The Budget & Tax Center’s county-by-county economic snapshots provide a quick-reference resource for journalists, local officials, service providers and citizens in all 100 counties throughout the... Read More
The way things are going, Pat McCrory will have to change North Carolina’s new branding slogan from “Nothing Compares” to “Nobody Comes to NC.” While the Governor and his media minions are... Read More
In 1992, Colorado adopted a statewide solution to what it viewed as a local problem: Cities, towns and counties were amending their discrimination ordinances to protect homosexuals and other LGBT... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 31, 2016. North Carolina is a state where most of its parts are below average. A couple of recent reports dramatically illustrate our uneven circumstances... Read More
The fate of North Carolina's new law aimed at restricting restroom use by transgender people could be determined in Virginia, where a school board has ordered a teenager to stay out of the boys' room... Read More
Several corporations have come out this week publicly blasting North Carolina’s passage of HB 2 – decrying the “discrimination” and how the bill goes against their “fundamental belief in... Read More
Governor Pat McCrory this week defended the sweeping anti-LBGT law he signed last week by blaming the media for biased reporting and calling the growing opposition to the discriminatory legislation... Read More
Last week’s special legislative session was about bathrooms and safety and gay and lesbian and transgender rights. But in the big picture, it was about power. And right now, N.C. General Assembly... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory found himself on the defensive for another day Tuesday after Attorney General Roy Cooper said his office would not defend the state's new anti-discrimination law against court... Read More
