North Carolina ranks 44thin the nation in access to health care. That’s an average of access across the state. When you consider that we have great access in some parts of the state – those close... Read More
Sometimes the truth hurts. More precisely, the truth hurts when somebody calls you on what you have been purporting to be the truth. I imagine that the folks from the ultra-conservative Foundation for... Read More
by Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, May 3, 2018. The “final 4” is over; now it’s time for the “final 20.” What sport is this, you say? It’s for the “Amazon Cup” – the... Read More
If North Carolina Democrats hoped — and North Carolina Republicans feared — that a Roy Cooper administration would represent a clean break from the administration of former Gov. Pat McCrory, both... Read More
Want to know why conservatives are more skeptical than progressives of the idea of government confiscating more of our money to throw at social programs? I’ve already given you the answer in my... Read More
The United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized country but doesn’t get better results, as measured by average life expectancy. Have you heard this claim before? Did you... Read More
Politics have no place in our court system in North Carolina or any place else. Fairness deserves better than that, equality deserves better than that, and justice deserves better than that.” Fine... Read More
by D. G. Martin, One on One and host of NC Bookwatch on UNC-TV, April 15, 2018. Where is Erskine Bowles when we most need him? Bowles is best known to North Carolinians as president of the UNC System... Read More
Massachusetts has consistently been at or near the top of the list in reading and math achievement, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This is a fact. The policy... Read More
It seems the national media and general public seem transfixed on the bimbo problem facing the President and his personal attorney. Every day there is a new twist of the President’s relationship... Read More
