Perspective | First in Future: The Doughnut Hole – Mebane Rash

Leslie Boney

December 8, 2020

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Perspective | First in Future: The Doughnut Hole – Mebane Rash

by Leslie Boney, EducationNC
December 8, 2020

					<h1>Perspective | First in Future: The Doughnut Hole – Mebane Rash</h1>
<p class="byline">by Leslie Boney, EducationNC <br />December 8, 2020</p>
					
<p>North Carolina has a long history of governing from something more or less resembling a middle. But this election season the state appeared to divide people more extremely into one party camp vs. the other. What came out of it was what looks like divided government for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>Our three-part series looks at a question from three different angles, with a series called “Doughnut Hole: Is NC’s Center Disappearing?” In Part 1, First In Future talks with Education NC CEO Mebane Rash. Is what she calls “relationship-based politics” the way forward? Or is it coffee?</p>
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North Carolina has a long history of governing from something more or less resembling a middle. But this election season the state appeared to divide people more extremely into one party camp vs. the other. What came out of it was what looks like divided government for the foreseeable future.

Our three-part series looks at a question from three different angles, with a series called “Doughnut Hole: Is NC’s Center Disappearing?” In Part 1, First In Future talks with Education NC CEO Mebane Rash. Is what she calls “relationship-based politics” the way forward? Or is it coffee?

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight · The Doughnut Hole (part 1) – Mebane Rash

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