A judge blocked the transfer of control of Charlotte Douglas International Airport to an independent commission on Thursday, pending a decision from the Federal Aviation Administration about the... Read More
North Carolina is taking a lot of flak these days from those who live far away, the New York Times editorial board only one recent example. We're being painted as a state in hopeless peril for all of... Read More
There are many people talking about how America is changing and not for the better. They cite how we need to return to the Founding Fathers view of government. Further they lament over a loss of... Read More
As Donna Martinez reported shortly after the sales tax holiday went into effect in 2003, it was all a gimmick. A “shiny object” to distract North Carolina taxpayers from the real fact – a big... Read More
As students prepare to flock to our state’s colleges and universities this month for the fall semester, here’s a statistic worth noting: Just 27 percent of adults in North Carolina hold a bachelor... Read More
Does the following description of a political situation at the beginning of July apply to Egypt or North Carolina? **Just a year after winning a decisive election victory and taking power from an... Read More
Editorial by Travis Fain, Greensboro News and Record, August 1, 2013. Gov. Pat McCrory told an N.C. Chamber gathering this morning that the $7.8 billion in the budget for K-12 schools this year is the... Read More
Source: Talking About Politics Translation: To be backwards rather than to seem backwards Read More
From the epic poem to Dadaism, political turmoil has inspired new artistic genre. The Republican un-Reconstruction in North Carolina has made its own contribution, the obituary for “our formerly... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, August 2, 2013 Hey North Carolina, turns out you have an education governor after all. That’s what Pat McCrory told a state chamber of commerce conference in Chapel... Read More
