Economic statistics can be confusing, I know: I’ve been dealing with them as a professional economist for almost 40 years. While some say you can prove anything with statistics, I say, no, you just... Read More
Has America really come to this? Have we come to where we must rely on the Republican Party to save us from electing a President who is an arrogant, egotistical blowhard with the vocabulary and... Read More
Despite claims that restricting coordination between promoters of the $2 billion bond referendum and candidates will "dramatically and seriously inhibit" the campaign, state elections officials are... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory signed an executive order Friday designed to curtail employers' ability to classify workers as contractors to get around paying certain state taxes. The order creates an Employee... Read More
Almost a year to the day since the North Carolina Supreme Court first ruled in favor of congressional and legislative voting maps drawn by the Republican-led General Assembly in 2011, the court once... Read More
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
