Basnight continues to serve
Former state senate leader Marc Basnight’s restaurant near Manteo evokes two of my favorite things: politics and people coming together for good food. Working on a follow-up to my book, “North... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Is there a solution for the generational clash?
by Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, May 11, 2018. In several states, teachers are protesting for higher salaries and more support for education, and those protests have come to North Carolina... Read More
Access to quality, affordable health care a matter of life and death
North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation in access to health care. When you consider we have great access in some parts of the state — those close to metropolitan areas and teaching hospitals in... Read More
Housing choices reflect political divide
There is a familiar kind of political argument that goes something like this: “I know we are politically divided. I think that partisanship has its place — but surely there is no need to make... Read More
Who's got the biggest house?
Here is a newspaper headline from last week: “A 'palace' in NC: One of the state's largest homes is for sale.” Must be the Biltmore House in Asheville, I thought. Then I kept reading. No, the... Read More
2018-19 budget off to a good start
For the first time in recent memory, the General Assembly is well underway in putting together the state budget before session has even started. For fiscal conservatives, anyone interested in sound... Read More
Access to high quality, affordable health care
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
The Truth Hurts
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
Should we pay Amazon to come to North Carolina?
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
Cooper retains some McCrory policies
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
