Connecticut legislators made headlines last year when they introduced a bill to tax revenue-generating college and university property. The bill was crafted to help New Haven, where Yale University is... Read More
The bottom has fallen out of the Republican Party.” So wrote Fort Worth’s Star-Telegram columnist Cynthia Allen last week. “Well,” she continued, “not the bottom exactly. More like the... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 3, 2017. The recent ugly act of hanging a paper noose in a school restroom was compounded by being recorded on a video that circulated on social media... Read More
During the 2016 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic politicians, progressive activists, and left-leaning media outlets excoriated Pat McCrory and other North Carolina Republicans for elevating divisive... Read More
The major American political parties are in crisis. The proportion of American voters who register as independents has reached 40 percent, rising about 10 percentage points since 2000. A few... Read More
A few months after taking office, Gov. Roy Cooper took the stage in a Research Triangle Park office building to announce a 1,200-job deal with Credit Suisse in exchange for $40 million in incentives... Read More
North Carolina residents generate almost 12 million tons of trash every year. As the state's population grows, concerns are also mounting in the Triangle over where to discard all of that garbage... Read More
Editorial by The Greensboro News-Record, October 25, 2017. Call it the Mikel Brady rule. Inmates “with convictions of a violent crime against a government official and/or law enforcement are... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, October 26, 2017. The director of the state prison system announced this week that he’s stepping down at the end of this month. David Guice has been chief deputy... Read More
Editorial by The Winston-Salem Journal, October 22, 2017. North Carolina made the national news again Thursday, but not because of our recovering economy, our beautiful and irreplaceable vistas or the... Read More
