Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 16, 2015. How open and honest is state government in North Carolina? Not very, according to a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. The center's... Read More
Black drivers accounted for nearly two-thirds of people pulled over by Greensboro police officers for possible equipment violations, according to a News & Record analysis of five years of data on... Read More
Politicians have two main rhetorical tools as their disposal. When they want to build rapport with voters, they pull out a trusty anecdote — often about an impoverished childhood, an upwardly mobile... Read More
Governor McCrory is in hot water, and his spokesman sounds like a teapot on a hot stove. Democratic Rep. Larry Hall said of Prison-Gate, “It’s obvious they went to great lengths to ensure this... Read More
An important question McCrory hasn’t answered about the pay to play scandal The troubling pay to play scandal swirling around the McCrory Administration shows no signs of going away. Next week a... Read More
North Carolina Democrats seem poised to make education the centerpiece of the 2016 campaign. And why not? Per pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation, teachers are leaving for other... Read More
Forget the Marxist adage about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The emerging divide is an age-related one: The old are getting richer and the young are getting poorer. A recent... Read More
One member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Friday accused lawmakers of improperly meddling in the university system's operations, and others said they were "concerned" about... Read More
by Brian Balfour, Civitas Review online, November 13, 2015. From WUNC "State officials are celebrating a $1 billion surplus in the North Carolina unemployment trust fund. The Wednesday announcement... Read More
The state Department of Health and Human Services revealed Friday that a staffer potentially compromised the confidential health information of hundreds of Medicaid patients, marking the second time... Read More
