The disingenuous budget
There are two pieces of good news about the final state budget agreement released this week. One is listed explicitly in the budget document. The other is how legislative leaders are presenting the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Budget was worth the wait
It’s the journey, not the destination, that matters most -- or so we have been assured by deep thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Steven Tyler. When it comes to North Carolina’s revised... Read More
Let the court decide
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 3, 2014. Make no mistake. State Attorney General Roy Cooper never liked North Carolina’s constitutional amendment that opposes gay marriage. Passed in... Read More
An NC budget aimed at election, not the future
Editorial by News and Observer, August 2, 2014. Ostensibly, the $21 billion state budget formally approved by lawmakers Saturday is a spending plan for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2015. But... Read More
Cutting government spending slowed the economy
How do you take a vacation from doing nothing? The Congress has done just that by adjourning for its August recess with a raft of pressing national issues left unaddressed. But the truth is that... Read More
With midterm elections at hand, GOP legislators get kinder, gentler
Is this the kinder, gentler Republican legislature? This session, in the shadow of a U.S. Senate race and legislative elections, GOP leaders preserved teacher tenure, protected Medicaid eligibility... Read More
Republican infighting derails coal ash bill
It turns out the long “short” summer session of the General Assembly is not ending this weekend. Instead lawmakers are just taking a Congressional-like recess for a couple of weeks and reconvening... Read More
Into the breach
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 1, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory admits his executive order won’t go nearly far enough in addressing the state’s coal ash problem. But he refused to accept... Read More
Tax cuts did not cause $200 million shortfall
There is no $200 million shortfall in the state budget caused by North Carolina’s newly lowered income tax rates, contrary to news reports in a number of media outlets. “It was the slightly lower... Read More
