It has been 9 months since the UNC Board of Governors unexpectedly and clumsily fired President Tom Ross at its January meeting with little notice and no justification. At a bizarre news conference... Read More
Want to know why so many legislators aren’t running again? Here’s a fact: serving in the General Assembly is just not fun. Case in point is Rep. Nathan Baskerville (D-Vance), who announced... Read More
Republicans seeking to require photo identification for North Carolina voters uttered the words “election integrity” and “integrity of the ballot box” countless times in recent years... Read More
A national watchdog groups has asked the IRS to sanction Carolina Rising, a nonprofit group that played a key role in North Carolina's 2014 U.S. Senate election, The Center for Public Integrity... Read More
Almost 40 percent of the companies North Carolina officials announced would bring jobs to the state in exchange for taxpayer-funded incentive cash have failed to hire a single worker, according to new... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, October 19, 2015. Shortly after the school year began in August, Cumberland County schools had nearly 90 teaching vacancies. Robeson County, a much smaller school... Read More
Prediction is very difficult,” said physicist Niels Bohr, “especially if it’s about the future.” This sounds like a sort of Yogi Berra-style quip. But Bohr was actually making a serious point... Read More
The state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award, will be presented to six North Carolinians, including former Sen. Jim Broyhill and education champion and politician Howard Lee, both of... Read More
New and powerful report indicates we’ve been making things much too complicated It may be hard to believe in today’s world of trickledown, dog-eat-dog, “Trump-o-nomics,” but it was just a few... Read More
The search for a new UNC system president got a heck of a lot more interesting late last week. The name of the top candidate went public. The UNC Board of Governors fractured. And some of the state... Read More
