Teacher pay hike unlikely
A month before the legislative session reconvenes, the likelihood that all North Carolina teachers will see a pay raise this year appears to be fading. Republican leaders are pushing a plan to... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Cheney's revenge in NC's 3rd Congressional District?
Could this be former Vice President Dick Cheney’s revenge for U.S. Rep. Walter Jones suggesting that he should rot in hell for his role in the Iraq War? Jones, the 3rd District Republican, outraged... Read More
Debate on tuition help
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors, the 34-member body that helps set policy for all UNC system campuses, is not a big fan of using a slice of tuition paid by some students to... Read More
Accountable Care Organizations force taxpayers to pay cost overruns
Accountable care organizations that are the cornerstone of the state’s Medicaid reform plan are “HMOs on steroids,” one national expert says, and they face certain opposition in the state Senate... Read More
Choice program deserves defense
Liberal activists may fume, and left-wing editorialists may grind their teeth, but legislative leaders are going to defend energetically their 2013 opportunity scholarship bill against lawsuits by... Read More
Son of Speaker Ban
Will no one rid me of this troublesome professor?” (Paraphrasing King Henry II on Thomas Becket.) Fifty years ago, the legislature brought shame on North Carolina, dishonor on themselves and harm... Read More
Will there be an 'April surprise?'
Editorial by Winst0n-Salem Journal, April 14, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory, legislative budget writers and the state Revenue department have a plea for taxpayers preparing their 2013 tax returns today... Read More
GOP legislators are not conservatives. They are reckless
Editorial by News and Observer, April 14, 2014. It really is time to stop calling those who run the N.C. General Assembly conservatives. They are not conservative. They are reckless. There’s a long... Read More
Barber is protesting Republican overreach
by Lisa Rab, Mother Jones, April 14, 2014. On a recent Sunday afternoon, the Reverend William Barber II reclined uncomfortably in a chair in his office, sipping bottled water as he recovered from... Read More
Tax Day pressures
Tax experts will tell anyone who listens that one of the biggest problems that accompanies any major rewrite of tax law is predicting how people will comply with the changes. Some portion of taxpayers... Read More
