Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 18, 2018. The judges got it right: Give North Carolina’s Republican gerrymandering team another break and we’ll end up in the same mess we’ve been in... Read More
There is a slide inside the Durham Public Schools report on suspensions that I suppose is meant to reassure folks. Ninety-two percent of DPS students received no suspensions last school year, it says... Read More
In the wake of the Brown v. the Board of Education decision in 1954 that ruled segregated schools are unconstitutional, Southern states started looking for ways around the decision. In North Carolina... Read More
Hardly anyone likes politicians drawing districts to elect themselves but, to rip apart the Congressional Districts Republicans drew, Judge James Wynn spun a tale full of fictions. Judge Wynn... Read More
As focus turns to the state budget this spring, liberals will predictably claim that the state budget has been “slashed” or “cut to the bone” Reality, however, shows that the state budget has... Read More
Nothing is off the table when it comes to Republican judicial reform, and a former Wake County judge thinks court packing may still be an option. Donald Stephens has been using his newfound retirement... Read More
The state legislature’s one-day session on Jan. 10 turned out to be a failure and a waste of the roughly $42,000 it costs to send lawmakers to Raleigh for a special session. When legislators set the... Read More
Every decade, following the decennial Census, the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are allocated to the 50 states based on their population. After the 2000 Census, 12 House seats shifted... Read More
That we did not secure the new Toyota-Mazda facility and those 4,000 jobs was bad news. North Carolina put forth a strong, bipartisan effort to woo the company, and I commend the governor and our... Read More
by Matt Caulder, Capitol Connection, January 13, 2018. Following on the heels of the House unanimously passing a bill providing $2.3 million in GenX funding Senate leadership has indicated it has no... Read More
