Editorial by Charlotte Observer, August 26, 2013. North Carolina is picking a fight with both the Republican and Democratic parties nationally, and the episode shines a light on how anachronistic our... Read More
Like many Charlotte-area small business owners, Doug Jones doesn’t know how to digest the N.C. General Assembly’s recent tax policy overhaul. Even before he and his wife, Sophie, opened Pour Olive... Read More
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Time, August 21, 2013. The administration of Gov. Pat McCrory should say “no deal” to a proposal that would allow the Catawba Indian Nation, a tribe based in Rock... Read More
When the July jobs report for North Carolina came out last week, showing an uptick in the unemployment rate, all the usual suspects said all the usual things. Republicans whose main focus is national... Read More
Last week, Governor McCrory’s office trumpeted the news that Sturm, Ruger & Company would be opening a new manufacturing facility in Rockingham County. While this may appear to be good news, the... Read More
The Cato Institute is out with an update to their 1995 study which purports to show that, in most states, welfare pays better than work. They add up benefits available through eight programs to a low... Read More
The mayor and a city councilwoman pledged Sunday to find a solution after police barred charitable groups from feeding the homeless in downtown Raleigh’s Moore Square during the weekend. In the last... Read More
Editorial by Ned Barnett, News and Observer, August 25, 2013. Pat McCrory ran for governor on the theme of broken government. Now many feel it wasn’t really broken until McCrory went about “fixing... Read More
Boosters of the Common Core national standards have acclaimed them as the most revolutionary advance in the history of American education. As a historian of American education, I do not agree. Forty... Read More
On May 31st, president Barack Obama strolled into the bright sunlight of the Rose Garden, covered from head to toe in the slime and ooze of the Benghazi and IRS scandals. In a Karl Rove-ian... Read More
