Pay for driver's ed
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 9, 2015. When their children approach driving age is a fearful time for many parents. Can it be true that the kid who has barely emerged from awkward... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Trump leads GOP field in North Carolina
PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds that Donald Trump's momentum just keeps on building. He's the top choice of Republican primary voters in the state, getting 16% to 12% for Jeb Bush and Scott... Read More
Former Raleigh Mayor to seek Labor post
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, July 8, 2015. Former Raleigh mayor Charles Meeker is planning a 2016 run for state commissioner of labor. Meeker, 61, served as mayor of Raleigh from 2001 to 2011 after serving... Read More
Time for independent redistricting panel
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, July 7, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court just completed one of its more important terms in recent memory. The justices, just as divided ideologically as the Americans... Read More
To bond or not to bond?
On one hand, it’s a good time to borrow money. Interest rates are low, as are construction costs. North Carolina has many long-ignored needs — state buildings need repairs and updates, roads need... Read More
Yet another legislative power grab
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, July 7, 2015. “I think we have too many senators and representatives who want to be mayor, city council members, county commissioners, even governor.” That... Read More
House vs. Senate
First the House got its arms twisted by the Senate and cried uncle. WRAL’s Mark Binker described what happened last week after even Republicans in the House couldn’t swallow the Greensboro... Read More
The disturbing, "little noticed provisions" stuck in the Senate budget
One of the most often used phrases these days by the media outlets that cover the General Assembly is “a little-noticed provision in the Senate 500-page budget bill…” Tuesday the News & Observer... Read More
Want to know where NC is heading? Look at SC, circa 1995
For the past 50 years or so, most of the country looked at the two Carolinas and saw two distinctly different states. North Carolina was a beacon of progress in an otherwise backward South. Its... Read More
An indictment of the state's broken campaign finance system
The most shocking disclosure made in a recent hearing by the State Board of Elections about Sen. Fletcher Hartsell's campaign spending wasn't that the longtime Republican legislator from Concord... Read More
