A new 'North Carolina Innovation Index' report - the fifth since 2000 - offers a mixed view of where the state stands in economic development and opportunity. While "beset with challenges," it's also... Read More
A commission that spent more than a year reviewing the Common Core standards for North Carolina's public school students stunned many people Friday when it didn't recommend scrapping the way math is... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, Deember 17, 2015. MillerCoors workers, their union, people in Rockingham County and their elected representatives are right to fight against the company’s... Read More
Sunday morning I stayed in bed, read the newspapers and watched the morning political shows and when I was done I’d learned two facts: No one in the Democratic political elite, the Republican elite... Read More
Back in December 2012, North Carolina had about 6,624,000 registered voters. Back then the state had about 9,750,000 or so. Today, it has over 10 million people but there are only... Read More
Rarely do we hear a politician talk so candidly and publicly about the shortcomings of his political party. State Rep. Ken Goodman, a Democrat from Rockingham, did that recently at a luncheon with... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 17, 2015. U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of Winston-Salem was right to reject Donald Trump’s call for a conditional ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Such a ban... Read More
A U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday challenged the proposed $107 billion merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SAB Miller, which would combine the largest beer makers in the world into one company. Concerns... Read More
The party of less government rolled into Raleigh after the 2010 elections champing at the bit, eager to fulfill an agenda long delayed. “Regulations kill jobs” became the rallying cry, but as it... Read More
This year, for the second time since 2012, not a single person was sentenced to death in North Carolina. Our state is clearly realizing that, while no punishment can heal the terrible grief of violent... Read More
