Budget builds on conservative success
North Carolina House and Senate leaders have just fashioned a compromise budget for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years. The deal includes sizable pay raises for school teachers and principals... Read More
NC Spin Articles
One positive action
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 23, 2017. The “Raise the Age” campaign took on a tough challenge and was remarkably effective. The new state budget transfers responsibility for most... Read More
State takes a good first step toward opioid addiction
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, June 21, 2017. We’re grateful that the General Assembly has taken significant steps to deal with this state’s pervasive opioid-abuse epidemic. It appears our... Read More
The only solution to gerrymandering
Editorial in The Wilson Daily Times, published in Greenville Daily Reflector, June 20, 2017/ Gov. Roy Cooper is trying to browbeat state lawmakers back to the drawing board in the wake of a U.S... Read More
Water quality in question
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, June 18, 2017. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... No, don’t cue the theme from “Jaws.” We’re talking about much smaller, quieter... Read More
Policies should encourage teenage voting
Editorial by Durham Herald Sun, June 22, 2017. Our youngest citizens are the group least likely to vote – and have been for years. Since voting is a pretty basic part of our civic obligations, it... Read More
Shifting the tax burden
The Republican who introduced a bill that allows municipalities to offer a .25ў sales tax exposes the folly of the GOP tax cuts over the last few years and the negative impact they’re having on... Read More
Midterm spread favors the Democrats
It would be very surprising if North Carolina Democrats didn’t make significant gains in the next election for General Assembly — whenever that may be. Normally, we’d be talking in the summer of... Read More
Common sense in government
For years Johnston County’s school superintendent accepted fringe benefits as a compliment to his salary then, just before he retired, he turned $94,000 in ‘fringe benefits’ into salary to... Read More
Is North Carolina the future of American politics?
On the last Thursday in March, the air horns returned to the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, N.C. There were about 75 of them, and they belonged to the Air Horn Orchestra, an ad hoc ensemble of... Read More
