The day before reporter Sarah Ovaska at NC Policy Watch broke the news that two 24-year-old former campaign staffers for Governor Pat McCrory working at the Department of Health and Human Services... Read More
This Congress has been criticized for not passing many laws — and praised for that in some quarters. And it’s true that in quantitative terms its productivity has been low. A major case in point... Read More
Howard E. Covington Jr. dangles an intriguing historical footnote in his excellent new biography of Greensboro’s Henry Frye. (I’ll write about the book for a future Sunday Ideas section.) The... Read More
I was fortunate enough to be a community college president for 15 years under three governors. I can’t say how many times I heard how valuable we were to the economic well-being of our state. The... Read More
I happened to be at the luncheon yesterday at which John Skvarla, head of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, explained how his agency intends to help the state's economy while also... Read More
On last week's NC SPIN we reported that NC State Economist Mike Walden predicted that North Carolina's unemployment rate would drop from its current 8.8 percent (now 8.9) to 6.8 percent by 2015. Host... Read More
North Carolina’s most famous missing person just will not go away. One main reason is the work of Chatham County’s Marjorie Hudson, an award-winning writer and teacher of writing. Ten years after... Read More
Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN’s Piers Morgan’s interview with the key witness in the George... Read More
Republicans are taking a huge gamble. After a legislative session that left their approval ratings in the tank and managed to alienate everybody but their own true believers, the GOP is attempting... Read More
When educational statistics and state politics collide, the results can be cringe-inducing. A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of... Read More
