Editorial, Wilmington Star-News, July 30, 2013. Most Americans want to believe that slavery no longer exists in this country, that it disappeared with the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation... Read More
Editorial, Fayetteville Observer, July 30, 2013. The General Assembly has left Gov. Pat McCrory a Gordian Knot of deregulation "reform" that he's not likely to untie before its effects begin to make... Read More
Editorial, Winston-Salem Journal, July 30, 2013. The state of mental-health care in North Carolina is dire. This should be a priority for our leaders, but unfortunately, it’s more likely to get... Read More
Maybe Kieran Shanahan quit because Governor McCrory still hadn’t learned his name. The Governor called him “Sharon” and “Karen” at a press conference. Whatever caused Shanahan’s abrupt and... Read More
Republican legislators in North Carolina have pushed through a proposal to revoke lifetime tenure for the state's public school teachers. Currently, all teachers are elligible for tenure after five... Read More
I’ve gotten angry at our Republican governor and legislature this year. The voting changes they’ve imposed, from injecting partisan politics into our school board elections to eliminating... Read More
Any first-year law student knows ignorantia juris non excusat: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. As such, all of us should know the provisions of the Voter Information Verification Act that has been... Read More
One might shrug off the sweeping voting restrictions approved last week in North Carolina as typical of a Southern state under Republican control. But look again: Unlike many of its neighbors, the Tar... Read More
This response was written by Jerry Williamson, after reading Tom Campbell's column, "The Forgotten Middle Class" in the Wilmington Star-News. First I want to thank you for this article which was... 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
