Governor Pat McCrory didn’t offer many specifics during his campaign for governor but he was clear about a few things. Two of them were that he supported an overhaul of the state tax code that was... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
