There was a heck of a lot of bad public policy news in North Carolina in 2013. The disastrous decisions regarding Medicaid, unemployment insurance, school vouchers, reproductive rights, taxes, the... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, January 2, 2014. There are ailments that doctors can’t cure. Instead their best therapy is to control the illness, keeping it from getting worse. North Carolina... Read More
Some public television viewers will watch a new documentary from former LBJ public relations flak Bill Moyers. The Pope Foundation takes issue with Moyers’ latest spin-doctor efforts, as discussed... Read More
Published in Winston-Salem Journal, January 3, 2014. The State Board of Education must decide whether it will replace state-written standardized tests with national exams, a decision freighted with... Read More
While the Republican-controlled General Assembly, Gov. Pat McCrory and many across the state welcomed the news of the overall unemployment figures dropping sharply to 2009 levels, there are others who... Read More
The Republicans’ all-out effort to defeat U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat from Greensboro, is the biggest political battle looming in North Carolina in 2014, but a handful of other campaigns will... Read More
by Senator Kay Hagan, Published in Charlotte Observer, January 3, 2014. North Carolina is accustomed to standing out from the rest of the nation – for being the most military-friendly, for having... Read More
Groups unhappy with the North Carolina legislative and congressional districts drawn three years ago by the General Assembly have asked the state Supreme Court to delay this year’s primary elections... Read More
North Carolina has just run an experiment about what happens when unemployment benefits run out: Many jobless people go get jobs. The state's unemployment rate has fallen markedly, and this may be... Read More
by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group, published in News and Observer, January 2, 2014. First order of business for the returning Congress: The No Bailout for Insurance Companies Act... Read More
