DACA, Senator Tillis, and the Dreamers
by Brooke Medina, Civitas Institute, September 6, 2017. DACA was a temporary, constitutionally-questionable response to an extremely sensitive issue The best place to create a resolution to the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Amazon's HQ2 is tailor-made for RTP
A match made in Heaven? Amazon HQ2 and RTP. Think about it. A review of Amazon's "key preferences and decision drivers" for a new, second headquarters worth $5 billion or more and coming with... Read More
The middle class is not an accident (or inevitable)
Labor Day report offers a powerful reminder for NC workers – especially Millenials A few years back, there was a witty and briefly popular bumper sticker that conveyed several important and... Read More
Legislature has misused lottery funding
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, Published by Burlington Times-News, September 7, 2017. If we want to know why North Carolina schools haven’t improved anywhere near as much as we need them to, we... Read More
Our state steps us, finally, for clean water
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 7, 2017. It’s been a while since we’ve seen North Carolina environmental regulators do what they should do: Crack down on water pollution. But that... Read More
New districts need to be thrown out
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 2, 2017. When Republican state legislators once again are called to account for their gerrymandered districts, their best defense will be, “We’ve... Read More
Governor Cooper declares state of emergency ahead of Irma
Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency for all 100 counties in the state in preparation of “almost certain impacts from Hurricane Irma early next week.” The latest forecasts show Hurricane... Read More
Ideology rules today's partisanship
by Paul O'Connor, Insider News Service, published in The Wilson Daily Times, September 6, 2017. During the July news doldrums, a young reporter asked how state politics have changed since I arrived in... Read More
Unaffiliated voters hold the key
About 30 percent of North Carolina’s 6.8 million registered voters are Republicans. So how in the world do Republicans ever win election in the Tar Heel State? Be careful how you answer that... Read More
Are humanities still useful in a tech world?
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, September 1, 2017. My wife is part of a shrinking group of people. She is low-tech! Yes, she has a smart phone and a tablet – complements of me... Read More
