Public school advocacy groups are pointing out that inflation-adjusted per-student spending is lower than it was before the Great Recession. But I do not believe that ignoring the recession makes for... Read More
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Monday ?released a short summary of a controversial closed-door meeting during which the panel awarded raises to a dozen of the system's... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory says he has asked the federal government to stop sending Syrian refugees to North Carolina until more is known how those fleeing the war-torn country are vetted. Citing last week's... Read More
Obamacare’s third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been... Read More
The political debates are totally dishonest in regard to Social Security. Ponzi scheme or not, the problem is the funds were moved from a private account to the general Treasury during the Lyndon B... Read More
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
