Transparency will be a top focus for the UNC system’s administration in the coming year, President Margaret Spellings said Friday during her first official presentation before the Board of Governors... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory just got both good news and bad news about his prospects of defeating his likely Democratic challenger, Attorney General Roy Cooper, in the fall election. Let’s start with the bad... Read More
Top Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) officials presented preliminary plans for stabilizing the state’s Medicaid system to state leaders Tuesday, in line with legislation passed last... Read More
New Public Policy Polling surveys in Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, and North Carolina find that voter anger over their Republican Senators’ unwillingness to consider a replacement for Antonin Scalia on... Read More
Super Tuesday and Superdelegates are coming through big for Hillary Clinton. For that she owes a big thanks to 1980s Southern Democrats, including Jim Hunt and Terry Sanford. Both “supers” were... Read More
Absurd special session on bathrooms still possible It turns out there might be a special session of the General Assembly to decide public bathroom policy in Charlotte after all. House Speaker Tim... Read More
When I was in grade school, my school’s soccer team didn’t lose many games. Our coach routinely would tell us not to “play down” to the competition, as that would put us in a position to lose... Read More
Rates surged in 67 of the state’s 115 local school systems For the better part of a decade, North Carolina’s dropout rate has been on the decline. But this week, in the midst of ongoing bickering... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, March 4, 2016. The $2-billion bond package being promoted by Gov. Pat McCrory has received strong support from business leaders, government officials and high-level... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 4, 2016. The Republican Party is being buried under a Trumpslide, and it threatens to cover North Carolina and the entire country. Donald Trump should have... Read More
