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
NC Spin Articles
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
NC must struggle for decency on five fronts
by Gene Nichol, published in News and Observer, March 23, 2014. Electoral season is on the horizon. Our two parties gird for battle. The Republicans seek to enhance and secure a dramatic... Read More
Taking the 'local' out of local control
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 22, 2014. First, there was a law telling N.C. cities and towns they no longer had control over billboards in their jurisdictions. Then there were the laws... Read More
Living together doesn't lead to divorce
If you lived together before marriage, you might not be on a fast track to divorce after all. A UNC Greensboro professor has found that there is little difference in divorce rates between couples who... Read More
