Budget battle: How much to spend?
As the House and Senate work toward a final state budget compromise for this fiscal year, it’s sometimes difficult to separate serious legislative proposals that have a chance of passing both... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Steal the wealth
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 14, 2015. Guilford County isn’t the richest county in the state, but it collects more sales-tax revenue than most. It would keep less of it under a Senate... Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the U.S. .....
On Saturday, August 1, 2015, I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation with James Carville and Mary Matalin at the Carolinas Associated General Contractors event in Greenville, South Carolina... Read More
Moore: Budget deal in sight
House Speaker Tim Moore said House and Senate budget negotiators will likely strike a deal on the bottom-line number Thursday, clearing the way for work on a final spending plan. "Conversations are... Read More
Lessons from the Halifax takeover
This week the N.C. State Board of Education sent a letter to the Halifax County Board of Education declaring that state education officials “will take a more direct role in the district’s budget... Read More
Out of state money funding secret plan to takeover worst public schools
Extensive behind-the-scenes work to develop proposal Rep. Rob Bryan (R-Mecklenburg) may be the face of a plan to allow charter school operators to take over North Carolina’s worst performing schools... Read More
Tears in the mansion
Once upon a time, crying in public was political suicide. (See Ed Muskie, 1972, in the snows of New Hampshire.) Now, we’re more in touch with politicians who are more in touch with their feelings... Read More
The worst idea yet
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 13, 2015. The N.C. legislature has enacted many unwise policies in the past few years. The Senate has just come up with the worst yet. Why the worst... Read More
State budget process is broken
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, August 12, 2015. The preamble to the North Carolina Constitution says the very reason the document is being established is for “the better government of this State... Read More
Dueling rallies for different tax bills
Gov. Pat McCrory and Senate Republicans held dueling rallies Wednesday seeking support late in this year’s session from local government leaders and the public for two tax bills involving local... Read More
