by James Kotecki | Oct 5, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Campaigns, Features, HB2, Issues, LGBT Rights, NC House Races, NC Politics, NCGA, North Carolina, PODCAST, Politics, The North Carolinian
Jane Campbell is a retired Navy captain and an unaffiliated candidate for NC House. She’s also openly gay. After learning her state representative was an architect of HB2 and running unopposed for reelection, she decided to do something about it. UPDATE 10/5/16...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 21, 2016 | Editor's Blog, HB2 |
Before the Bush administration invaded Iraq in 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell warned of the “pottery barn rule”—you break it, you own it. His colleagues dismissed his warning and went marching into a war that has left us with instability in the Middle East...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 20, 2016 | Editor's Blog, HB2, NC Politics |
A deal over HB2 less than two months before an election was always a long shot. Both sides are locked into a campaign narrative and changing it at the last moment adds chaos to an already unpredictable political environment. It was torpedoed, though, before it even...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 15, 2016 | Editor's Blog, HB2 |
For months, Pat McCrory and the GOP leadership in North Carolina have been engaged in a game of chicken with college athletics in North Carolina. In the days following the passage of HB2, entertainers canceled concerts and businesses moved conventions. Pat McCrory and...
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