Durham challenged to lose 140 tons
Most people don’t break into dance after a press conference, but more than 50 did Monday. They were practicing what they preached: Exercise is good. It was the kickoff to a city-county initiative... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Can the potty jokes
Spend $230,000 in taxpayers’ money fixing up the private bathrooms at the Executive Mansion? You could hear howls across the state when that news leaked. (Get it? “Leaked”?) OK, time out. No... Read More
A Doc speaks out on Obamacare
My patients are not signing up for the new Obamacare insurance at the New York State exchange. Not a single patient so far. A few have tried, but they haven’t managed to get past the bureaucracy and... Read More
State donations help food banks
Gov. Pat McCrory was in Charlotte this morning to announce that he was releasing $750,000 in state funds to the seven regional food banks that are part of the North Carolina Association of Feeding... Read More
Bowles calls for leaders to settle differences in TV ad
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson will be featured in a national TV ad campaign that pushes for an end to the impasse in Washington. The Campaign to Fix the Debt ad begins Tuesday, and in it Bowles and... Read More
NC's failure to expand Medicaid takes its toll
Editorial by News and Observer, October 14, 2013. How easy it was for Gov. McCrory and Republican leaders of the General Assembly to ignore the consequences of their decision to reject the federal... Read More
McCrory's stands strain his ties
My Charlotte friends who know Gov. Pat McCrory well say they’re starting to feel sorry for him. He’s the sort of guy, they claim, who knew instinctively he wanted to be governor. But that’s... Read More
Back to court on pre-k
The North Carolina Supreme Court has never ruled that the state constitution requires the delivery of early childhood services to all preschoolers, or even to all low-income preschoolers. I know that... Read More
Rand Paul says GOP's demise 'overstated'
Sen. Rand Paul suggested on Sunday the "demise" of the GOP is "overstated." Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" by host Candy Crowley about an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that showed only... Read More
Pre-K case reaches N.C. Supreme Court
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, October 12, 2013. Tight times don’t excuse violating the state Constitution. North Carolina’s Supreme Court can make that clear in a case it will hear Tuesday... Read More
