John Hood
Columnist at Freelance
Foundation prez, columnist, TV talker, author, garbage disposal, #FreeCon. Visit https://t.co/Fa5C7XxVn4 for info on my series of fantasy tales set in early America.
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1 week ago |
upandcomingweekly.com | John Hood
Roy Cooper will reportedly make some headlines next month. I have no idea whether he’ll announce a run for the U.S. Senate in 2026. If he does, the former governor will present a formidable challenge to incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis. If he doesn’t run, it will be at least partly because Cooper believes he’ll win — and the prospect of spending the next six years in Washington may fill him with more dread than delight. There’s one thing I know for certain, however.
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2 weeks ago |
themountaineer.com | John Hood
Recessions hurt. North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate hit 11.2% during the peak of the Great Recession in 2010. During the COVID-era Great Suppression of 2020, it briefly hit a mindboggling 14.2%. During such times, we pretty much all know someone who’s out of a job, even if we’re not.
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Mar 8, 2025 |
starnewsonline.com | John Hood
Why aren’t voters more upset about all this? The reason isn’t a lack of concern.
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Dec 29, 2024 |
hickoryrecord.com | John Hood
On March 13, 2023, Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order that removed college-degree requirements from most jobs in state government. “You don’t necessarily need to have a degree to be great at your job and North Carolina is in need of talented people who can get things done,” Cooper explained.
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Nov 30, 2024 |
statesville.com | John Hood
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped business leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative that isn’t really a department but could do some good — as long as its leaders carefully study past efforts at reform.
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