McCrory cracks down on employment fraud
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
NC Spin Articles
NC Supreme Court again upholds state voting maps
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
Report: NC beset with challenges but 'rich with opportunities'
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
State panel doesn't scrap Common Core math as expected
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
Jobs worth a fight
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
As Rome is burning
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
Where the hell did all the voters go?
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
Seeking middle ground
Rarely do we hear a politician talk so candidly and publicly about the shortcomings of his political party. State Rep. Ken Goodman, a Democrat from Rockingham, did that recently at a luncheon with... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 17, 2015. U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of Winston-Salem was right to reject Donald Trump’s call for a conditional ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Such a ban... Read More
US Senate hears beer merger objections, Eden brewery set to close
A U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday challenged the proposed $107 billion merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SAB Miller, which would combine the largest beer makers in the world into one company. Concerns... Read More
