Questions for lawmakers
The General Assembly has returned from its week-long break in the middle of this year’s legislative session. Here are four questions that may or may not be answered in the next couple of months as... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Power to the people
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 17, 2015. Partisan redistricting has lost two big court rulings recently, and the people have won. The people of North Carolina deserve their chance. The... Read More
Budget negotiators named; McCrory talks to GOP legislators
North Carolina legislators wrapped up their first week back after a week off with little to show toward getting the already late state budget finalized next month. By Thursday, both the House and... Read More
Pay teachers a market wage
In an interview published on the Capital and Main website, former U.S. Labor Secretary and University of California at Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich opined that, despite the importance... Read More
State bond proposal deserves a wider vote
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, July 15, 2015. In addition to completing a budget — which should have already been finished — the N.C. General Assembly is expected to take up a statewide bond... Read More
What confidence?
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 16, 2015. In a federal courtroom in Winston-Salem, Republicans are defending their voting law changes as actions necessary to “restore confidence” in... Read More
The need to regulate crisis pregnancy centers
Last month, in one of its more troubling recent rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case challenging North Carolina’s “Choose Life” license plates back to the Fourth Circuit Court of... Read More
Bad bill: Soak the rich, drown the poor
North Carolina’s historic 2013 tax reform drastically improved our state’s tax climate, making the Tar Heel State far more competitive for job and investment growth. The Tax Foundation credited... Read More
The forgotten starting point for Medicaid reform
One of the things holding up passage of a state budget for the next two years and the adjournment of the 2015 session of the General Assembly is Medicaid reform. Senate leaders stuffed their version... Read More
Despite record revenues federal government showed a deficit
Ali Meyer documents for Washington Free Beacon readers the federal government’s record-high tax collection for the 2015 budget year. The federal government collected a record amount of taxes in... Read More
