Editor’s note: In the aftermath of yesterday’s momentous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of King v. Burwell sustaining a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, June 27, 2015. It was likely a portent of things to come when state lawmakers adjourned for the weekend without reaching agreement on a continuing resolution to fund... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
