by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 27, 2023 | Politics |
The North Carolina Capitol building cost our state over $532,000, a sum so gargantuan in the 1830s that it rendered the state legally bankrupt. Labor costs for the project, however, came in at zero. The explanation for this paradox is that our government forced...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 27, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
State Treasurer Dale Falwell announced he’s running for governor, setting up a Republican primary with Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. In real terms, it’s a race between the reactionary populist GOP of Donald Trump and the Reagan Republicans that dominated the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 24, 2023 | Politics |
In 1976, the Democratic nominee for president narrowly carried Mississippi. This man was a peanut farmer with a soft Southern drawl and a modest house in the rolling hills of Georgia. He was a white Mississippian’s idea of a good old boy, and his identity, if...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 24, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
I just got back from Tennessee where their legislature makes North Carolina’s General Assembly look like a bunch of flaming liberals. They have one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country. Under a statute called the Human Life Protection Act,...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 20, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
This week appears to be the one where Donald Trump gets indicted and I don’t know how I feel about it. One side wants him in handcuffs no matter what. The other would, as Trump said, support him if he stood “in the middle of Fifth Avenue and [shot] somebody.” That’s...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 17, 2023 | Politics |
The legislature’s bill to ban limitations on gas stoves is little more than a juvenile exercise in Berkeley-bashing. Following 20 other red states, the General Assembly has peevishly introduced a proposal to preempt our state’s local governments from...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 17, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
I liked the Republicans more when they were the party of limited government. Of course, I probably liked them because they were also in minority back then. Still, they used to oppose government interference in our lives and institutions. Their adhered to the saying...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 16, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
PoliticsNC is ten years old this month. I didn’t know where it would go when I started writing. I’m just glad that we’re still standing today. We’ve been through a lot together. Thanks for reading and sharing. Back in the spring of 2013, Republicans had taken control...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 15, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, my friend Gary Pearce wrote a blog titled “Jeff Jackson’s Bank Shot.” In it, Pearce calls Jackson “the best political communicator in North Carolina.” I read his piece and immediately emailed Gary to let him know that he had pre-emptively stolen...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 13, 2023 | Editor's Blog |
Republicans chose Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson to give the rebuttal to Governor Roy Cooper’s State of the State address. Since the response is usually given by a member of the legislature, Robinson’s speech is an acknowledgement that he’s the front runner for the...
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