The Friday Follies
The GOP’s handpicked and dysfunctional Board of Governors The award for most dysfunctional state agency these days has to go to the UNC Board of Governors as it continues its search for a new... Read More
NC Spin Articles
We need a push for the middle in national politics
Just so you know, people and organizations are out there trying to put an end to the partisan politics that have left Congress incapable of moving the United States forward in any meaningful way on... Read More
UNC train wreck
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 17, 2015. Friday’s UNC Board of Governors train wreck was set in motion back in January, but it wasn’t inevitable. Chairman John Fennebresque could... Read More
McCrory doesn't like UNC search bill
Gov. Pat McCrory defended the University of North Carolina governing board on Friday as he criticized a bill that would require the board to consider at least three candidates before choosing a new... Read More
UNC search: The ends do not justify the means
Last night, the Raleigh News & Observer revealed that the UNC Presidential Search Committee’s top candidate for the next system president is former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings... Read More
Jensen: NC Governor race most-watched nationally
North Carolina features “undoubtedly the premier governor’s race of the country” for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval... Read More
UNC board members call for Fennebesque resignation
Today’s emergency meeting of the UNC Board of Governors, where a possible successor to outgoing president Tom Ross will be interviewed, has been called an attempt to bypass a law enacted by the... Read More
Rising NC Infant mortality underscores need to expand Medicaid
The word “consistency” suggests stability, predictability, normalcy. It implies that we can move on and not worry. When the State of North Carolina announced our 2014 infant mortality data this... Read More
Ross rolls out
Thirty hours after Roy Cooper’s announcement and just as the Democratic presidential debate was ending, Deborah Ross announced for US Senate. If she and Cooper do as well the rest of the way as... Read More
