When the buildings start crumbling
Some years ago, then-House Speaker Jim Black pushed an idea akin to so-called mortgage bullet payments to pay for new state buildings. The state would have paid very little on the construction for... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The American economic system
Guest commentary from Mike Armstrong, February 17, 2014. One common trap that a lot of us fall into is rising to defend the current American economic system ... As if it were a free market economy. it... Read More
Political climate change?
It’s been several months since the North Carolina General Assembly adjourned the 2013 long session last July and there’s no mistaking the altered vibe that now pervades the state capital. When... Read More
Why does North Carolina unemployment remain so high?
by Mike Walden, NCSU professor of Economics, published in WRAL Techwire, February 17, 2014. here’s good news and bad news about the North Carolina job market. The good news is that more jobs have... Read More
McCrory's big week
Last week summed up the obstacles and opportunities that Governor McCrory faces as he governs in a purple state where politics is played for keeps. And he saw how hard it is, even for a Governor, to... Read More
Pandora's box
It’s got to be a temptation – but it may not have a happy ending. Lately, President Obama’s taken to running the country by Executive Order – for instance, the other day he found a part... Read More
GOP Senate nod still up for grabs
PPP's monthly look at the North Carolina Senate race finds Thom Tillis continuing to have difficulty breaking away from the pack in a way that would let him avoid a runoff in the Republican Senate... Read More
Constitution likely to sink voucher plan
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, February 18, 2014. It's no surprise that a Superior Court judge in Raleigh refused Monday to dismiss a lawsuit against the state's new school-voucher program. The... Read More
Regulatory favoritism in North Carolina
Editorial by New York Times, February 16, 2014. North Carolina citizens have good reason to wonder just whom their environmental regulators are trying to protect. The state’s Department of... Read More
Hunger games
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, reprinted in Greenville Daily Reflector, February 16, 2014. North Carolinians who need food stamps are safe, for now. The Senate on Wednesday passed and sent to... Read More
