by Thomas Mills | May 22, 2020 | Editor's Blog, Politics
ShareWe are in the most uncertain times of my life. The coronavirus has shut down the econony, not just here but in much of the world. We don’t when there will be a cure or a treatment and we don’t know how quickly the economy will recover. With that scenario, we head...
by Gary Pearce | May 19, 2020 | coronavirus, New Day for NC, Politics
ShareCovid-19 might as well be called Divided-2020. When the pandemic started, optimists thought it might inspire us to come together, the way our parents and grandparents did in the Depression and World War II. But if you watch the news and follow social media,...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 7, 2020 | Politics
ShareAfter years of anticipation, the 2020 campaign season is finally underway. Democrats and Republicans in North Carolina have selected their nominees for the general election, and the dynamics of each race are beginning to take shape. At present, the state of the...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 6, 2020 | Politics
ShareFew icons are as deeply woven into North Carolina’s cultural fabric as the game of basketball. After hard days in the textile mills or tobacco fields, North Carolinians would huddle around black-and-white TVs to watch Southern Conference, and later ACC,...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 4, 2020 | Politics
ShareThe polling drought has broken in North Carolina. For the first three years of the Trump era, public opinion surveys were agonizingly scarce in the Tar Heel State. That’s because the state did not have any nationally relevant elections in 2018. State...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 1, 2020 | Politics
ShareFifty-six years ago, a political campaign carried with it an edge of extremism. It was conservative insurgency of Barry Goldwater, propelled by a groundswell of right-wing energy largely emanating from the South and West, that conquered the Republican Party. The...
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