Time for drug-law change
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
NC Spin Articles
It's Not Just Obama's Fault
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
Fact Check: AFP's "Just Exempt Me" ad attacking Hagan
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
Consumer Confidence Decreases Sharply in October
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
Spinning the voter suppression law
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
Hard-working teachers deserve job security
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
Business, conservatives push lawmakers on immigration
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
Politically motivated redistricting is bad for the voters and for democracy
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
The Democratic mind
Yesterday, a letter-to-the-editor in the News & Observerresponded to Rob Christensen’s column from last week, “A look inside the GOP mind.” The author asks what’s inside the Democratic mind... Read More
Even red states making Obamacare work
It’s becoming clear that the states that embraced the Affordable Care Act are having success, while those who didn’t, like N.C., are struggling. Here are two interesting examples of red states... Read More
