State legislators are debating some substantial changes to the coverage options currently available to state employees and retirees. At a meeting of the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight... Read More
If you watch the evening news broadcasts or read the local paper, you have been told that more educators than ever are leaving North Carolina to teach elsewhere because the N.C. General Assembly... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, November 22, 2015. If there were any North Carolinians out there who still doubted that campaign contributors get special treatment from some politicians, they... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 22, 2015. Our two top school officials were in Raleigh Wednesday, fighting back against the state legislature’s capricious rules on low-performing... Read More
House Speaker Tim Moore said he is confident “nothing improper happened” in contract talks between the McCrory administration and a Charlotte businessman with ties to McCrory. Moore, who took over... Read More
North Carolina’s jobless rate in October fell slightly to 5.7 percent from September’s revised rate of 5.8 percent, the N.C. Department of Commerce reported Friday. The October rate was unchanged... Read More
Two recent media reports have cast a spotlight on the potential “pay to play” problem with government contractors who are also donors to political campaigns. Liberal pols and activists were... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, November 22, 2015. If you want to know what the movement that has been rattling cages on college campuses is all about, go to YouTube and watch a video titled... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, November 21, 2015. The issue of whether or not the United States should make homes for 10,000 Syrian refugees isn’t quite the slam dunk those on either side of... Read More
Approximately 34 percent of children in the United States do not receive all doses of vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) by age two, according to a new... Read More
