A Message from Karen Brinson Bell to NC Voters

Raleigh, Sep 3, 2020 Raleigh, N.C. – The following is a message to North Carolina voters from Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections: It is illegal to vote twice in an election. N.C.G.S. § 163-275(7) makes it a Class I felony for a voter, “with intent to commit a fraud to register …

Triple-Win Climate Solutions

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." -- William Wordsworth 1798 Agreeing makes us feel calm; disagreeing makes us stressed. Why do that to ourselves when we don’t have to? Fortunately, there is near-100 percent agreement on home-based actions we can take to lessen the harm of a changing climate.  Among them are …

Looking for the do-nothing culprits: Put sights on the Senate

by Norm Hoffmann Trump and Mitch McConnell keep repeating the phrase “do nothing Democrats” but it is Senate Republicans who are the do nothing legislators. More than 270 bills passed by the House and sent to the Senate for action have been laid to rest in the Senate’s “legislative graveyard” by “Grim Reaper” Mitch McConnell. …

Consider these facts about the U.S. / Mexico border wall

Published Monday, January 28, 2019 in The MountaineerB\y Norm Hoffmann                   The wall is a lie. Trump’s border wall initially was a lie, it is now a lie, and it will always be a lie. It is a lie that Trump always wanted to build a wall. It is a lie that a wall will …

Home of the Whopper

Published in the Smoky Mountain News on October 25, 2017 Some time ago a cartoon had Trump’s press secretary and Kelly Ann Conway dressed as Burger King employees under a banner “Home of the Whopper” and Conway saying, “Do you want lies with that?” Lies seem to be the staple of the Trump administration. Now …