State must fix food stamp problem
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, January 27, 2014. The federal government is losing its patience with North Carolina’s administration of the food stamp program, and so should North Carolina’s... Read More
NC Spin Articles
McCrory is right; don't appeal abortion ruling
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 28, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory has it right. North Carolina should not appeal a federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s requirement that women seeking... Read More
Republican legislator blasts Governor and House members for puppy mill bill
by John Frank, published in Charlotte Observer, January 28, 2014. A leading Republican state senator accused Gov. Pat McCrory of a “flagrant violation of power” and used crude language to deride... Read More
Farm bill would cut food stamps 1 percent
A House plan to make major cuts to food stamps would be scaled back under a bipartisan agreement on a massive farm bill, a near end to a more than two-year fight that has threatened to hurt rural... Read More
Trying to peer behind the legislative curtain
Throughout the debate of a sweeping voter ID and elections law bill, Republican supporters said it was an attempt to restore public confidence in the election process. Democrats, at the state and... Read More
A sound ruling against NC's abortion ultrasound laws
Editorial by News and Observer, January 26, 2014. It was, from the beginning, all about right-wing ideology and not at all about women’s health, as proponents of the law designed to limit abortion... Read More
Rocky road ahead on teacher pay
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 26, 2014. Only days after Gov. Pat McCrory’s pledge to get N.C. teachers a needed pay increase, one Republican legislative leader was showing how difficult... Read More
It's going to get worse
Ever since the disastrous launch of the Obamacare insurance exchanges in October, supporters of the so-called Affordable Care Act have insisted that things were destined to get better. They said that... Read More
Improve education while increasing child poverty - an impossible NC strategy
by Gene Nichol, UNC Professor of Law, published in News and Observer, January 25, 2014. The troubling correlation between education and poverty places North Carolina reform efforts in odd posture. For... Read More
Have benefits cuts reduced unemployment? No
Debates about the economic policies adopted last year by Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly have generated more heat than light. Nowhere has the discussion gotten more confused than with the... Read More
