by Thomas Mills | Jan 20, 2020 | Editor's Blog
Today, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His most famous speech is the one delivered at the March on Washington in 1963. Almost a year before that, he gave an early version of it in Rocky Mount North Carolina. Fortunately, it was recorded....
by Thomas Mills | Jan 17, 2020 | Editor's Blog
Yesterday, Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics tweeted a photo of an old newspaper with the headline “Effort Being Made to Impeach Gov. Long.” The article refers to Huey Long, the governor and US Senator of Louisiana who ruled the state...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 15, 2020 | 2020 election, Congressional Races, Democrats, Editor's Blog, Politics
Full Disclosure: I am working with Pat Timmons-Goodson to launch her campaign. Fuller Disclosure: I couldn’t be more proud to be helping her campaign. When Republicans in the North Carolina legislature redrew Congressional districts last fall, they gave...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 14, 2020 | Editor's Blog, Medicaid
Last week, the Republicans in the Kansas legislature reached an agreement with the Democratic governor to expand Medicaid. Today, the North Carolina legislature goes back into session. Maybe we could see a similar agreement here. If the agreement goes through,...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 13, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Nothing highlights the importance of North Carolina in national politics like the massive presence of the Bloomberg presidential campaign in the state. Bloomberg himself has been here twice since he launched his campaign just two months ago. More telling, though, is...
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