Job Creation Rises in Carolina
Where are the jobs? Since Barack Obama took office in 2009 promising to end and reverse the effects of the Great Recession, Republican politicians and conservative critics have relentlessly pointed... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NC recovery difficult as urban-rural divide deepens
North Carolina’s economy was slammed by the Great Recession, with statewide unemployment passing 11 percent and more than 300,000 jobs being lost between 2007 and 2010. In the last three years, the... Read More
McCrory's Telling Moment Arrives
The big question about Governor Pat McCrory when he was elected in November was which McCrory voters had sent to Raleigh, the moderately conservative former mayor of Charlotte who supported mass... Read More
A Gift to Democrats
Nine times out of 10 in politics, what you think is a conspiracy is just incompetence. So it is with the Republicans and abortion. Several TAP readers believe that all the GOP’s thrashing on... Read More
Turning Point
Those who watch, report, lobby the NC General Assembly know that there are a multitude of procedural maneuvers used to move controversial bills through the process. Those moves usually hit near the... Read More
Sharia Law – Really?
The past few nights I have slept a lot better knowing that the General Assembly is taking time to address the Sharia Law issue in North Carolina. Thank the Lord for that. Isn’t it evident that... Read More
Money Monday, Not Moral Monday
Liberal protesters at the General Assembly have been claiming they are acting in the name of morality, but a new Civitas study shows the role played by money – more than $100 million in state funds... Read More
Careful About Legitimacy Claims
Is the state government of North Carolina illegitimate? Based on the volume of emails and Facebook messages I’ve received lately, liberal politicians and organizations are shopping the idea that the... Read More
The Decline of North Carolina
New York Times editorial, July 9, 2013. Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the State Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican... Read More
Where Do You Stand, Pat?
Governor McCrory’s waffling on the abortion bill recalls the old mountaineer who listened to a slick politician give a long-winded, on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand answer to a tough issue... Read More
