Nearly a month into the 2013-14 fiscal year, Gov. Pat McCrory is set to sign the state budget into law today. The budget spends a total of $20.6 billion, up about 2.5 percent from last year’s... Read More
As the session neared its end last week with a House vote on the budget, Speaker Thom Tillis left his post and took a place among the representatives. Normally, the speaker doesn’t debate, but this... Read More
And so it begins.??After a weekend of online chatter, media spin, and political fulminations, there can be no doubt that the end of the 2013 legislative session was, in truth, the start of the... Read More
A few weeks ago I wrote in the New York Times that North Carolinians were so distracted by legislation they had no time to focus on what may be coming in a state budget. Our state struggles with the... Read More
Editorial by National Review, July 26, 2013. Democrats are terribly upset with Republicans in North Carolina: Having won the state house, the state senate, and the governorship, along with nine of... Read More
In Mooresville, North Carolina, school may be out for summer, but the halls are not quiet. President Obama’s visit to Mooresville last month highlighted Mooresville Graded School District’s... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, July 22, 2013. The U.S. economy appeared to be doing well. A few months ago, it seemed that perhaps a true economic recovery was coming in 2013 or 2014. Then it... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, July 27, 2013. Up on Jones Street in Raleigh, our legislators have turned out the lights, shut the door and gone home until the short session begins next May... Read More
Editorial from Durham Herald-Sun, July 26, 2013. As midnight neared in the General Assembly Thursday, representative after representative stood to speak his or her piece against the sweeping election... Read More
A few weeks ago, I snapped a picture at one of those Moral Monday protests in Raleigh that encapsulated a lot of what I was feeling about the N.C. legislature. A young woman with her dog in tow held a... Read More
