Here’s how to raise NC teacher pay
As North Carolina enters 2014, I have a New Year’s resolution for our state. In the next four years, let’s raise the pay of our public school teachers to the national average. Not talk about it... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Gov. McCrory seeks reset in year two
It was a year ago today that Gov. Pat McCrory was sworn into office amid high hopes. Now he is hoping for a reset. Few governors took office with greater promise than McCrory. He had won office in a... Read More
12 stories that made 2013 even worse than it already appears in your rearview mirror
There was a heck of a lot of bad public policy news in North Carolina in 2013. The disastrous decisions regarding Medicaid, unemployment insurance, school vouchers, reproductive rights, taxes, the... Read More
Sweepstakes parlors aren't leaving, so heavily tax and regulate them
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, January 2, 2014. There are ailments that doctors can’t cure. Instead their best therapy is to control the illness, keeping it from getting worse. North Carolina... Read More
Pope Foundation responds to attack from Bill Moyers
Some public television viewers will watch a new documentary from former LBJ public relations flak Bill Moyers. The Pope Foundation takes issue with Moyers’ latest spin-doctor efforts, as discussed... Read More
Common Core backlash casts shadow on future testing
Published in Winston-Salem Journal, January 3, 2014. The State Board of Education must decide whether it will replace state-written standardized tests with national exams, a decision freighted with... Read More
Getting serious about job creation in NC
While the Republican-controlled General Assembly, Gov. Pat McCrory and many across the state welcomed the news of the overall unemployment figures dropping sharply to 2009 levels, there are others who... Read More
Candidates jockey for state's highest courts in 2014
The Republicans’ all-out effort to defeat U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat from Greensboro, is the biggest political battle looming in North Carolina in 2014, but a handful of other campaigns will... Read More
Restore long-term N.C. jobless benefits
by Senator Kay Hagan, Published in Charlotte Observer, January 3, 2014. North Carolina is accustomed to standing out from the rest of the nation – for being the most military-friendly, for having... Read More
Groups seek delays of election primaries
Groups unhappy with the North Carolina legislative and congressional districts drawn three years ago by the General Assembly have asked the state Supreme Court to delay this year’s primary elections... Read More
