Contaminated facts
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 12, 2016. Drink at your own risk? A steady drip of accusations and counter accusations became a tainted overflow Wednesday when the state epidemiologist... Read More
NC Spin Articles
McCrory continues criticism of coal ash scientist contamination warnings
Gov. Pat McCrory for the first time Thursday personally addressed allegations by two state scientists who have said administration officials provided a "false narrative" to the public over how top... Read More
Racially tainted legislative districts must be redrawn
Lawmakers unconstitutionally used race when they drew legislative boundaries for state House and state Senate members in 2011, a panel of three federal district court judges ruled Thursday afternoon... Read More
2017 Policies should continue to focus on growth
The 2016 N.C. legislative session was short, but full of significant action: limiting the growth of government, cutting taxes, paying down debt, building savings, raising teacher pay by almost... Read More
State is hurting itself for no reason
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, August 7, 2016. A few tweaks were made to HB2, but the law remains mainly intact. We believe the legislature should repeal it in its entirety and start over. With... Read More
Donald Trump is right: People could vote 10 times
Presidential candidate Donald Trump in a FOX News interview said, “People are going to walk in and vote ten times maybe — who knows?” Trump couldn’t be more right. Without safeguards in our... Read More
A review of the Democratic, Republican conventions
Modern-day nominating conventions have become nothing more than ‘infomercials’ for both political parties, and this year's Democratic and Republican national party conventions were indeed that... Read More
Staying on a dangerous message
You’ve got to give the leaders of the North Carolina legislature credit. They’re staying on message, even if that message is damaging to our country and our democracy. Donald Trump has been... Read More
Is rigged election coming? Republicans should prove it or pipe down
When the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals torpedoed North Carolina’s controversial voter ID law last month, House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger issued a remarkably bitter... Read More
Jobless rate misses full story
Is the full picture of our labor market captured in the official unemployment rate? The answer to that question is no — but that doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy afoot. In Washington... Read More
