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Early this morning, in the final hours of the Donald Trump presidency, the outgoing president granted pardons and commutations for federal charges to several political and cultural figures, as is his right under Article II of the Constitution. Among the most notable were former Trump aide Steven Bannon, former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and rappers…
Yaël Ossowski guests hosts “Mornings with Joe Catenacci” on Big Talker 106.7FM in Wilmington, NC. October 22, 2020, 7-10AM EST. http://bigtalkerfm.com ▬ Breakdown ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 – Countdown 06:00 – Yaël Ossowski Intro 13:45 – John Francis Trump on NC Lockdowns 25:40 – Michael Munger on Capitalism, Big Tech, and Housing 40:32 – Fergus Hodgson on…
For those of us who’ve grown up around the Queen City, she’s only gotten more beautiful with age. The Southern capital of banking has become a premier hub for technology, energy and finance, complete with the fifth-highest major city population boom in the country. That’s led to a more diverse and inclusive economy, but also higher costs of…
A ‘New South’ needs new symbology As a French-Canadian immigrant to North Carolina in my youth, seeing the Confederate flag sitting atop poles and donned on t-shirts and bumper stickers was a normal, albeit strange sight. In school, we learned the Confederacy was defeated in a bloody civil war. In the end, the slaves were…