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Playing the bathroom card. Again

by Gary Pearce, Talking About Politics, April 4, 2016. “Do you want Negroes using your toilet facilities?” Campaign flyer, Willis Smith for US Senate, 1950 Every time equal rights take a new step forward, opponents run for the bathroom. They’re doing it now with HB2. They’re scaring people with horror stories about predators attacking girls […]

7 things you might not know about the ‘Carolina Comeback’

by Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch and NC SPIN panelist, April 5, 2016. Here is something about Gov. Pat McCrory’s alleged Carolina Comeback that you don’t hear every day. Most of the jobs created in North Carolina in the last few years would have been created anyway, without the policies of McCrory and the General […]

Economic developers bite their tongues on HB2

by Patrick Gannon, The Insider, published in Rocky Mount Telegram, April 6, 2016. As the big business objections to House Bill 2 roll in, you have to wonder what the state’s top economic developers think about the legislation sparking debate across the country. So far, they have been pretty darn quiet. And what they have […]