The State Board of Education approved new standards Thursday for state exams that will lower required passing scores, potentially saving thousands of third-graders from having to go to summer reading... Read More
Duke Energy must take "immediate action" to stop toxins leaking from coal ash ponds at its North Carolina power plants and develop a plan to clean up contaminated groundwater at the sites, a Superior... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, March 5, 2014. There is seemingly no end to the revelations coming from the state's designated environmental watchdog in the aftermath of an enormous spill that has... Read More
In North Carolina political circles, it is no secret that one of the largest employee groups in the state is coming after State Treasurer Janet Cowell. The State Employees Association of North... Read More
If North Carolina Democrats were to gain some legislative seats this year, state and national pundits would probably spill gobs of ink — or at least fill gobs of pixels — with elaborate... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, March 5, 2014. It’s enough to make you want to reboot state government – literally. Employees in North Carolina government departments have faced an avalanche of... Read More
Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some... Read More
Warding off the specter of election-year health insurance cancellations, the Obama administration Wednesday announced a two-year extension for individual policies that don't meet requirements of the... Read More
by Governor James G. Martin, published in Greensboro News-Record, March 2, 2014. A few weeks ago in this space, my friend Henry Isaacson and I wrote about how big ideas have attractive merit. It was... Read More
When every politician in Washington sounds like a robot reciting a predictable party line, Rand Paul sounds like a man who actually thinks. Sometimes he sounds sounds nutty and sometimes he makes... Read More
