One of the ongoing tensions underlying much of the current debate over public education in North Carolina is the amount of money available to support our schools. Last year, with an economic recovery... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, January 21, 2016. Roughly 10,000 children are in North Carolina’s child welfare system on any single day, and a new federal review finds the state should be... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 20, 2016. Sometimes the numbers tell us one thing but our guts say something else. The scales tell us we’ve lost weight but our waistbands tell us no way... Read More
John Daniel Davidson explains for National Review Online readers why Medicaid expansion remains a bad idea for the states who have not yet taken the Obama administration’s bait. The offer, which... Read More
Ahead of this fall’s election, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest swung through the county briefly Tuesday to let voters know he feels the state’s Republican-led legislature has the momentum to push North... Read More
A new Civitas poll shows the upcoming GOP primary is a virtual toss-up in North Carolina. The poll asked likely Republican primary election voters who their current choice is among the Republican... Read More
North Carolina's Office of State Controller has asked the state's largest teachers group to verify its membership numbers or risk losing the ability to have members deduct their dues directly from... Read More
He’s a nasty guy. A very nasty guy.” Donald Trump was talking about Ted Cruz and with the same uncanny instinct that unmanned Jeb Bush with two words (“low-energy”) he’d put his finger on... Read More
It’s not just that our nation is divided. Both parties are divided. The Democrats’ division is generational. The Republicans’ division is personal. One party’s insurgency comes from the left... Read More
If you want to cut through the election-year spin about what the folks currently in charge in Raleigh have done to public education in the state in the last few years, a publication released this week... Read More
