by Julia Sims and David Crabtree, WRAL, October 29, 2015. More than 100 people rallied Thursday afternoon outside the Governor's Mansion, including some who blocked the street in front of the building... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday signed into law a measure that prohibits any North Carolina county or municipality from restricting local law enforcement's ability to cooperate with federal immigration... Read More
A TAPster beat me to the punch in dismissing Rep. Gary Pendleton’s headline-grabbing but misguided idea of limiting the length of legislative sessions: Rep. Pendleton bravely talks about how other... Read More
Demonstrators say the refusal by state lawmakers to expand Medicaid is killing thousands of North Carolinians. To illustrate their point, dozens of protesters carrying cutouts of tombstones held a... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 27, 2015. Gunfire erupted outside a party on Boyd Street early Saturday, with several people firing weapons, police say. One person was killed; an officer... Read More
In his book The Conservative Heart, Arthur Brooks writes that for too long conservatives have argued moral issues in monetary terms. In their quest to preserve the American dream of the possibility... Read More
It is not a surprise that proposals to limit the length of legislative sessions are making the rounds in Raleigh these days. A lot of people are still reeling from the contentious and grueling eight... Read More
I thought about filing to run for a seat on the school board. Can’t do it, Guilford County Board of Elections Director Charlie Collicutt told me Monday. “You will not be able to file as a partisan... Read More
When the Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010, analysts from the Congressional Budget Office, the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, and private-sector allies released estimates... Read More
Sometimes politicians just have to rise above principle. Like Republican legislative leaders who have come to love spending taxpayers’ money – for goodies that help them politically. The... Read More
