Medicaid in North Carolina
Before Obamacare, before individual mandates, before exchanges, there was Medicaid. Started in 1965 under President Johnson as part of his War on Poverty, Medicaid extended health insurance coverage... Read More
NC Spin Articles
At the zoo
Sometimes writing this blog is easy. Like today. Below is a reprint – in full, with no cuts or comments – of yesterday’s news release from the Governor’s Communications Office: Press Release... Read More
Armageddon on cable news channels
The politicians, when you get down to the short rows, are the varmints who decided to hang a ‘Not Open for Business’ sign on the federal government – but, in an odd way, it wasn’t the... Read More
Capital needs won't go away
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, October 1, 2013. One of Gov. Pat McCrory’s first priorities upon taking office in January focused on the state’s crumbling infrastructure. Perhaps some members... Read More
The wrong battlefield
Editorial by Durham Herald, October 1, 2013. In the Research Triangle Park, a lot of cubicles are empty for at least a day so, and if you were planning to visit museums or monuments in the nation’s... Read More
State increase in average SAT scores best taken with a grain of salt
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 1, 2013. North Carolina’s average SAT scores for the 2012-13 school year have been released and that means politicians will soon be using the news to make... Read More
A poor exchange
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 2, 2013. Last year, N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin was developing plans for the state to operate a health care exchange. That was before the... Read More
Shutdown shows we may not need so much government
The government shut down at midnight. I know this because I heard about it on the news. But I’ve gotten through nearly an entire workday and done everything that I normally do without noticing... Read More
Moral Monday protestors should pay for breaking the law
A good definition of a lawyer is a person who can pick a single grain of pepper from a salt shaker wearing boxing gloves. Such manual dexterity symbolizes the intellectual gymnastics that attorneys... Read More
Justice filed political lawsuit
by John Hood, Carolina Journal, October 2, 2013. What’s the Obama administration trying to do? No, I’m not speculating about the president’s strategies for implementing his health care law or... Read More
