Highway funding: It's time to brainstorm
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, April 5, 2014. These are not happy days on the state transportation front. Drooping tax revenues, higher construction costs and congressional dysfunction are... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Jimmy Green, Patrick Cannon and the N.C. hustle
There is an obvious art to dealing with an FBI agent sting operation if you are a public official. Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green, a shrewd ol’ country boy, could obviously smell it out better than Charlotte... Read More
NC Voter fraud! (Or maybe not.)
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, April 5, 2014. Here come the told-you-so’s. Here come Republicans justifying a bad N.C. voter ID law by pointing to a new report that shows hundreds of cases of... Read More
In NC Senate race there's plenty of money, but whose money
Outside groups have spent more than $15 million on political advertising – most of it negative – on both sides of North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, more money than in any other state. Who is... Read More
Be careful what you wish for
A year ago when my health insurance went up I grumbled and blamed Blue Cross. Then, this year, my new bill arrived and the premium went up again even more. But this time I didn’t blame Blue Cross. I... Read More
Obamacare: A new ballgame
Just as ObamaCare divides the nation politically, it divides Democrats strategically. Does it spell disaster in November, or can we score points with it? The President took the ball to the basket... Read More
More questions about ethics and economic development nonprofit
There are still many questions about Governor Pat McCrory’s plan to turn over the state’s economic development efforts to a private nonprofit, a strategy that has caused numerous problems in other... Read More
Too much voting
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 4, 2014. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people voted in North Carolina and another state in 2012. Or maybe they didn’t. Wednesday’s report by State... Read More
Business owners more optimistic
North Carolina business owners are more optimistic about their company’s prospects and are more likely to hire new employees than they were six months ago, according to a new survey from PNC... Read More
Unemployment rate masks 250,000 "missing workers"
North Carolina’s official unemployment rate only tells half of the story, according to a new report released today that finds a quarter-million working age North Carolinians are neither employed... Read More
