Health plans post big losses
When the Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010, analysts from the Congressional Budget Office, the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, and private-sector allies released estimates... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Republicans do believe in government spending
Sometimes politicians just have to rise above principle. Like Republican legislative leaders who have come to love spending taxpayers’ money – for goodies that help them politically. The... Read More
Making the best of the new UNC president
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 26, 2015. Note to the board of the University of North Carolina system: If you’re going to throw a controversial new president at your entity and the rest... Read More
Fennebresque quits UNC Board of Governors
Under fire for how the search for a new University of North Carolina system president was selected, UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque resigned his seat on the board Monday. The... Read More
Net effect
Eric Evenson is very, very worried about fish. Evenson, 55, a lifelong North Carolinian, says he’s been fishing since he was a 5-year-old tossing a line into the surf at his grandfather’s cottage... Read More
Legislative candidates few
With all of the defections from the General Assembly as of late, you’d think dozens – if not hundreds – of qualified candidates from across the state would be lining up to run for those offices... Read More
Who said that?
The candidate “has the knack of doing things and doing them noisily, clamorously; while he is in the neighborhood the public can no more look the other way than the small boy can turn his head away... Read More
Frank Hill: Is N.C. punching above its weight in funding higher education?
There are always interesting things you discover when you start looking deep into statistics and facts of any public policy issue. In North Carolina, one such ‘interesting’ case is the whole issue... Read More
Changing Medicaid to managed care could take years
Gov. Pat McCrory's signature on House Bill 372 wasn't the end of North Carolina's effort to change how the state's $14 billion Medicaid system works.While the political wrangling may be over for the... Read More
Kids take 100-plus required tests through 12th grade
Students, parents and teachers have long lamented the hours that kids spend taking standardized tests, especially since the introduction of the Common Core academic standards. But just how much time... Read More
