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
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, August 4, 2015. Interstates carry more than cars and trucks to towns and cities. They transport goods to the marketplace. In other words, they generate business... Read More
If you ever thought that complaining about the tax system was a modern phenomenon, I can disabuse you of the notion in two sentences. The first, shorter one has an ancient pedigree. “The people are... Read More
