With a stopgap spending measure in place, some lawmakers believe efforts to get schools prepared for the new year are humming along as the General Assembly battles over a final two year budget plan... Read More
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act. Passed in 1965, this landmark legislation made the promise of the vote real for millions of Americans who had been excluded from... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 5, 2015. The resignation Wednesday of Dr. Aldona Wos, the embattled secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, was as overdue as it was... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 6, 2015. When Greensboro resident Aldona Wos was appointed secretary of the state Department of Health & Human Services, she agreed to a yearly salary of... Read More
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, August 5, 2015. State Senate leaders announced Wednesday they're willing to remove several major policy items from their budget plan in order to restart stalled negotiations... Read More
Democrats are surely and sorely tempted to blast Republican legislators for dallying and delaying the budget. Not so fast, my friends. Here, slow is good. Especially after Senate Capo Tom Apodaca... Read More
The big story this week in the General Assembly is not the remarkably quiet budget negotiations between the House and Senate as August 14th approaches, the day that the continuing resolution keeping... Read More
North Carolina's Medicaid agency said Tuesday that it had good financial news at the close of the second consecutive fiscal year, again registering a positive cash balance. The leftover funds may help... Read More
When Transportation Secretary Tony Tata abruptly announced his resignation last week, he became the latest in a series of defections from Gov. Pat McCrory's administration. Since he took the helm of... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, August 3, 2015. U.S. Highway 74 is a big old tease. Just when you think you’re in for some modern interstate-like travel, the highway reverts to its old self and... Read More
