Motherhood and writers
Carol Folt’s swift departure from the chancellorship of UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks ago and her just as swift hiring as the president of the University of Southern California got me thinking... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Debunking those Medicaid Expansion job claims
On the first day of the regular 2019 legislative session, Democrats introduced legislation to expand Medicaid in North Carolina. Among the justifications for expansion given at the press conference... Read More
Folwell, House GOP face off
by Kirk Kovach, NC Policy Watch, March 28m 2019. A few weeks ago I wrote about the simmering battle between the uber-conservative State Treasurer Dale Folwell and his Republican compatriots in the... Read More
Latest school testing proposals emblematic of failed public ed policies
There’s an old adage – often attributed to Albert Einstein and/or Mark Twain – that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... Read More
Lawmakers can reduce healthcare costs
Health care costs too much. Are we agreed? Great. Perhaps now we can discuss the more interesting question of what policymakers should do about the problem. There are dozens of different proposals to... Read More
Special elections won't be 2018 rerun
Democrats made substantial gains in the 2018 elections, both in the U.S. House and in state offices. They did so primarily by running against the incumbent president, as is usually true for midterm... Read More
Getting real about the minimum wage
A new and promising push to raise North Carolina’s minimum wage gets underway today. Lawmakers and advocates will convene a press conference at the General Assembly this morning to announce the... Read More
The war on educational freedom
North Carolinians like their charter schools. A January 2019 Civitas Poll found that 76 percent of respondents “somewhat” or “strongly” supported charter schools. Only 16 percent of... Read More
Sex gap in NC postsecondary education
Nationally, 46% of women aged 25-64 reported having an associate degree or higher in 2017 compared to 39% of men, a gap of seven percentage points. In North Carolina, this gap was even larger: 48% of... Read More
State continues to expand freedom
While election scandals, national issues, and candidate announcements for 2019 and 2020 races have dominated the political headlines, North Carolina is continuing to head in the direction of greater... Read More
