Surveying the damage
It is likely to take a while to figure out everything that happened in the last few days at the General Assembly. Legislative leaders spent the last 48 hours literally making up new bills out of whole... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Correction: Funding Public Education
Note: When our editors submitted this column from former House Speaker Joe Mavretic we incorrectly stated the formula he intended to be used. This is a correction of the previous posting. Joe's intent... Read More
Armed ‘volunteers,' pistol-packing bar patrons get OK from Honorables
Editorial, Wilmington Star News, July 25, 2013. More guns do not automatically make us safer, especially when those guns are permitted in public where people have been known to have impaired judgment... Read More
Letter to the NC General Assembly: I Can No Longer Afford to Teach
By Lindsay Kosmala Furst, in Making Our Way blog, July 25, 2013. Dear members of the North Carolina General Assembly, The language in this letter is blunt because the facts are not pretty. Teaching... Read More
Whistling Past Absentee Voter Fraud
RALEIGH -- Not long before he left the position, former state Elections Director Gary Bartlett warned that one consequence of a voter ID requirement in North Carolina would be a shift toward more... Read More
Nonprofits slimming down, some closing, due to state budget cuts
Durham Herald-Sun, July 25, 2013. The Durham-based N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development already started adjusting programs and staff in reaction to expected state budget cuts, the nonprofit... Read More
Photo Voter ID: What Do Liberals Know that We Don’t?
The Democrat complaint list goes on and on against photo voter ID in North Carolina: voter suppression, new Jim Crow laws, onerous requirements for college students to cast ballots, etc. Liberals and... Read More
Did North Carolina’s budget make Cuts to Education?
This is a simple question with a simple answer – NO. In government, private corporations, not-for-profits, or even in your own home, comparing a budget usually operates on a yearly basis. You... Read More
North Carolina's earliest fort discovered
Before the Lost Colony at Roanoke Island, before the Jamestown settlement in Virginia, there was Fort San Juan in the North Carolina foothills. Archaeologists studying a ceremonial mound from a Native... Read More
Funding Public Education
About one-half of our counties' budgets and at least half of our state's general fund budget is appropriated for education in public schools, community colleges and universities. The purpose of these... Read More
