by Thomas Mills | May 28, 2021 | Editor's Blog
ShareYesterday, on a drive from Charlotte back to the Triangle, I stopped at Bojangles somewhere between Concord and Greensboro. I had planned to use the drive-thru window, but the line was backed up and there were plenty of parking spaces. I know it’s usually a...
by Thomas Mills | May 26, 2021 | Editor's Blog
ShareGeorge Floyd died at the hands of police officers one ago yesterday. His death set off a wave national protests in a nation that had been locked down for two and half months. The reaction to Floyd’s death and the summer of protests and riots that followed laid...
by Thomas Mills | May 24, 2021 | Editor's Blog
ShareIn the Carolina Journal this morning, John Hood made a spirited defense of the UNC Board of Trustees that is under fire for not offering tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hood takes on critics who declare the decision was racially motivated and, instead, notes that...
by Thomas Mills | May 21, 2021 | Editor's Blog
ShareRepublicans are doing everything they can to control the narrative of our history. In some instances, they want to maintain the stories that we’ve been told about a righteous nation that downplays our most egregious wrongs. In others, they want to change the...
by Thomas Mills | May 19, 2021 | Editor's Blog
ShareFor years, but especially since the George Floyd protests, Republicans have claimed to be the law-and-order party, while painting Democrats as soft on crime. They’ve tried to wrap Democrats around the Defund the Police crowd, despite Democrats’ long commitment to...
by Thomas Mills | May 18, 2021 | Editor's Blog
ShareThe housing market right now is insane and comedians are having a field day. A cartoon floating around Facebook has a man and woman looking over a fence at a dog in a doghouse saying, “ We’re prepared to make a very attractive offer for your house.” SNL did a...
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