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Primary prattle, pardon the typos

by Thomas Mills | May 13, 2022 | coronavirus | 2 comments

The primary election is on Tuesday and North Carolina has had some surprisingly high-profile races on the ballot. The GOP primary for US Senate will determine who faces Democrat Cheri Beasley in what will certainly be one of the most watched Senate races of the cycle....

Victims of the GOP

by Thomas Mills | Apr 8, 2022 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog | 5 comments

A new study confirms that life expectancy dropped in the United States for the second straight year. COVID is listed as the cause of death, but that’s not really true. Other western countries saw their life expectancy increase in 2021 after vaccines reversed sharp...

The 50-50 controversy

by Thomas Mills | Feb 11, 2022 | coronavirus | 1 comment

Dr. Michael Bitzer, the political scientist from Catawba College, posted interesting numbers on Twitter yesterday. Bitzer totaled up the results from all the 2020 statewide races in North Carolina and found the vote favored Republicans 50.9% to 49.1%. That would make...

Democrats are out of sync with the country on the COVID response

by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2022 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog | 9 comments

Back in the early 1990s, my ex-wife was studying public health and I was working as a carpenter. I came home with some injury and called it an accident. She told me that her professor said that there are no such things as accidents, because every event has a cause and...

The extremes seem to be driving the COVID response

by Thomas Mills | Dec 13, 2021 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog | 12 comments

The pandemic debate mirrors our overall broken political dialogue. On one side, misinformed, and largely uneducated, people have thwarted every effort to stem the spread of COVID. On the other, hysterics and hyperbole threaten to do more harm than good, alienating...

The “Who Knows?” point in the election cycle

by Thomas Mills | Nov 29, 2021 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog | 8 comments

For the past few months, Republicans have been giddy over Biden’s falling approving ratings. Bad headlines that began with an August COVID spike and the Afghan withdrawal continued with rising gas prices and inflation. The GOP could taste the defeat they believe is...