Let me tell you a war story - a true one. You can look it up. In the run-up to the Civil War, pro-slavery Southern lawmakers had worked themselves into such a frenzy that many said, and some actually... Read More
by Sharon Decker, NC Secretary of Commerce, published in News and Observer, October 11, 2013. I grew up in Gaston County in the shadows of the textile mills. Around the family dinner table our parents... Read More
In the nearly two decades since the last government shutdown, fierce partisanship, recurrent brinkmanship and routine dysfunction have been the national governing norm. For a full generation, the... Read More
A government shutdown’s turned out to be a peculiar sort of beast. First, before a shutdown, every politician – in both parties – declares the government shutting will be terrible. Awful... Read More
f it is true that the first step toward solving a problem is admitting that you have one, the scandals and mismanagement at the Department of Health and Human Services will not be ending any time soon... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 11, 2013. If Aldona Wos wants to hide what she’s doing at work from public view, she should quit her state job and go to work for a private company. Wos... Read More
Well, this is just great. Boehner is going to ask Republicans to raise the debt limit. Fantastic. This is the federal equivalent of using a new credit card to pay the bill for the existing credit... Read More
Politics can be a brutal, bruising enterprise. If you said that you found the current political climate in Raleigh and Washington to be frustrating, dispiriting, and often juvenile, I’d second that... Read More
So all the DHHS scandals are based on a report that was doctored to mislead legislators and taxpayers. The $87,000 salaries for young campaign aides, lucrative contracts for political allies... Read More
On thing is clear. Pat McCrory came to Raleigh with an agenda for Medicaid and he wasn’t about to let pesky facts get in his way. He never has. He found a partisan ideologue to run the Department of... Read More
