Why Phil's been grouchy
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, March 7, 2017. Reporters look for what is new, and that’s what the legislative press corps did that day years back... Read More
NC Spin Articles
College leftists may have overplayed their hand
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Institute, March 8, 2017. On March 2, a violent leftist mob at Middlebury College kept one of the nation’s most distinguished writers and researchers from speaking. Is that a... Read More
Want to really protect women?
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, March 10, 2017. To be fair, HB2, the Tar Heel “bathroom bill,” is not without its admirers. Down in Austin, a number of Texas legislators are trying to pass... Read More
Shelter shows power of community
They come in fear. They leave with hope. That’s one way to describe the many hundreds of people who make their way every year to Wilson’s Wesley Shelter, a nonprofit founded in 1983 to combat... Read More
State board votes to close Durham charter school after diploma problems
The State Board of Education voted Thursday to close Durham's Kestrel Heights charter high school after problems over an eight-year period in which students were given diplomas despite not completing... Read More
Politics? There's no politics in baseball
David Harsanyi of the Federalist offers one surefire way to ruin baseball: Inject politics into the game. Jayson Stark, a longtime baseball writer at ESPN.com, recently asked if Major League... Read More
A pair of bills would chip away more of the Governor's authority
Here we go again. More proposed fiddling with the courts by our legislature. Two bills filed today would transfer from the governor to the legislature the power to appoint District Court judges and... Read More
Support grows for vouchers and charter schools, but they can't fix what ails us
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, March 2, 2017. At first glance, you do a double-take: African-American lawmakers — Democrats — supporting school vouchers and charter schools? Aren't those... Read More
Boycott could harm repeal efforts
Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, reprinted in The Daily Reflector, March 1, 2017 The N.C. General Assembly's stubborn attachment to discriminatory House Bill 2, aka HB2, has cost the state... Read More
A disaster is going to happen to the NC coast. Here's how to avoid it
Somewhere down the road it is likely that the rising sea will provide the first truly global environmental disaster related to climate change. It will affect millions of people as the seas invade the... Read More
