Invasion from our South
A TAPster who spent years working in economic development shares this: “The most astonishing news last week (other than the daily calamities at DHHS) was the invitation we received via email to... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Turning virtue on its head
Back when General Washington whipped King George the old saying ‘A penny saved is a penny earned’ was a bit of folk wisdom hardly a soul disagreed with – but these days modern economists have... Read More
Discrediting whistle blower hurts UNC
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, January 21, 2014. As allegations about no-show classes, poor reading test results and calculated efforts to keep athletes academically eligible to play ball continue... Read More
McCrory: DHHS Too Big To Succeed?
Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday outlined the goals for his second year in office, which include increasing teacher pay, fast-tracking fracking, and calling on the General Assembly to embrace his wife’s... Read More
Hunt got it wrong
If state leaders want to improve North Carolina’s education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state. Unfortunately, the... Read More
Feds proposed shift in poultry rules troubling
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 20, 2014. Warning horns should blast full force around the Obama administration approving a change in federal law to replace most federal inspectors on poultry... Read More
Tillis' 1984
Thom Tillis is walking the same tightrope that Jim Hunt walked in his U.S. Senate race 30 years ago. But Tillis’ balance is even more precarious. Tillis today, like Hunt then, has to appeal to... Read More
McCrory and Medicaid
Despite all the bumbling and fumbling in his state health agency, Gov. Pat McCrory and his embattled agency secretary, Aldona Wos, may finally be poised for a small policy and political victory. Or... Read More
Leadership crisis at DHHS a persistent liability
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 20, 2014. A group representing more than 12,500 medical professionals calls the system a "poorly tested, defective and very expensive software product." But... Read More
Challenge to execution protocol to be argued in Court of Appeals
The execution of an Ohio inmate last week sparked a new round of intense debate about what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” for prisoners sentenced to death. In the Ohio death chamber... Read More
