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It’s not often that you walk into a mainly Sports Bar & Grill and find Sunday Gospel Music and a family staff waiting to fix you Sunday dinner . Ignore the same bar, same tables, and same pool tables. While wings, burgers,…Read More »
Mr. Mayor, After viewing the January 2020 Town of Rutherfordton Council meeting, I noted the excessive length of time and number or critical issues submitted and approved. It appears, the tactic to bundle controversial issues in long meetings is making it more…Read More »
By Billy Ball, The Pulse, NC Policy Watch Whatever you think of U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, add “utterly clueless” to the list. North Carolina’s Republican senator, pilloried last year for his bizarre flip-flop on President Trump’s emergency declaration, is now earning a lashing for his…Read More »
By Rob Schofield, NC Policy Watch Nine years ago in this space, Policy Watch reported on one of the most consistently pernicious aspects of the “North Carolina Education Lottery”: the issue of chronic, even addictive, lottery play by vulnerable people. As was…Read More »
Weekend humor from Celia Rivenbark: By Celia Rivenbark, NC POLICY WATCH Like any normal American woman who lives off snark and Little Debbie Raisin Cakes, I was completely mystified the first time I saw the now famous Peloton ad. Why does that pretty…Read More »
WRITTEN BY Patrick McHugh, NC JUSTICE.Org A new report shows how much North Carolina’s economy stands to gain from expanding Medicaid. Authored by researchers at George Washington University, the report updates an analysis originally conducted in 2014. The report estimates that the first…Read More »
By Rob Schofield, NC POLICY WATCH In case you missed it, a new report released earlier this week by the good people at Environment North Carolina confirms once again the utter folly of the Trump administration’s plan to bring offshore oil drilling to…Read More »
By Rob Schofield, NC POLICY WATCH Well, that appears to be a wrap. The 2019 legislative session that commenced way back in January and dragged on in desultory fashion for months past its usual adjournment date finally petered out a couple of…Read More »
By Billy Ball, NC POLICY WATCH It may be difficult to say how you are feeling this morning, two mornings after a Superior Court panel — facing the impending launch of the 2020 election cycle — choked down another GOP-manipulated map for North Carolina…Read More »
By Rob Schofield NC Policy Watch Here’s a glimmer of good news that might just be shareable at your Thanksgiving table: the latest Gallup poll shows that the the decline in public support for the death penalty appears to have reached a tipping…Read More »
