Shooting the Reasonable Fellow
Colon Willoughby, the District Attorney, is catching it from all sides. Faced with the chore of prosecuting hundreds of ‘Moral Monday’ demonstrators, Willoughby suggested to the protestors they... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Can Tillis Duplicate Holshouser's Singular Victory?
One Republican U.S. Senate candidate has a special additional reason to be grateful for Holshouser's example. As Thom Tillis, speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, seeks to leverage... Read More
Redistricting Ruling No Surprise
No one should have been surprised that three Superior Court Judges upheld the congressional and legislative districts drawn in 2011. The unanimous ruling stated that the NAACP, a former legislator and... Read More
Bad process, bad bill
Editorial in the Durham Herald-Sun, Thursday, July 4, 2013 One state government leader, reflecting on the State Senate’s surprise attack on abortion rights this week, summed it up perfectly in our... Read More
McCrory wanted to rebrand NC; the legislature is doing it for him
North Carolina’s national brand may be changing – but not the way Gov. Pat McCrory intended when he talked during his campaign about the Tar Heel state undergoing an image makeover. “North... Read More
To Build a Better Brand for Business
Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and political commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing new Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature... Read More
The Real Progressives in Raleigh
In Raleigh, the conservatives are confidently progressive and the progressives are desperately conservative. The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch, and... Read More
Senate leaders unveiled their latest version of a massive tax cut for the wealthy Monday, the same day federal emergency unemployment benefits were cut off to 70,000 laid off workers simply because... Read More
So what’s the problem with Common Core?
by Becki Gray So what’s the problem with Common Core? Well, we don’t know. Don’t know how it will work, don’t know how well it will work and don’t know how much it will cost. The State... Read More
Access to power sale this weekend
Legislative leaders and officials from the McCrory Administration are huddled in the backrooms of the Legislative Building these days working out the final details of a package of massive tax breaks... Read More
