Government gets poor data
Politicians have two main rhetorical tools as their disposal. When they want to build rapport with voters, they pull out a trusty anecdote — often about an impoverished childhood, an upwardly mobile... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Feeling the heat
Governor McCrory is in hot water, and his spokesman sounds like a teapot on a hot stove. Democratic Rep. Larry Hall said of Prison-Gate, “It’s obvious they went to great lengths to ensure this... Read More
The Friday follies
An important question McCrory hasn’t answered about the pay to play scandal The troubling pay to play scandal swirling around the McCrory Administration shows no signs of going away. Next week a... Read More
A new narrative for public education
North Carolina Democrats seem poised to make education the centerpiece of the 2016 campaign. And why not? Per pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation, teachers are leaving for other... Read More
Wealth gap wides between generations
Forget the Marxist adage about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The emerging divide is an age-related one: The old are getting richer and the young are getting poorer. A recent... Read More
UNC governors debate political interference
One member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Friday accused lawmakers of improperly meddling in the university system's operations, and others said they were "concerned" about... Read More
$600 million in tax cuts coming to NC job providers in 2016
by Brian Balfour, Civitas Review online, November 13, 2015. From WUNC "State officials are celebrating a $1 billion surplus in the North Carolina unemployment trust fund. The Wednesday announcement... Read More
DHHS discloses second Medicaid data breach
The state Department of Health and Human Services revealed Friday that a staffer potentially compromised the confidential health information of hundreds of Medicaid patients, marking the second time... Read More
Will a million students march?
In the wake of protests resulting in the ousting of the University of Missouri’s president and its chancellor earlier this week comes an energized national day of protests by universities across the... Read More
Locking in the meager level of investments in the Great Recession
As the political season heats up and spin machines start cranking out the talking points about what happened in this year’s legislative session, here are a few things to remember that are not in... Read More
