Adams may have dashed off this column to meet a deadline, but read in the context of his long stream of work, it tells a laudable story and shows that he is not giving up the fight now that he has gained a degree of job security on campus. The article is probably also fodder for opinionmakers concerning the political climate of North Carolina itself, where Democrats are striving to overturn GOP advances in state governance over the past several years.
Perhaps this is not his metier, but if he is trying to write a daily news article like this, journalists, long ago in a time when we had good journalists, developed a formula for getting to the point you were trying to make. It was perhaps the economics of newsprint and type-setting, but it served humanity well.