t’s been hard to keep up with all the stories about the fight for the soul of the Republican Party in North Carolina that have dominated the news of this primary election season. The battle between... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, May 6, 2014. It may not be as much fun as other summer camps, but the new mandatory summer program for third-graders who are not reading at grade level may prove to... Read More
One Republican strategist’s take on what happened in Tuesday’s Senate primary in North Carolina: “The Tea Party got screwed.” That’s because, although the primary was cast as the first major... Read More
Cynical Democratic leaders believe calling Republicans stupid, selfish racists is good for business. But how would they characterize their own supporters? What do they think when they hear their... Read More
The Office of State Budget and Management describes the reported year-end state budget hole of $445 million as “disappointing.” It’s not a mere disappointment, however. It’s a symptom of a... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, May 7, 2014. It was one of the basic tenets we learned in PoliSci 101: Play to the party activists in a primary, then scamper back to the center for the general... Read More
North Carolina’s political establishment is fit to be tied. In the May 6 Supreme Court primary Robin Hudson, a Democratic incumbent in an officially nonpartisan race, faced two Republican... Read More
With a legislative battle looming over the extension of state incentives to lure film and TV ventures in the state, a simple, economic reality will be hard for policymakers to overlook. It's the... Read More
State unemployment insurance trust funds, the engines that finance jobless benefits for millions of Americans, were battered by the Great Recession and went deep into debt to meet the demand from the... Read More
Nearly half of respondents in the latest Elon University Poll say the minimum wage should be at least $10 per hour, more people than not believe access to abortion should be made less difficult, and... Read More
