Politics
Last night, President Biden displayed some political strengths that had been obscured by political turbulence. Empathetic and instilled with the gravitas of a long career, Biden appeared to be, rather than a flailing first-term president, a commander-in-chief worthy...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 1, 2022 | Politics |
Joe Killian is the documentarian of UNC’s troubles. The NC Policy Watch reporter broke another probing story yesterday about political influence at our flagship school. Though the content it conveys pales in outrage to Trustees’ attack on Nikole...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 23, 2022 | Politics |
Between the year 2000 and the end of that decade, North Carolina was the sixth-fastest growing state in the country. But even as the metros and resorts boomed, eight counties lost population. That divergence starkly illustrated the unfairness generated by a global...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 20, 2022 | Politics |
Like a smug frat boy lecturing a pointy-headed nerd, Pat McCrory likes to flaunt his economic acumen. On Twitter this weekend, McCrory “explained” that any time federal funds enter a state’s economy, the money in question is debt, and “a 101...
by Paul Stam | Feb 17, 2022 | Politics |
On February 4 the Supreme Court ordered the Assembly to pass legislative redistricting maps by Friday the 18th. The Court has essentially required proportionality as the measure of redistricting, using mean-median difference analysis, efficiency gap analysis, close...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 17, 2022 | Politics
The maps released by House and Senate Republicans for the purpose of satisfying court demands for fair representation are, to put it bluntly, a joke. The Voting Rights Act requires three characteristics for passable maps, one of which is that they must reflect social...
