by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 28, 2019 | Politics
ShareRepublicans used their supermajorities to fundamentally transform state government. Were a well informed North Carolinian to view today’s policy regime from the vantage point of ten years ago, they would have perceived nothing less than a revolution. North...
by Kirk Kovach | Mar 28, 2019 | Health Care, The Kovach Corner
ShareA few weeks ago I wrote about the simmering battle between the uber-conservative State Treasurer Dale Folwell and his Republican compatriots in the legislature. One might assume that they would be lockstep in their goals, but then one would be incorrect. HB184 is...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 26, 2019 | Politics
Share“All we ask is to be left alone.” -Jefferson Davis This arch traitor and leading contender for Worst American Who Ever Lived, knew what his kind needed to maintain their unjust ideal. To leave the South alone meant, simply, to deprive Southern black...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 22, 2019 | Politics
ShareAsked about recent turmoil on the UNC Board of Governors, Phil Berger intoned, “the board is making some changes to to the university functions and operates. That’s going to result, I think, in some folks not being fully happy with that.” Those...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 19, 2019 | Politics
ShareThree Republicans have put forward a proposal that would be extraordinarily destructive. The bill would give our teachers a raise–if they carried firearms in the classroom. All the bill’s boosters represent the base-pandering rancidity of the GOP...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 11, 2019 | Politics
ShareThe pattern of North Carolina Senate races has been fairly stable since the decline of the “Solid South.” The elections are always hard-fought–by some measures, the most competitive in America–but Republicans prevail more often than not....
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