by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, February 2, 2018. The new federal income tax law is chock full of changes, alterations and adjustments that are keeping taxpayers, accountants and... Read More
Is $35,000 good money for first year teachers? That’s the question State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson inadvertently set off earlier this week with his comment that a... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, January 28, 2018. Extreme partisan redistricting creates gridlock. Or not. Here in North Carolina, one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation, Republican... Read More
Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, reprinted in The Wilson Daily Times, January 25, 2018. This looks like one of the worst kinds of legislative give-and-take: Give state funding to a family... Read More
On Jan. 13, thousands of pro-life North Carolinians rallied in Raleigh to express their opposition to abortion. A week later, thousands rallied in Raleigh and other North Carolina cities to protest... Read More
N.C. Public Safety Secretary Erik Hooks met a chilly reception Jan. 25 while briefing legislators on the results of a top-to-bottom prisons review. Hooks, who took office at the Department of Public... Read More
As I’ve said before, the North Carolina Republicans embraced Trumpism before there was Trump. They’ve taken a populist, authoritarian approach to governing, playing to an angry base while limiting... Read More
If you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em. It has been the default setting of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and his liberal allies even before the governor took office 14 months ago. Any time the Republican... Read More
As it stands now, anyone otherwise qualified to run for judge in North Carolina can walk into a county elections office this June, change his or her party registration to Republican or Democrat that... Read More
The Joint Legislative Committee on Judicial Redistricting and Reform met for the second time yesterday. For a large part of the meeting, they heard Administrative Office of the Courts’ reports on... Read More
