Happy Birthday Virginia Dare
North Carolina’s most famous missing person just will not go away. One main reason is the work of Chatham County’s Marjorie Hudson, an award-winning writer and teacher of writing. Ten years after... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Progressives and Blacks
Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN’s Piers Morgan’s interview with the key witness in the George... Read More
The Republican gamble
Republicans are taking a huge gamble. After a legislative session that left their approval ratings in the tank and managed to alienate everybody but their own true believers, the GOP is attempting... Read More
When Education and Politics Collide
When educational statistics and state politics collide, the results can be cringe-inducing. A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of... Read More
State unemployment rate rises
from The Carolina Mercury, August 19, 2013. The state’s seasonally adjusted July unemployment rate was 8.9 percent, increasing 0.1 of a percentage point from June’s revised rate. The national rate... Read More
Berger not sounding like he's poised to challenge Hagan
Senate leader Phil Berger was not sounding like a many ready to jump into the race with Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan next year when he showed up on an Eastern North Carolina radio station last week. "I... Read More
A Major League Blunder
Governor McCrory increasingly looks like a modest Triple-A ballplayer who is befuddled by big league pitching. His latest whiff is defending the DHHS salary debacle. McCrory should have put as much... Read More
N.C. Teachers: Third prize is you're fired
I took a shot this morning at explaining the ins and outs of K-12 education funding, with a focus on teacher salaries. Bottom line: They're not so good. We've frozen the salary steps so long that they... Read More
Republicans should back a single-payer health-care system
My party, the Republican Party, has staked out amazingly naпve positions on two of the key domestic issues facing us: immigration and health reform. These issues are intertwined. Health Affairs, one... Read More
The voting rights foo-fa
This isn’t a story of sin begetting sin but of foolishness begetting foolishness. Years ago, somewhere, some Democratic political guru sat in a room with reams of demographics of people who never... Read More
