WataugaWatch: #ncga and #ncgov -- Ready To Stick Their Thumbs in Charlotte's Eye

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

#ncga and #ncgov -- Ready To Stick Their Thumbs in Charlotte's Eye

Last night the Charlotte city council voted decisively for new protections for LGBT citizens.

This morning, NC House Speaker Tim Moore sez he's ready to lead his Republican troops in overturning the Charlotte city council. (Governor Squishy had already announced that he would sign any law meddling with Charlotte's dangerous trend toward tolerance.)

So it goes.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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