Month: May 2022

AL Political Reporter: “Alabama’s unemployment rate is at a new record low, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office announced Friday.  The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 2.8 percent, down from March’s 2.9 percent and April 2021’s rate of 3,6 percent.  The civilian labor force increased by 25,203 from last year, reaching 2,276,397. The state’s number…

Watauga Watch: “…Cawthorn’s meteoric rise and sudden fall is pretty much complete, though he has months still to spend in office embarrassing himself and the rest of us.  Cawthorn did crack the magic 30% threshold, taking 31.90% of the vote, but state Senator Chuck Edwards did better with 33.40%. The much-ballyhooed moderate woman Wendy Nevarez,…

WaPo: “Cheri Beasley is hoping her penchant for making history continues as she seeks to become North Carolina’s Democratic nominee for the Senate. “North Carolinians know that there is so much at stake in this election,” she told the Daily Tar Heel in January. “From lowering costs, to protecting our fundamental rights, reforming student debt…

Political Wire: “Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) won the Republican nomination for Senate in North Carolina on Tuesday, with a lift from former president Donald Trump who endorsed him in a crowded primary that included former governor Pat McCrory (R),” the Washington Post reports. “Budd will face Cheri Beasley, the first Black woman to serve as a state…

ChickenFriedPolitics: “The fall contest for U.S. Senate in Kentucky will be a showdown between Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul and Democratic challenger Charles Booker, who both easily won their primaries Tuesday. … In the Senate race, Paul, from Bowling Green, easily defeated five little-known Republican challengers in his bid for a third term, while Booker dominated a four-candidate…

NC Policy Watch: “In case you missed it, be sure to check out this morning’s on-the-mark column by veteran journalist and News & Observer columnist Ned Barnett: “NC Supreme Court justice criticizes a fellow GOP judge for not weighing party in hiring.” As Barnett explains in sobering detail, the ongoing descent of North Carolina’s judiciary into blatant and inappropriate…

AL Political Reporter: “Transgender youth in Alabama can once again receive medical treatment for gender dysphoria as a federal judge has issued an injunction against the Alabama law seeking to criminalize the care. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, allowed the law to go into effect last Sunday…

AR Times: “Niko Omilona, a YouTube entertainer, visited Harrison and found it not at all racist, but he was directed to the source of much of the city’s reputation to Zinc and the home and church of KKK leader Thomas Robb. Omilona said he was a BBC interviewer and Robb spoke with him at length,…

WFAE: “In 1974, author John Egerton wrote a book titled “The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America.” He believed the South, and the entire country had become stronger as a result of the civil rights movement. Still, he remained skeptical, writing: “The South and the nation are not exchanging strengths as much as they…

Planned Parenthood: “Abortion is still legal. It’s still your right. But the Supreme Court is prepared to end your constitutional right to abortion. Our country is facing an abortion access crisis.  By this summer, 26 states could move to ban abortion — affecting 36 million women, plus more people who can become pregnant. This is…