Two friends of mine had joint-replacement surgeries this year. One is a 60-year-old retired Canadian who had a hip replaced. The other is a 61-year-old American who had to stop working because of her... Read More
Starting as soon as next school year, zeros may be banned as grades from Wake County schools, and students could be guaranteed the right to hand in late work for credit and retake exams to get higher... Read More
Op ed by Troy Williams, published in Fayetteville Observer, October 27, 2013. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, largely due to misguided drug laws. In the... Read More
The economic recovery from the Great Recession is painfully sluggish — and it’s not all Barack Obama’s fault. Nor can the fault be laid solely at the feet of George W. Bush, or North Carolina... Read More
by Mark Binker, WRAL, October 29, 2013. Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit group – or more correctly, a pair of nonprofit groups – that has become a familiar player on North Carolina's... Read More
from The Conference Board, October 29, 2013. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had declined moderately in September, decreased sharply in October. The Index now stands at... Read More
Governor Pat McCrory and other supporters of the sweeping voter suppression law passed by the General Assembly this summer are working hard to make sure people don’t really understand how regressive... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 29, 2013. North Carolina’s judicial branch will decide if the legislature acted legally when it ended job protections for public school teachers and... Read More
An unorthodox coalition of conservative leaders – pastors, tech moguls, tea party farmers and the sheriff from Fresno County, Calif. – converged Tuesday on Washington to make the conservative case... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, October 28, 2013. If a poker buddy stacked the cards to win the game, you'd call him out for cheating. In North Carolina, though, it's just how the game is played... Read More
