More on Erin Paré's transphobia and yet another scandal growing at Lee Roberts's UNC
Representative Paré’s transgender dress code would return our state to the days of HB2. Read More
NC SPIN Posts by Alexander H. Jones
The encouraging backlash to Boliek's voter suppression
Voter suppression is the norm in North Carolina government and thrives anew under Auditor Boliek. Read More
Thoughts on three things going WELL in North Carolina
Despite the fact that the NCGOP has misgoverned our society there are flickers of light and success in our state. Read More
Enough with professionalized "big-time" sports at NC universities
Sports have always been a kind of golden calf in North Carolina higher education but college sports are out of control. Read More
MAGA is weakening in NC. Brendan Jones is its bigoted face.
Brendan Jones is the face of the punitive, corrupt politics that North Carolina Republicans have practiced unimpeded for a decade-and-a-half. Read More
Thoughts on Dallas Woodhouse, the budget, and a new PPP poll
North Carolina Republicans are rather immune to embarrassment on the topic of suppressing Black, young, and Democratic votes. Read More
The human consequences of North Carolina's pseudo-democracy
Republican gerrymandering has insured that the General Assembly’s GOP majority will never lose power unless a future state Supreme Court bans partisan redistricting. Read More
With no budget, NCGOP is showing kingly entitlement
It appears that the reason our lawmakers have yet to pass a budget is they do not feel like they owe their constituents a budget. Read More
Tax cutters looking for ways to raise taxes
New taxes are on the horizon because Republicans have successfully “starved the beast” of state government. The term “starve the beast” refers to a strategy of deliberately cutting government revenue in order to force spending cuts. Read More
The South, racism and America's unpaid moral debts
Put away your Confederate flag, stop venerating the cheap mass-produced monuments to white-supremacists and finally repudiate the murderous ideology that has defined and poisoned Southern society sine 1619. Read More
