Plant the seed for fruitful debate
m told that while there is no firmly established gift tradition for a 28th anniversary, the modern practice is to signify the event with an orchid. Well, this month marks the 28th anniversary of the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
It's all in the game
What is it about our sports teams that possesses us so? Brazil’s soccer team loses in the World Cup, and a nation plunges into despair, mourning and an angry orgy of recrimination. A national... Read More
Tempers flare; no budget in sight
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, July 14, 2014. Two weeks into the new fiscal year, the N.C. General Assembly seems no closer to passing a revised state budget than it was before legislators... Read More
Don't forget the lottery losers
Behind every state lottery dollar that goes to education is a loser. There's also a winner – the teacher whose salary it pays, the student who gets a scholarship or the district where a new school... Read More
Tweeting in church? Sacred, social media worlds blend
When they walk in the doors of the sprawling, red-brick Hope Community Church in Raleigh, no one takes a bulletin. Instead, they whip out their smartphones, tap the silver “Get Hope” app and open... Read More
Optimistic on teacher pay
Churchill once said, “I am an optimist. It does not seem much use to be anything else.” I think of that quote often, when asked about how I feel about what is happening in our state capital, and... Read More
McCrory chides Senate leaders
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory stood by his threatened veto of a Senate budget bill during a Charlotte radio interview Monday and compared GOP Senate leaders to past Democratic leaders Marc Basnight and... Read More
Poets piqued over way Gov. McCrory chose NC laureate
Gov. Pat McCrory’s failure to follow protocol in selecting the new poet laureate of North Carolina has thrown the typically peace-loving literary community into a furor of what some might call epic... Read More
Another step closer to justice
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 13, 2014. Orlando Hudson, chief resident Superior Court judge in Durham, believes that the conviction of Darryl Anthony Howard 19 years ago for two murders and... Read More
N.C. Voter laws should be blocked
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 12, 2014. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder said last week that he will take time to consider the arguments offered about changes to the state’s voter... Read More
