Notable numbers
Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake $52,275 What a family of two adults and two children would need to make annually to afford housing, food, child care, health care... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NC House budget overestimates lottery revenues, documents show
The House budget that won approval Friday overestimates how much lottery money the state is expected to receive, documents show, jeopardizing Republicans’ plan to increase teacher pay. The N.C... Read More
How much sex are NC kids having?
Kids in North Carolina have sex and smoke tobacco and marijuana a little more than the rest of the country, but drink a little less. That's according to a new survey out today -- the Youth Risk... Read More
Judge: Lawmakers go too far in limiting protests
by Matthew Burns, WRAL, June 13, 2o14. A Superior Court judge on Friday issued a restraining order against some of the rules lawmakers adopted regarding demonstrations in the Legislative Building... Read More
Mississippi
The unexpected almost always happens – but who’d have expected this: Down in Mississippi the Tea Party has been battling it out with the Republican Establishment, trying to whip Senator Thad... Read More
House and Senate budgets essentially the same at their core
Most of the talk in Raleigh these days is about how different the House and Senate budgets are and speculation about how difficult it will be for the two sides to reach a final budget agreement to... Read More
Chamber's bold statement
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, June 12, 2014. The Research Triangle region has emerged in recent decades, certainly in recent years, as different from much of North Carolina. Generalizing is risky... Read More
Bipartisan lawmakers
The General Assembly did something unusual Thursday. Legislators admitted there were problems with a law enacted in 2012, worked in a bi-partisan fashion to amend it, and probably saved what is an... Read More
What I wish I'd said...
NC Spin has a new weekly online feature, a segment called “After Spin” where the panelists are asked to disclose after the taped discussion, what they wished they’d said. I was asked to fill in... Read More
Screen Gems exec: It's clear we're not welcome in NC
Today’s vote by the House Finance Committee that defeated a proposal to extend a modified version of the state’s film tax incentive has prompted rebuke from the executive vice president of EUE... Read More
