Appreciating greatness as it passes by
Editorial by Chicago Tribune, reprinted by Burlington Times-News, August 18, 2016. These Olympics are golden, aren’t they? We’ve tumbled for American gymnast Simone Biles and her coach Aimee... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Uncertainty, anxiety in new school year for transgender students
by Joe Killian, NC Policy Watch, August 18, 2016. LGBT advocates, Republican leadership await court ruling on HB2 injunction As North Carolina families load up at back-to-school sales this week, a... Read More
Without a thought
The 24-hour-news-cycle has turned into a 20-minute-news-cycle which doesn’t leave much time to think. About all a reporter – who has a publisher demanding a new story so he can sell more Internet... Read More
The GOP effort to suppress the African American vote continues
An extraordinary thing happened three weeks ago when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit threw out most of the massive voter suppression law passed by the General Assembly in 2013 and... Read More
Rucho: Biased judges made redistricting decision before hearing evidence
Rucho File photo Your revised account of history leaves out that North Carolina’s congressional and legislative maps have been validated on no fewer than four occasions – pre-approved by... Read More
McCrory should drop election-law appeal
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 18, 2016. Gov. Pat McCrory has every right to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision regarding the legislature... Read More
Trump leads among Unaffiliated voters in Civitas poll
A Civitas poll of North Carolina unaffiliated voters found that Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head match up, 38-28. Civitas President Francis De Luca said, “Unaffiliated voters... Read More
Left misleads on Carolina Comeback
Democrats and liberal commentators have been loudly and gleefully attacking Donald Trump and his campaign operatives for getting their chronologies wrong — for blaming the president for the onset of... Read More
No confusion at all
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 18, 2016. This election season hasn’t given us many laughs, so we’re grateful to Gov. Pat McCrory for this one: “Allowing the Fourth Circuit’s... Read More
State pension fund underfunded, losing money
North Carolina’s public employees retirement system is underfunded, bled more than $2 billion in red ink in the most recent 12-month period reported, and is outperformed by most other states, data... Read More
