by Thomas Mills | Oct 8, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
There’s a lot of speculation about how the Kavanaugh hearings will affect turnout in November. Conservatives insist the hearings awakened their base. Progressives believe their side is even more energized. I believe that the episode will be a distant memory by the...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 9, 2016 | Editor's Blog |
Progressives in North Carolina are spending a little too much time patting themselves on the back. Sure, they took back the governor’s office and held onto the attorney general’s office, but they lost the Commissioner of Insurance, State Treasurer,...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 18, 2016 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina, Politics |
When Republicans took over state government in North Carolina in 2012, progressives spent the first few of months of 2013 stunned at the breadth of the GOP changes. The Republican legislature and the compliant Pat McCrory quickly began dismantling Democratic policies...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 12, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
The rancor over House Bill 2 is no longer about bathrooms or anti-discrimination ordinances or minimum wages. It’s now all about politics. Dueling protests fire up the bases of both parties. Yesterday, 700 people showed up at the Capitol to cheer on Pat McCrory, Dan...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 3, 2015 | Editor's Blog |
Pat McCrory has long had a problem with the truth. He’s shown over and over again that he will say virtually anything to make himself sound good or to please his audience. So when McCrory says he didn’t hear a big donor complain that he wasn’t getting an adequate...
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