Friday follies
Speaker Moore rules out teacher pay raise costing less than last year’s tax cut State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson made headlines this week by calling for a ten percent raise... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Lofty, laudable education goals
Even as an often-cynical reporter, I was impressed by the collaboration among some of the state’s top education and business leaders at a recent meeting of Gov. Pat McCrory’s Education Cabinet... Read More
Supreme Court upholds McCrory's challenge to coal ash panel
North Carolina lawmakers tried to take too much power out of the hands of Gov. Pat McCrory when they created a trio of commissions, including one that oversee coal ash cleanup, a divided state Supreme... Read More
Steve and Cokie Roberts: The Sanders attraction
Yes, we will raise taxes. Yes we will.” When Sen. Bernie Sanders made that statement at a town hall in Iowa this week, Republicans all over the country leapt out of their chairs, cheering. If... Read More
Education insanity
Some credit Albert Einstein, others credit Benjamin Franklin, with the observation that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results... Read More
McCrory makes a political decision to listen to a local government
It’s not very often that a governor issues a press release touting the benefits of a new economic development project his administration has negotiated and then two weeks later says the project is... Read More
Debate over protest
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 28, 2016. A rude protest disrupted the start of a UNC Board of Governors meeting Tuesday and led to some arrests. That’s not how to conduct a meaningful... Read More
House Speaker: No 10 percent pay raises for teachers
House Speaker Tim Moore said he’d like to give teachers raises this year, but rejected a proposal for a 10 percent increase, calling it unrealistic. Superintendent of Public Instruction June... Read More
Poll should have focused on Medicaid expansion facts
A new poll commissioned by NC Child and conducted by PPP polling has me scratching my head. It asked 2,000 North Carolinians if they supported using available funds to close the health insurance gap... Read More
TV cord cutters upending industry
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, January 28, 2016. A bunch of the most talked-about television programs aren’t on traditional TV networks or cable channels, they’re on Internet streaming... Read More
