Ethics group targets Carolina Rising
A national watchdog groups has asked the IRS to sanction Carolina Rising, a nonprofit group that played a key role in North Carolina's 2014 U.S. Senate election, The Center for Public Integrity... Read More
NC Spin Articles
State leaders' job promises continue to come up short
Almost 40 percent of the companies North Carolina officials announced would bring jobs to the state in exchange for taxpayer-funded incentive cash have failed to hire a single worker, according to new... Read More
Education reform fails without well-paid teachers
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, October 19, 2015. Shortly after the school year began in August, Cumberland County schools had nearly 90 teaching vacancies. Robeson County, a much smaller school... Read More
Six trends to shape 2016
Prediction is very difficult,” said physicist Niels Bohr, “especially if it’s about the future.” This sounds like a sort of Yogi Berra-style quip. But Bohr was actually making a serious point... Read More
Broyhill, Lee among 6 to receive state's highest honor
The state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award, will be presented to six North Carolinians, including former Sen. Jim Broyhill and education champion and politician Howard Lee, both of... Read More
Surprise! Money is a great cure for poverty and its many ills
New and powerful report indicates we’ve been making things much too complicated It may be hard to believe in today’s world of trickledown, dog-eat-dog, “Trump-o-nomics,” but it was just a few... Read More
BOG member Marty Kotis offers insights on chaotic UNC president search
The search for a new UNC system president got a heck of a lot more interesting late last week. The name of the top candidate went public. The UNC Board of Governors fractured. And some of the state... Read More
Scoping out Margaret Spellings
Now that Chairman Fennebresque has revealed former Education Secretary Mrs. Spellings as his candidate for UNC President, let’s talk about her. First, she can be tough. And reforming higher... Read More
Sources: Fennebresque, Spellings met with McCrory
UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent “emergency" meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat... Read More
Downsizing the federal role in education
Years of federally driven testing reform and a botched rollout of sweeping, federally incentivized standards have tried the patience of the American people. On their minds now: Downsizing the federal... Read More
