“Similar problems arise when I contemplate following Bruce Springsteen’s example and boycotting North Carolina over HB2.”
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“Similar problems arise when I contemplate following Bruce Springsteen’s example and boycotting North Carolina over HB2.”
The Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville recently announced that permission to stage the classic musical Westside Story have been pulled by the rights holders. That loss came as a reaction to the state’s controversial House Bill 2, aka “the bathroom bill.”
More than two dozen college students staged a “high-tech protest” at the Biltmore Forest Harris-Teeter store on June 9 in support of a boycott of pork produced by Smithfield Packing, whose Tar Heel, N.C., hog slaughterhouse is the largest in the U.S.