North Carolina has risen to No. 2 on Forbes’ “Best States For Business and Careers” ranking, again moving up one spot. The Tarheel State has now moved up one spot in the rankings every year... Read More
Medicaid is the public program assisting limited-income households with their health care expenditures. Begun in 1965, the program is jointly funded by the federal and state governments. In North... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, October 20, 2015. US Airways passed silently into aviation history Saturday, completing a merger that absorbed it into American Airlines. It’s a once-thriving... Read More
Long ago the bib-overall wearing editor of a small weekly newspaper in Raleigh published a story claiming Jim Hunt was gay. There wasn’t a word of truth in it. He’d made it up and splashed it... Read More
t’s probably getting tough for most people to keep up with all the court cases, settlements, and fines surrounding coal ash contamination at sites across North Carolina owned by Duke Energy. Every... Read More
by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, October 22, 2015. I don’t usually make too many political predictions because politics is so unpredictable. That said, I’m going to make some predictions about the... Read More
On the second day of her job as secretary of education in the George W. Bush administration in 2004, Margaret Spellings sent a letter to the CEO of PBS demanding that a children’s show that featured... Read More
When Attorney General Roy Cooper officially announced his bid for governor in 2016 last week, he didn’t steal the show at the event in his honor in Rocky Mount. His three grown daughters did. And if... Read More
Now that the legislature has adjourned the focus turns to the 2016 election campaign and the first campaign ads have already started. Following Treasurer Janet Cowell’s surprising announcement she... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, October 21, 2015. One of the bright spots of the recently adjourned legislative session is a $2 billion infrastructure bond referendum that will go before North... Read More
