North Carolina was sucker-punched by our own state legislature. Our early presidential primaries didn’t turn out the way Republican lawmakers thought when they decided back in 2013 that North... Read More
Full disclosure: I don’t have a “favorite” candidate in the current presidential contest. The contender most intriguing to me got out of the race about the time it started. (His initials are... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 16, 2016. North Carolina Republicans handed Donald Trump another prize Tuesday, but they should worry about the future. Hillary Clinton won the Democratic... Read More
In national news coverage leading up to the March 15 presidential primaries, North Carolina’s election was treated as an afterthought. The winner-take-all GOP primaries in Florida and Ohio dominated... Read More
N.C. Education Lottery officials last week showed legislators a video of school kids in New York surprising convenience store customers by singing a song of thanks in the store. “Every time you play... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, March 15, 2016. North Carolina voters go to the polls today with a chance to perhaps play a role in determining the presidential nominees of both major parties. Or... Read More
Keeping perspective, commitment to peaceful change the best path for progressives In a 1947 speech in the British House of Commons, Winston Churchill famously and correctly observed that “it has... Read More
Way back on July 8th PPP released a North Carolina poll that was the first survey to find Donald Trump leading the Republican race anywhere in the country. 8 months later our final poll of the GOP... Read More
Hillary Clinton may have a nearly 20-point lead in the latest PPP North Carolina poll, but she and Bernie Sanders are both fighting hard here – and coming here on the last day. Why? Because our... Read More
Some citizens have raised a very good question regarding the Connect NC bond: How can the state afford to pay for a $2 billion bond without a tax increase? Aggressive debt retirement, strong revenues... Read More
