Seven years and almost $7 trillion in new debt ago, we released a bipartisan package of tax and spending reforms as co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. At the... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 28, 2017. It should not be surprising that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has temporarily taken over daily operations of Cardinal... Read More
While people across the country are closely following the pending GOP tax reform scheme, the sexual harassment and assault allegations and whatever the president is tweeting, they aren’t following... Read More
Testing is expected as part of education. Important questions remain unanswered concerning testing in NC public schools. NC policymakers need to re-evaluate the frequency, quantity and appropriateness... Read More
In the last few months the UNC Board of Governors has proposed a lot of controversial moves for the university system. One of the latest might be the most perplexing – even to members of the board... Read More
By every objective measure, we are underfunded and we are failing.” That’s how Larry Armstrong, longtime attorney for the Halifax County Board of Education, summed up the task before Gov. Roy... Read More
Stunned. North Carolina lost another monument. It came like a flash. And I am still reeling. Charlie Rose was one of North Carolina’s nationally best-known and most admired people. He was right up... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, November 28, 2017. This is how business works (the really short and oversimplified version): You add up all the costs of doing what you do — labor, utilities... Read More
You might have already forgotten about 2017’s most over-hyped political drama between the state legislature and Gov. Roy Cooper, but the lawsuit is still crawling its way through the court system... Read More
With 2017 coming to a close in the next month, North Carolina has received yet another recognition of its financial health, being named Forbes’ Best State for Business. North Carolina was the only... Read More
