Teacher tenure law remains under fire
Whether or not you believe teacher tenure laws in North Carolina need reform, it has become apparent that the changes passed by state legislators last year included a fatal flaw. They required the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
DENR finally steps up
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, March 16, 2014. It has taken too long and too many questionable developments have occurred, but we are grateful that finally the state Department of Environment and... Read More
WRAL poll shows Tillis with big lead in GOP primary
by John Frank, Under the Dome, March 21, 2014. A new poll shows Republican Thom Tillis with his biggest lead so far in the U.S. Senate race. Tillis took 28 percent in a SurveyUSA poll of Republican... Read More
Audit finds 7 problem areas at DHHS
The state department of Health and Human Services overpaid Medicaid health care providers and set up a food stamp approval system that allows county workers to override benefit time limits. The... Read More
Parties to battle in counties
Because I enjoy watching and analyzing legislative politics, it pains me to say this: for the 2014 election cycle in North Carolina, the most competitive and fateful races will be found at the top and... Read More
The misfire of the anti-ACA committee
The folks at the think tanks on the Right are upset that the absurd anti-Affordable Care Act show at the General Assembly this week didn’t garner the one-sided stories they had hoped for about the... Read More
It pays to look before you statistically leap
In late February, some 44,000 discouraged North Carolina workers suddenly disappeared. Relax. It’s not as mysterious as it sounds. What happened was the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its... Read More
UNC athletics dilemma
After four years of athletics-related scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC system president Tom Ross ought to have a firm grasp on the problems faced by academic... Read More
Next to nothing
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 23, 2014. What’s less than a lower corporate income-tax rate? What some businesses actually pay. North Carolina legislators cut the state’s corporate... Read More
Education and productivity; dare we ask?
Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute has authored an interesting study tracking academic performance and state spending over 40 years. What does he find? Despite more-than-doubling in inflation... Read More
