Itâs fair to say that for many decades now, the federal government has at best looked the other way and at worst encouraged the trends that have caused ever-fewer companies to command an ever-larger share of the economy.
On Friday, President Joe Biden said itâs time for the feds to begin using the tools at their disposal to counter those trends, lest small businesses and workers alike find themselves altogether squeezed out of their share of the countryâs commerce.
There is much in Bidenâs executive order on competition in the economy thatâs of local relevance â and a good bit that should appeal to people from both major political parties.
With COVID-19 upending everything that was routine about public education in North Carolina in 2020, the leaders of the UNC system wisely decided to waive their standardized testing requirements for
To the editor | Make note of where Rep Bishop stood on Jan 6 ansonrecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ansonrecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
five-and-dime stores started by grandfather james melvin pope, they are part of variety wholesalers, which is a discount store chain with more than 400 stores scattered in 14 states, and it s all still in the same family, now run by james melvin s grandson, art pope, who has parlayed his family s discount stores selling to poor and minority populations fortune into his own enormous political power in the state of north carolina. the pope family has given so much money to republican causes in the state of north carolina that the party s state headquarters building is named for them. before 2010, republicans had not controlled both houses of the north carolina state legislature since the 1800s, but then, art pope and his conservative funding network poured about $100,000 per race into 22 different legislative races across the state, and in so doing, they engineered a republican takeover of the legislature. three-quarters of all the outside money that flooded into races in that state in 2