Company CEOs and municipal officials are joining other government and business leaders opposing North Carolina's new law that prevents specific anti-discrimination rules for LGBT people for public... Read More
The North Carolina Community College System is poised to become a national leader in career and college readiness. At a time when there is a spotlight on both high schools and community colleges to do... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, March 31, 2016 This was bound to happen. Tuesday, the eight surviving justices of the U.S. Supreme Court supercharged an already white-hot issue in the... Read More
Fifty years from now when historians look back at this era in North Carolina, the current controversy over the sweeping anti-LGBT legislation signed by Gov. Pat McCrory will be seen as a watershed... Read More
This week, a half-dozen officials from state and national equality groups stopped by to talk with the Observer’s editorial board about North Carolina’s new discrimination law. They were defiant... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 1, 2016. As governor and attorney general, Pat McCrory and Roy Cooper should work together. Instead, they’re adversaries in a legal, political and cultural... Read More
by Donna King, Jones and Blount, March 30, 2016. The heat is on N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper as leadership from both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly call for his resignation. This after... Read More
The Budget & Tax Center’s county-by-county economic snapshots provide a quick-reference resource for journalists, local officials, service providers and citizens in all 100 counties throughout the... Read More
The way things are going, Pat McCrory will have to change North Carolina’s new branding slogan from “Nothing Compares” to “Nobody Comes to NC.” While the Governor and his media minions are... Read More
In 1992, Colorado adopted a statewide solution to what it viewed as a local problem: Cities, towns and counties were amending their discrimination ordinances to protect homosexuals and other LGBT... Read More
