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
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
Editorial in Greensboro News and Record, July 25, 2013. The legislative debate this week about sweeping changes to our voting system had an Alice-in-Wonderland quality. Every serious question posed by... Read More
Editorial in News and Observer, July 25, 2013. If lawmaking is really like sausage making, what’s happening in Raleigh this week deserves a raid by a political version of the USDA. Republicans in... Read More
The political stench coming from our own state has overwhelmed the one coming from the Commonwealth to our north. However, we should pay attention. There’s a cautionary tale playing out up there. A... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, July 24, 2013. There are a few unanswered questions about North Carolina's despicable eugenics program and who will be compensated for having been forcibly... Read More
Daniel Blustein, News and Observer, Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2013 The budget before the legislature this week would make significant changes to two commissions that adopt environmental regulations in North... Read More
Tom Edsall, a longtime political writer for the Washington Post, recently wrote an online column for the New York Times entitled, "Has the GOP Gone Off the Deep End?" The piece was no meandering... Read More
This week the Republicans in the state Senate have revealed a proposal to dramatically shorten the early voting period and eliminate the ability to register when early voting. If this legislation... Read More
North Carolina is proving itself to be the poster child for all that is wrong with modern American democracy and—with thanks to Moral Mondays—also highlighting all that may someday save it. Once a... Read More
