by Thomas Mills | May 22, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog, NCGOP |
The fight between the ideologues and pragmatists in the GOP is wide open. The current leader of the pragmatists is Speaker Tim Moore. Moore is a native North Carolinian who is the son of storekeepers. He knows the story of this state and the role education plays in...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 17, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
John Drescher of the News & Observer once called Sen. Phil Berger “a serious elected official with ambition and vision.” And Drescher was right. Unfortunately for all but the wealthiest of us, Berger’s vision includes as little government as possible and that...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 21, 2013 | Economic Development, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP
North Carolina needs a serious conversation about what to do with the rural areas of our state. Since 2010, 47 of our 100 counties have lost population and the people who are left are old. Unemployment in many of our rural counties is still in double digits....
by Thomas Mills | Jun 19, 2013 | Economic Development, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, Politics
The N&O doubled down on their Bob Luddy-inspired attack on the Rural Center on the op-ed page, where the original series belonged, and a follow-up “news” article. The paper still has not identified Luddy or his motives. However, it defends not talking to grant...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 17, 2013 | Economic Development, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Well, N&O, you got played. You wandered into an ideological budget debate and did a hatchet job on the N.C. Rural Center. To call it poor journalism would be an insult to journalism. It’s quite clearly an opinion piece that started out with a point of view and...
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