Heading into the general election, I'm analyzing the voter registration pool for North Carolina at the beginning of each month, watching for key trends and development of certain voting groups. Based... Read More
President Barack Obama and his first attorney general, Eric Holder, called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us "a nation of cowards" because we were unwilling to have a... Read More
Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina’s State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.’s California settlement, a purported $168.5 million pact with the state’s attorney general amid... Read More
We shouldn’t be surprised when stories in the mainstream press leave out the important information readers need to be fully educated. Omitting the information usually serves the interests of the... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 13, 2016. Democrat Roy Cooper rolled out his jobs plan Wednesday in Charlotte by underscoring the same theme he’s been hammering on the campaign trail – that... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 15, 2016. The “Dump Trump” movement, if it can be called a movement, is an undemocratic fantasy. Donald Trump won enough votes in primaries and caucuses... Read More
The economy is one of the top issues in this year’s elections, all the way from state and local races to the major contest of the year – the presidential election. So it may be helpful to make a... Read More
On a recent Thursday, three African-American members of the N.C. General Assembly held a press conference to draw attention to recent shootings of black men by police. They talked in the aftermath of... Read More
Legislative leaders say they care about helping struggling schools in North Carolina and the students who attend them—but they don’t act much like they do. Imagine going to the doctor for an ear... Read More
