Former Commerce secretary Keith Crisco has taken a big step toward running against U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers in the general election next year. He hasn’t made a formal announcement but on Monday filed... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, December 19, 2013. tate Auditor Beth Wood is right to raise a red flag after her audit of Medicaid claims found a senior program manager at the state Department of... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 14, 2013. North Carolina's ports are bustling again after suffering through the recession with three straight years of big losses. While the current fiscal... Read More
Editorial from The Greenville Daily Reflector, December 18, 2013. The North Carolina Association of Educators has helped sponsor two lawsuits against the state this past week challenging policies... Read More
by Ann Doss Helms, Charlotte Observer, December 19, 2013. Students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools outperformed counterparts in 20 urban districts on a rigorous national test of math and reading... Read More
North Carolina's public university system should increase its focus on efficiency as students and taxpayers alike grapple with the rising cost of higher education, a report Wednesday to state... Read More
Don’t underestimate the chances that people who think like Bob Rucho might control Congress a year from now. Behind Rucho’s tweet and the budget battle in Washington is a death match between... Read More
The recent filing of a lawsuit against the state’s new private school voucher scheme by the NCAE and the N.C. Justice Center on behalf of 25 plaintiffs received a flurry of media attention—and it... Read More
If the latest bad news hasn’t soured your assessment of the so-called Affordable Care Act, consider David Nather’s Politico article on the potential impact for small businesses. Think the... Read More
When will the criticism of Obamacare finally end? I’ve done some research on the question, and by my calculations, judging from current trends, this will happen approximately … never. I base this... Read More
