Last year was a tumultuous one for public higher education in North Carolina. Here are five issues to watch carefully in 2018 as all signs point to the volume of the debate going nowhere but up... Read More
Maybe, instead of taking down monuments to our past, we should be building new ones. No, I am not suggesting that we fill the courthouse squares with more images of Confederate soldiers. However, I... Read More
by Matt Caulder, Capitol Connection, January 3, 2018. A recent American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) report named North Carolina’s retirement plans among the top four state-administered... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 31, 2017. If Bill Rabon didn’t get coal in his Christmas stocking, then Santa must not have been paying attention. The state senator from Southport has... Read More
Gov. Roy Cooper has finished his first year in office — a year full of the fireworks that are common in a divided state government. Cooper and Republican legislative leaders have sparred on TV, in... Read More
1 – Class-size chaos Local school districts prepare for “enormous disruptions” as Senate refuses to ease class size requirements School districts prepare for another year of class size... Read More
2017 – a year of fights. Because some things are worth fighting for and sometimes it’s just politics. General Assembly v. Governor Cooper: even before he was elected, the Democrat Governor... Read More
Does Gov. Roy Cooper believe that North Carolina’s tax burden should be $3 billion higher? It’s a fair question to ask given what Charlie Perusse, the governor’s budget director, said at a... Read More
It was a year that saw change at the top of state government, the inside of countless courtrooms and when GenX came to mean something other than people born from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 26, 2017. What’s in our water? Around here, we already know some worrisome answers to that question. Depending on where you live, it could be potentially... Read More
