Gov. Pat McCrory announced Thursday that the state's unemployment reserve fund has reached $1 billion, its highest level since 2001. That's a significant improvement over early 2013, when North... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, November 13, 2015. The elections last week confirmed the view that North Carolina’s big cities are distinct from the rest of the state. The legislature has... Read More
British politician Enoch Powell once said: “For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.” Think about that for a minute. Politicians should... Read More
Within three weeks, in two editorials the Rev. William Barber II, head of the NC NAACP, has berated Christians to the right of him. In his October 19th piece, Jesus, Didn’t Join the Tea Party... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, November 11, 2015.Some studies yield such troubling findings that you just hope they’re wrong. But so far, no errors have surfaced in new mortality research on a... Read More
As many of us plan and prepare for family gatherings and celebratory meals in the upcoming holiday season, here’s a startling and disturbing fact to consider: Only a handful of U.S. states have... Read More
Consider these real-life scenarios: An Arizona family is told their 6-year-old son, Ryan, has symptoms on the autism spectrum. Doctors say he will need 20-40 hours per week of individual therapies... Read More
In a very unusual rebuke, the N.C. Court of Appeals sanctioned the N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office Friday for using delaying tactics in the case of a seven-year-old Sampson County girl... Read More
Wake County's district attorney has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into whether cash from sweepstakes businesses illegally flowed to a number of North Carolina campaigns, including... Read More
Amy Walsh remembers vividly the day she quit her job as primary-care doctor at a medical practice to seek a better way to provide health care. In a few weeks she will join nearly a dozen direct... Read More
