The GOP’s false narrative

The GOP’s false narrative

Republicans have a narrative about how they saved North Carolina. To hear them tell it, North Carolina was a spiraling hellhole of bloated government and over-regulation that kept businesses from moving here and taxes too high. In reality, everything that’s made North...
RIP Kay Hagan

RIP Kay Hagan

Former Senator Kay Hagan died yesterday. Since 2016, she suffered from the results of a debilitating tick-borne illness that left her with limited speech and mobility. A long term resident of Greensboro, she was 66 years old.  Hagan was born in Shelby but grew up in...
The GOP’s false narrative

The men behind the curtain

To look at GOP graphs explaining public education funding, you’d think that the legislature didn’t start paying for public schools until 2008. Every one begins with a downward trend for two years and then a dramatic upswing when Republicans took control. Like Oz the...
RIP Elvin Jackson

RIP Elvin Jackson

I’ve reached an age where I’m watching the generation of people who shaped me disappear. Through their examples, they gave me my values and my love of small towns and rural areas. They also built the North Carolina where I grew up. As they leave, they take...

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