Get ready for smaller districts
The average public-school district in the United States enrolls about 3,700 students, according to a recent Governing magazine analysis. In North Carolina, the average school district enrolls more... Read More
NC Spin Articles
5 takeaways from Governor Cooper's document dump over Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Gov. Roy Cooper’s office did coordinate with state environmental officials on the timing of a key water quality permit approval and a controversial $57.8 million deal with Dominion Energy over the... Read More
What to do about Silent Sam?
The saga of Silent Sam will continue into 2019. Last year ended with a modest truce. A group of faculty and teaching assistants pulled back a threat to withhold student grades if the Confederate... Read More
NCGOP lawyer says Cooper can't create interim elections board
In a letter sent Sunday to Gov. Roy Cooper’s office, the N.C. Republican Party said it won’t be “bullied” into adding members to an interim state elections board the party considers... Read More
It doesn't add up
Almost every politician in Washington supported the Criminal Justice Reform Bill – so what are the odds all those politicians, this time, got it right? According to the newspaper 53,000 prisoners... Read More
When words have no meaning
I must admit I made a mistake. Before Christmas, I praised NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse and party chair Robin Hayes for calling for a new election in the tainted 9thCongressional District... Read More
What happened to Virginia Dare?
What really happened to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in the New World? The same Virginia Dare whom I suggested recently belonged on “The World Almanac’s” list of famous... Read More
The economic outlook for the 1st quarter 2019
by Dr. Michael Walden, NC State University Professor of Economics, December 29, 2019. TEN NORTH CAROLINA ECONOMIC HEADLINES FOR 2018 AND 2019 The broadest measure of economic output in North Carolina... Read More
The giant policy elephant in the room at the start of 2019
Well, another new year is upon us and the public policy landscape is, in many ways, more crowded and contentious than ever. Everywhere one turns, there are large, important and hotly contested issues... Read More
Democratic govs get failing grades
Want yet more one signal that American politics has changed markedly in the past decade? Look no further than the annual report card issued by the Cato Institute to grade the fiscal performance of the... Read More
