They're the $10 million men and women. Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above eight figures for the first time last year. The head of a typical large public... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, May 22, 2014. The movement toward the use of digital resources to replace textbooks in public schools – putting 21st-century tools in students’ hands, as one... Read More
As the end-of-the year standardized testing season gets underway in North Carolina’s public schools, some families from across the state are quietly refusing to participate, echoing national... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, May 27, 2014. When do kids become adults in the eyes of the law? Last week, the N.C. House of Representatives decided it wants to rewrite the answer. It passed and... Read More
No one expects Republicans and Democrats to agree on things, but the gulf in their assessments of the state’s finances must be baffling North Carolina taxpayers. Republicans say there’s a budget... Read More
Years before the accidental coal ash spill into the Dan River in February, the waste was being dumped into creeks, wetlands and vacant fields across the state. Scores of private ash sites were... Read More
North Carolina’s Republican-sponsored race to the bottom is nearing another milestone. Come July 6, anyone who applies for unemployment benefits will be able to collect for a maximum of only... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, May 26, 2014. Last week, William “Kyle” Carpenter got the news that he would receive the Medal of Honor next month for his valor on the field in Afghanistan... Read More
by Mike Walden, William Neal Reynolds professor of Economics at NC State, published in Durham Herald-Sun, May 24, 2014. Retired people are on the move. They’re going to resorts, towns and cities... Read More
No matter how many ways Governor Pat McCrory and legislative leaders try to deny it, the main reason they are struggling to find enough money to give teachers and state workers a meaningful raise next... Read More
