by James Kotecki | Jul 20, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Issues, Moral Monday, NC Politics, NC Senate Races, NCGOP, North Carolina, PODCAST, Politics, Race, Republicans, The North Carolinian |
Greg Doucette supports legalizing marijuana, opposes HB2, and defends protesters from groups like Moral Mondays and Black Lives Matter. And he’s the Republican – yes, Republican – candidate for NC State Senate District 22. Doucette faces an uphill election...
by James Kotecki | Jul 13, 2016 | Gun Control, Immigration, Issues, NC Politics, NCGA, PODCAST, Politics, Race, Religion, The North Carolinian
Jay Chaudhuri is the son of Indian immigrants, a former attorney for both Attorney General Roy Cooper and State Treasurer Janet Cowell, and North Carolina’s newest state senator. We talk about how his unique background shapes his politics, his work on gun violence,...
by John Wynne | Feb 8, 2016 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, Race, US House |
So congressional districts 1 and 12 have been deemed illegal racial gerrymanders by a federal court. The court found that race, not politics, predominated in the drawing of those two districts, dispelling the fiction that the General Assembly didn’t know what...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 19, 2016 | Editor's Blog, Poverty, Race |
Yesterday, we honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose work included expanding access to the polls to people who had been denied the right to vote by laws passed by state governments. Until the Civil Rights Movement that King led jarred the conscience of the...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 8, 2016 | Editor's Blog, Education, Race |
It looks like Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest wants to pick and choose his data. Forest rejected a report showing that charter schools in the state are disproportionally white and wealthy. That’s not what the light guv wanted to hear. He rejected the report as too...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 17, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Race |
The terrorist attacks in Paris have shown how divided we are as a country. Yesterday, President Obama said in a speech that sending in ground troops to defeat Daesh is not the answer. He also said that the United States would not turn its back on Syrian refugees....
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