As I travel across the state, meeting and talking with voters about Main Street Democrats, I hear the same questions over and over, “what can we do to improve the state of politics? Why do we have... Read More
The crusade to privatize public education in North Carolina has become a hallmark of the folks currently in charge in Raleigh. There’s the sketchy school voucher scheme that diverts public money to... Read More
The mood of Millennial voters ahead of the 2016 elections is a “sense of helplessness.” Voters ages 18 to 34 see a nation very much divided along partisan, racial and socioeconomic lines. “There... Read More
Sadly, much of this presidential campaign has been a media circus, with most attention focused on the antics of Donald Trump and the emails of Hillary Clinton. This has been illuminating because it... Read More
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
