Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 23, 2016. Leave it to a late-night TV host, Seth Meyers, to provide a perfect description of the abomination of leadership that has been North Carolina... Read More
As recent events have reminded us, North Carolina’s state government is not a precise analogue to the federal government. Its leadership is more diffuse. The state legislature is stronger, relative... Read More
by Mark Binker, WRAL, December 22, 2016. Shortly after the state Senate finished a day filled with rancor and mistrust by rejecting efforts to repeal House Bill 2, the controversial measure dealing... Read More
by Matthew Burns, WRAL.com, December 22, 2016. The state NAACP will ask the national leaders of the civil rights group next month for a nationwide economic boycott of North Carolina to protest the... Read More
The real barrier to repealing HB2 this week was trust. Efforts at some kind of compromise had been going on for months, starting in April and ongoing through the fall. But the 2016 elections got in... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 16, 2016. In the preamble of North Carolina’s Constitution, the authors listed the two reasons for its existence -- “the more certain security (of the... Read More
by Mike Walden, NC State Professor of Economics, December 9, 2017. I often begin my economic outlook presentations with the following joke: Professional economists are frequently called upon to make... Read More
Now that the dust has finally settled on North Carolina’s elections, some preliminary analyses can be conducted on the voting patterns in the state, which experienced a 2-to-1 split in the big three... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Salisbury Post, December 15, 2016. North Carolina’s most popular politician reappeared last week, almost four years after disappearing from... Read More
The line is easy to miss. On Page 2 of a highly technical 53-page document involving Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee plant, are four words: “new lined ash landfill.” Those four words, inserted in a... Read More
