Still not enough
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 28, 2015. Two years ago, North Carolina lawmakers approved one of the strictest — or worst, depending on your reading of events — voter identification... Read More
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Legal experts say court ruling has mixed messages
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the country isn’t as clear-cut as it might seem, legal experts say. It also allows ministers to... Read More
NC Magistrate's law butts head with court ruling, some legislators say
by Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, June 26, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court decision that makes same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states does not directly deal with the North Carolina law... Read More
Excluded no more
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 27, 2015. It always has seemed a peculiar trope that gay couples who wanted to wed somehow were besmirching the institution. Justice Anthony Kennedy addressed... Read More
Cutting teacher assistants defies logic
Last week the N.C. Senate approved a budget that includes a $57.5 million cut to teacher assistant funding. This would eliminate 5,200 teacher assistant positions in the next school year and more than... Read More
Senate budget also took aim at anti-discrimination law
North Carolina might scale back its efforts to fight unlawful discrimination, if a Senate budget provision to repeal the state’s fair housing act is adopted as law. The provision, which would repeal... Read More
Another relic of racist past
It is indeed time to rethink a relic of the South’s legacy of racism – progressivism. The news is about Confederate flags or statutes of rebel leaders. As a Yankee I’ll stay out of that... Read More
The Stars and Stripes
He’d been doing business for thirty years and if what he’d been doing wasn’t illegal like selling moonshine it also wasn’t quite the same as being President of the local bank or owner of the... Read More
With Hagan out, which Democrat will challenge Burr?
Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s decision this week not to run for Sen. Richard Burr’s seat in 2016 leaves a wide open field for Democrats with no clear frontrunner. Here’s a quick look at who might... Read More
The ACA affirmed
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 26, 2015. Battered but intact, the Affordable Care Act survived its latest siege on Thursday. By a solid 6-3 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the... Read More
