More evidence that the UNC Board of Governors is doing Phil Berger’s bidding

by Alexander H. Jones | March 22, 2019 | Politics | 0 Comments

Asked about recent turmoil on the UNC Board of Governors, Phil Berger intoned, "the board is making some changes to to the university functions and operates. That's going to result, I think, in some folks not being fully happy with that." Those "folks" encompass...

GOP Continues Crusade Against UNC System

by Kirk Kovach | Mar 22, 2019 | The Kovach Corner | 0 Comments

The GOP is hostile to higher education in North Carolina, doubling down on poor leadership yet again.

In the name of Trump

by Thomas Mills | Mar 22, 2019 | Editor's Blog | 0 Comments

Fealty to Donald Trump requires debasing yourself. Ever since Chris Christie went from presidential frontrunner to Trump errand boy, we’ve watched a string of otherwise self-respecting Republicans embarrass themselves to stay in Trumps good graces. It’s not enough...

An Acrimonious Primary

by Kirk Kovach | Mar 21, 2019 | The Kovach Corner | 0 Comments

This race is the Republicans’ to lose, and by all indications so far, they are trying their damndest.

Democrats in NC special elections need to distance themselves from the presidential primary conversation

by Thomas Mills | Mar 21, 2019 | Editor's Blog | 0 Comments

Yesterday, John Hood wrote an analysis of the special elections that will take place this year in North Carolina. He correctly points out that this year is not last. While Democrats had the wind at their backs in 2018 running against an unpopular president, 2019...

Tillis needs to stop the bleeding

by Thomas Mills | Mar 20, 2019 | Editor's Blog | 0 Comments

A poll conducted by ProgressNC Action shows that North Carolinians overwhelmingly support the Mueller investigation and want Senator Thom Tillis to call for the report to be made public when it’s released. Two-thirds of voters say they’ve heard a lot about the...

The most pernicious NC senator

by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 19, 2019 | Politics | 2 Comments

Three Republicans have put forward a proposal that would be extraordinarily destructive. The bill would give our teachers a raise--if they carried firearms in the classroom. All the bill's boosters represent the base-pandering rancidity of the GOP legislature. But the...

Tillis, Graham destroying the village in order to save it

by Thomas Mills | Mar 18, 2019 | Editor's Blog | 0 Comments

First, South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham blocked a bill to make the Mueller report public that passed the House 420-0. Then this weekend, Donald Trump continued his attacks on John McCain despite the Senator’s death seven months ago. Lindsay Graham, who for years...

Profile in Cowardice

by Kirk Kovach | Mar 18, 2019 | The Kovach Corner | 0 Comments

Now, it seems any vote is a matter of noting the direction of the wind, or reading about the prospect of a primary in the paper.

Weasel

by Thomas Mills | Mar 15, 2019 | Editor's Blog | 0 Comments

Yesterday, I wrote “We’re about to see if Thom Tillis stands by the courage of his convictions.” Well, he doesn’t. His convictions are about as firm and malleable as modelling clay. After penning an op-ed that laid out the case for opposing Donald Trump’s...

A Tillis-Walker primary?

by Thomas Mills | Mar 14, 2019 | Editor's Blog | 0 Comments

We’re about to see if Sen. Thom Tillis really stands by the courage of his convictions. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote an op-ed explaining why he would vote to block Trump’s emergency declaration to secure money for his border wall. Tillis laid out a plain case for...