Stop the (textbook) presses
Stop the (textbook) presses! On their face, the numbers are frightening. During the last financial crisis, the state cut yearly funding for textbooks from $111 million to $2.5 million. While some of... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Americans hopeful for a better 2014
Large number of Americans see 2013 as anything but a banner year and aren't reluctant to wave goodbye on New Year's Eve, a new AP-Times Square poll says, reflecting anxiety stretching from the... Read More
New Year means bigger sales tax bite
While many North Carolinians might take home a little more of their paycheck next year, they will likely be spending more of it as well. Lawmakers passed a major tax reform package in July that lowers... Read More
When can a college slash tuition by almost one-half without losing revenue?
A higher education riddle: When can a college slash tuition by almost half, without losing revenues? Answer: When nobody much pays full tuition anyway. When Converse College, a tiny women’s college... Read More
2013: 10 for the courts
If 2013 is remembered as the year when a conservative supermajority rolled into Raleigh and turned North Carolina’s moderate reputation on its head, it must also be appreciated as a time when those... Read More
Taxing issues
I wonder how many of the middle-class Tea Party supporters realize that they have been had. The billionaires who are the guiding hands behind Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works are looking out... Read More
Dumb politicians
Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can’t be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let’s look at... Read More
State elections board: Rightly cracking down
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 25, 2013. The State Board of Elections rightly sent a strong message to their local counterparts at its late December meeting: You must assure that... Read More
Economist: NC Unemployment drop may be tied to benefits changes
North Carolina’s unemployment rate has fallen more than other states’ this year, and changes in the state’s unemployment system may be a contributor, Wells Fargo Securities economist Mark Vitner... Read More
Leading on energy
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 26, 2013. Energy is big business in the United States, but very little of it comes from our state. Gov. Pat McCrory and legislative leaders want to change... Read More
