State dollars flow to private schools
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 9, 2018. State legislators are working to avert a looming funding crunch for local school systems, a key lawmaker said last week. School districts are... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Megasite remains a prime location
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 11, 2018. Not many people in North Carolina have more reason to be disappointed than Darrell Frye. He has ramrodded Randolph County’s effort to assemble... Read More
In schools, as in life, the rich get richer
Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, January 9, 2018 As lawmakers return to Raleigh today amid calls for better education funding, a new study reveals growing disparities in the way the state’s... Read More
Wasting public money
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, January 12, 2018. The GOP-led state legislature is running up quite a tab in court with taxpayers footing the bill. It has spent almost $7 million defending against... Read More
Tillis supports border wall, except when he doesn't
Editorial by The Charlotte Observer, reprinted in The Greenville Daily Reflector, January 10, 2018. Legislating is the art of finding bearable compromise — or at least it used to be before... Read More
How a Duke professor helped bring down NC's Congressional districts
Validation sometimes arrives quietly. Other times, it makes a splash, and for the chairman of Duke University’s math department, Tuesday’s validation was the splashy kind. Duke professor Jonathan... Read More
Possums and politics: An NC tradition ends
Possum out: Famous New Year’s event in Brasstown shockingly ends after one final descent” was the lead headline in last week’s Cherokee Scout, North Carolina’s westernmost newspaper. After... Read More
It's not priorities, it's coercion
The North Carolina legislature adjourned from their special session yesterday without addressing their latest unfunded mandate. The General Assembly passed a law requiring smaller class sizes but did... Read More
Can NC change district court elections without a constitutional amendment?
There’s a new rumor afoot about judicial reform that lawmakers may try to pass a judicial appointment system that only affects district court judges. The plan is apparently premised on the notion... Read More
