Our weekly Top Five feature offers big stories or views from the past week with policy and legislative implications:
1. The dividing of America, The Economist, July 16, 2016
“America has problems, but this picture is a caricature of a country that, on most measures, is more prosperous, more peaceful and less racist than ever before. The real threat is from the man who has done most to stoke national rage, and who will, in Cleveland, accept the Republican Party’s nomination to run for president. Win or lose in November, Donald Trump has the power to reshape America so that it becomes more like the dysfunctional and declining place he claims it to be.”
2. State makes strides in being friendlier to solar, Charleston Regional Business Journal, July 20, 2016
Despite the bogging down of a bill that would have expanded solar efforts, the state continues to make strides toward becoming a friendlier state for renewable energy.
3. How states are luring small business, CNBC, July 15, 2016
Five factors that help lure small businesses: Vibrant college towns; a lot of financing for small entrepreneurs; good transportation infrastructure; local support of local businesses; and low taxes.
4. Trump’s ghostwriter tells all, The New Yorker, issue for July 25, 2016
Insight: Reporter Jane Mayer broke the news in this story that Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” is far from happy with the now Republican presidential nominee. Schwartz, who spent 18 months with Trump in the late 1980s before writing the book, said he now feels remorse for “putting lipstick on a pig.” Trump later told the reporter that Schwartz showed “great disloyalty, because I made Tony rich.”
5. Thank you for my beautiful life, Charleston City Paper, July 21, 2016
City Paper columnist and College of Charleston professor Alison Piepmeier offers a touching, sad column about the kindnesses she’s encountering as her body is shutting down due to the growth of a brain tumor. It’s one of the best-written pieces we’ve seen in a long time. Thanks, Alison.
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