Editorial by Asheville Citizen Times, February 7, 2014. North Carolinians who need food stamps are safe, for now. The Senate on Wednesday passed and sent to President Obama a five-year, $1 trillion... Read More
Last July, North Carolina became the first state to exit the federal government’s extended-benefits program for unemployment insurance. Six months later, at the start of 2014, extended benefits... Read More
It is always a good idea that our politicians are a little fearful of the voters who are supposed to be their bosses after all. The most successful North Carolina politicians went to great lengths to... Read More
By Thomas McDonald, News and Observer, February 9, 2014. State NAACP President William J. Barber II laid out goals for a diverse coalition of groups Saturday afternoon at a rally attended by thousands... Read More
In the book “That Used To Be Us,” Thomas L. Friedman, a liberal columnist for the New York Times, and Michael Mandelbaum, a professor of American foreign policy at John Hopkins University, argue... Read More
When North Carolina moves its job recruiting and marketing functions to a new public-private partnership later this year, it will join just 12 other states with similar structures in place. And with... Read More
This blog comes from a long-time, active Chamber member. I approve this message: “There’s a political lesson for all of us in the needless maelstrom that has engulfed the Raleigh Chamber of... Read More
I am hurt,” says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. “A plague o' both your houses!” In popular remembrance, we... Read More
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services late Friday announced a $3 million sole source contract for a Washington, D.C.-area consulting firm to fix the problems in the state’s troubled... Read More
Despite falling unemployment rates, most of North Carolina’s metro areas are still waiting for meaningful job creation, according to new numbers released Wednesday by the Division of Employment... Read More
