Vice President Kamala Harris visits Charlotte. We’ll have a wrap-up of her visit. Good news (or bad news) in school vouchers: 13,500 students are granted North Carolina opportunity scholarships, but it’s not even close to the number of students who have applied. We look at the numbers. On Monday night, City Council member Renee Johnson […]
At City Council Monday night, the city proposed a modification to development rules that would limit triplexes in residential areas to corner lots only. How does this depart from what was laid out in Charlotte’s 2040 plan? City Council also voted 7-1 this week to move forward with plans for a stand-alone practice facility for
It may come as a surprise to hear that I actually agree with Donald Trump on something: America does have a two-tiered system of justice. In fact, you could say I beat him to it since I reached that conclusion long before the former president adopted it as his mantra. I was not even in
A two-tiered justice system is nothing new — and certainly not what Trump says it is Read More »
A lot of people now know about Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina. Some national and international outsiders looking in were shocked at his Super Tuesday win. But I always thought the Donald Trump-endorsed Robinson was a shoo-in. That’s the red-versus-blue country we live in, when many times the “D” or
If Mark Robinson is your standard-bearer, you might reexamine your standards Read More »
Representative Jeff Jackson votes in favor of a proposed TikTok ban in Congress, but Dan Bishop is against it. We hear why. Two North Carolinians are now the co-chairs of the Republican National Committee, hand-picked by former President Donald Trump. Last week we discussed the upset in the GOP race for state Superintendent in North
Super Tuesday in North Carolina ended with upsets (including Pat Cotham losing out on the seat she’s held since 2012), low voter turnout and the end of the line for Nikki Haley. We’ll recap what the primary will mean for the local, state and national vote going forward. The Town of Matthews decided no more
Vice President Kamala Harris marked the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., this past Sunday, joining in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, re-creating the steps of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and other leaders and citizens demanding the vote. On March 7, 1965, that group was stopped by violence meted out
Justice for Black voters? Or rap songs and sneakers? Read More »
North Carolina’s Speaker of the House Tim Moore and Senate Leader Phil Berger said during a visit to Charlotte this week that the city’s top transportation priority should be roads. This is our last local news roundup before Super Tuesday — what do you need to know before you head to the polls? We’ll talk
“The Catholic public official lives the political truth most Catholics through most of American history have accepted and insisted on: the truth that to assure our freedom we must allow others the same freedom, even if occasionally it produces conduct by them which we would hold to be sinful. … We know that the price
Once upon a time, politicians wrestled with the role of religion in politics Read More »
The situation for Ukraine is slipping from a stalemate to again losing territory to the Russian invasion. After two years of combat, will American and EU allies support the Ukrainian cause for as long as it takes? Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate’s war stories correspondent.
