The New Economy

Go back 50 years in North Carolina. To 1960. The year Terry Sanford was elected governor.   Tobacco was king in North Carolina – politically and economically.   WRAL-TV started its broadcast days (after a devotional) with the Farm Report. The News & Observer had a regular farm reporter.   And the health of the…

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Superdelegates Under Attack

A national Democratic Party reform that Jim Hunt pioneered nearly thirty years ago is under attack.   And state Senator Dan Blue is defending the reform.   There is some irony here. When Hunt was Governor and Blue was House Speaker in 1993-94, the two didn’t always get along. They clashed especially on Hunt’s crime…

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The Decade of Obama?

The Teens may come to be Barack Obama’s decade the way the Eighties were Ronald Reagan’s decade.   Ideology aside, the two Presidents have much in common.   Both were outsiders who ran campaigns that upset conventional wisdom.   Both had lives before politics – Reagan as an actor and union leader, Obama as a…

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