by Thomas Mills | Mar 20, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, National Politics, NC Politics, US Senate |
Democrats in North Carolina are getting antsy about the US Senate race for Richard Burr’s seat. No candidate has emerged and everybody’s favorite pick, US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, has said he’s not running. In the vacuum, rumors and speculation run...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 17, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP |
They got Tom Ross. Now, they are going after Scott Ralls. Under the Dome noted that Ralls, President of the North Carolina Community College System, is interviewing for a job as head of a college in Northern Virginia. Regardless of what he says publicly, my guess is...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 16, 2015 | Economic Development, Editor's Blog, Education |
To hear Republicans tell it, North Carolina duped the rest of the country for almost 50 years. We sold ourselves as an enlightened state that valued education, nurtured our cultural heritage, and supported the arts. We convinced people that our mountains were...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 11, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
The bills are bad enough, but the Orwellian dishonesty behind them is the real damage. Sen. Chad Barefoot says he’s redrawing the Wake County Commission districts to provide more representation to rural areas and partisan representation has nothing to do with it. Sen....
by Thomas Mills | Mar 3, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
The GOP’s makers-and-takers narrative is alive and well in North Carolina. Ned Barnett’s profile of state Senator Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg) highlights the victim mentality that defines the modern Republican Party. We saw it in the Tea Party protests and now we see it...
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