North Carolina House Appropriations Chairman Dean Arp (R-Union) and Deputy Majority Leader Stephen Ross (R-Alamance) introduced House Bill 583 Pay-As-You-Go Capital & Infrastructure Fund at a press... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 7, 2017. North Carolina’s ABC system is heavy on the C, as in Control. Alcoholic Beverage Control laws run from Chapter 18B-100 through 18B-1309 in the... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, April 4, 2017. They played a little ballgame in Arizona Monday night. And the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s NCAA championship win over Gonzaga was... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, April 6, 2017. A bill in the state House that would raise the age of smoking and vaping to 21 is timely and welcome. House Bill 435 is being moved by a bipartisan... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, April 6, 2017. There is new hope on the horizon for fairer elections in North Carolina. Its name is House Bill 200. The legislation introduced in March by a... Read More
In the New York Times, Nate Cohn suggests that Democrats might be addressing the turnout problems they’ve faced in recent midterm elections. Nationally, the last two midterms were disasters for... Read More
Now that HB2 has been partially repealed, enough for the NCAA and ACC anyway, a lot of folks in Raleigh are hoping the issue of discrimination in North Carolina goes away for a while, at least for the... Read More
Roy Williams won another NCAA title. And Roy Cooper may have won us more NCAAs. Which highlights the big part that sports played in the HB2 repeal. Give the NCAA and ACC credit for an assist. Point to... Read More
The child welfare system is a last resort for children who are at risk of serious injury, trauma, or even death. As a society, we have a moral obligation to provide these children with a safe... Read More
A fine little line lurks just under one of the eyes that stares out at me from the bathroom mirror each morning. It marks where a plastic surgeon did a pretty good job of patching up a pretty bad... Read More
