Extended session cost may near $2M
North Carolina legislators haven’t agreed yet on a spending plan for the current year – but they are still spending taxpayer money as they wrangle over the budget. The Legislature passed a... Read More
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Six things our legislators (and the public) should know about JDIG
In less than five months, North Carolina’s flagship business recruitment tool is scheduled to sunset. Since 2003, the Job Development Investment Grant program (JDIG) has played a key role in... Read More
The Friday Follies
A new found expeditiousness about the overdue budget There finally seems to be some urgency to pass a budget at the General Assembly, six weeks after it was due and just a week before school starts... Read More
Millennials forcing politicians to change their approach
Wednesday’s Charlotte Talks will speak with Kristen Soltis Anderson, author of “The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America,” along with a researcher from the Pew Research Center... Read More
Examining misleading claims about Colorado's Taxpayer Protection Act
NOTE: This week the NC Senate approved a Taxpayer Protection Act that would enact restraints on the annual growth rate of the state budget. (For more on the legislation, go to NC Capitol Connection... Read More
Enough is enough at the General Assembly
Senator Tom Apodaca was partially right Wednesday afternoon when he lamented the inability of legislative leaders to reach a final agreement on a state budget six weeks after it was due and just days... Read More
Democratic primary deja vu?
A couple weeks ago, Democrats were having difficulty landing just one candidate to go up against Richard Burr. Now, they might have multiple. No one’s officially declared yet, but several folks have... Read More
We want a budget - but not a bad one
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, August 13, 2015. We’re tempted to say, enough already. The General Assembly is unconscionably overdue in passing a state budget for a fiscal year that began six weeks... Read More
