One Step Toward Fixing Greensboro’s Corrupt Machine Politics

The recent massive tax increase passed by the Greensboro City Council was bad enough. But then we learned that 57% of the revenues would be directed toward city staff compensation. That creates the appearance that city council members were paying off city employees for their support during election season; or […]

Governor Stein’s Quick Renunciation Of Confederate Flag At America 250

Our esteemed governor made a deliberate decision to refrain from participating in President Trump’s big state fair– obviously for partisan reasons. When private concerns stepped in his place to create a pavilion or booth at the fair to represent the state of North Carolina, it was found that a Confederate […]

More Willie Jones: Revolutionary North Carolina Founding Father

Jose Nino, Abbeville Institute: When the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, North Carolina elected Willie Jones as a delegate, but he declined to accept his seat, recognizing that the gathering intended to create a centralized government that would diminish state sovereignty. A wealthy planter, radical Jeffersonian, and the foremost […]