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Earlier today JLF’s Mitch Kokai linked Kevin Williamson’s National Review piece Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren “thinks her voters are stupid.” Right on–and Warren proved it during her stop in Greensboro yesterday. How so? On top of her proposed $2 trillion ‘Medicare for all’ healthcare proposal, which…

Charlotte Observer reports: Mecklenburg County voters on Tuesday rejected a sales tax increase for the second time in five years, despite a million-dollar campaign and support from prominent community leaders. With all but one precinct reported, more than 57% opposed the quarter-cent tax increase, which would have raised $50…

Via today’s press release, the City of Greensboro has launched its ‘No Straw November’ program, designed to increase awareness of plastic straw usage and its effect on the environment. According to the web page, here’s how you can participate in No Straw November Join fellow Greensboro residents in…

The Charlotte City Council has has delayed a vote on a $50 million contract to begin preliminary work on a new light rail line until results from the proposed arts-and-parks sales tax hike on tomorrow’s ballot are known. Should the sales tax hike pass, it would make it problematic…

That’s the proposition Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online tests while describing recent developments in the Golden State. Has California become premodern? Millions of fed-up middle-class taxpayers have fled the state. Their presence as a stabilizing influence is sorely missed. About one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients…

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros was in Greensboro on Wednesday to speak about issues facing cities today. Rhino Times editor John Hammer reports Cisneros praised Gboro for its efforts to become a great 21st century city: Cisneros said, “Greensboro is poised to participate in the new…

Sad news yesterday that former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan died yesterday at her home here in Greensboro. Hagan had been in poor health since contracting the Powasan virus from a tick bite during a hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2016, speculated her husband, Charles Hagan III. Hagan…

At Monday’s meeting, the Charlotte City Council will vote on a $50 million contract that would begin preliminary work on a 26-mile light rail line running from Matthews to Belmont. As the Observer reports, “the cost of the rail line is unknown, but it’s the biggest in a…