The State Board of Education has created a list of six budget priorities it wants Gov. Pat McCrory to consider this year. At the top of the list: teacher salaries. School board members debated this... Read More
University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings has impressed several chancellors of the 17-campus university system during initial meetings. Spellings, whose first day on the job was... Read More
Socialism: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods (Merriam Webster... Read More
During a recent book tour across North Carolina, I had occasion to visit with thousands of politically active people, most of them conservatives. The most frequent question I received, especially... Read More
The State Board of Education members were presented with a packet of reference material on Wednesday to assist them in preparing new education standards to replace Common Core in the coming months... Read More
Donald Trump, while not completely engulfing his opponents with a tsunami, did extremely well on Super Tuesday. Most observers would normally designate any other candidate with similar success as the... Read More
Obscured by the Republican bloodletting, Hillary Clinton not only is winning primaries, but beginning to look like a winner in November. Her message and her delivery on Super Tuesday night showed how... Read More
The folks running the Connect NC bond campaign have to be getting a little nervous these days, now less than two weeks away from voters deciding if the state should borrow $2 billion for much-needed... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, March 3, 2016. Nothing seems to escape the long reach of politics these days. Sometimes all the bickering and jockeying for position makes us want to escape politics... Read More
