How markets can improve healthcare
David Goldhill, a media company CEO, offers an interesting take in the latest National Reviewon the topic of improving American health care. Goldhill recommends combining a national plan for... Read More
NC Spin Articles
‘Treasurer’s Eleven’ holds first meeting to review pension governance structure
by Jesse Burkhark, Triangle Business Journal, January 24, 2014. An 11-person commission appointed by North Carolina State Treasurer Janet Cowell to review the governance structure of the state... Read More
McCrory must persuade GOP leaders to raise teacher pay
Editorial by News and Observer, January 23, 2014. The question comes up now and then in the turbulent and troubled administration of Gov. Pat McCrory: What’s going on here? In the last legislative... Read More
Chancellor: UNC-CH academic oversight failed for years
Chancellor Carol Folt told University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trustees Thursday that the school failed its students by not providing adequate oversight of courses that have been at the center... Read More
Still too much leverage
Since the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, many American households and businesses have substantially reduced their indebtedness. That was a rational decision. A key cause of the boom that led to... Read More
Broughton teacher speaks of commitment
I never planned to be a teacher. I was headed for law school, for a real career. Teaching was something to “get out of my system.” I would teach a couple of years and then go get a real job. After... Read More
Parents best hope for schools
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, January 23, 2014. Two news stories this week each carry potential for helping public schools in Pitt County: A promise from Gov. Pat McCrory to win a pay... Read More
Too many Supreme Court decisions not about the law
Rarely in American history has the Supreme Court been called on to decide so many important social, legal and political issues in such a relatively brief period of time. This term, the court will hand... Read More
Barber defends "Dummy" remark
by Jim Morrill, Charlotte Observer, January 23, 2014. North Carolina NAACP President William Barber is standing by his characterization of the U.S. Senate’s only African-American Republican as a... Read More
UNC Board gets updates on student-athlete reading skills, data breach
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trustees heard Thursday about two controversies that have roiled the campus in recent weeks: the reading skills of student-athletes and the online... Read More
