The silly season in NC politics
This is the silly season in politics and government. The legislature is not coming back until May, the campaign season is not yet in full bloom, and Gov. Pat McCrory is going across the state trying... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Phones in flight: unfriendly skies
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, December 10, 2013. Commercial airlines have been the last refuge from the ubiquity of cellphone chatter and text messages that just can’t wait. Call us Luddites... Read More
Public Education?
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 14, 2013. The strongest arguments against the state’s new school voucher program aren’t legal ones. The lawsuit filed this week by the president of... Read More
North Carolina's choice
It would be tough to find another state where the political terrain has shifted as dramatically as it has here — from kindling hopes of a Democratic revival in the South just a few years ago, to... Read More
Ashes and switches
Every child knows just before Christmas is the time to be ‘as good as you can be’ – so you might think after the mischief it’s been up to this year Congress would be rolling up its sleeves and... Read More
Single-sex classrooms: tried and true concept
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 11, 2013. Separating students by sex is gaining in popularity at one of Winston-Salem’s middle schools. Other schools should revive this tried-and-true... Read More
What North Carolinians think
After bottoming out in September, Pat McCrory's approval numbers continue to tick back up. 42% of voters approve of the job he's doing to 47% who disapprove, a big improvement from 35/53 three months... Read More
The telling reaction to the small federal budget deal
The various reactions to this week’s announcement of a small budget deal in Congress to avoid another shutdown of the federal government illustrate just how far how of whack the current budget and... Read More
Gift-giving in Raleigh
Oh, voter ID, oh, voter ID, how lovely are your 49 pages of branches. Oh, the song doesn’t go like that? And some people aren’t seeing all the loveliness? Well, it is easy to get confused hanging... Read More
A businessman responds to new NC-4 tax forms
We are nearing the gift-giving season, and as an employer, I got an early one from the N.C. Department of Revenue dealing with income-tax deduction. It says "IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED" in bright blue... Read More
