The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to uphold healthcare tax credits in the 34 state that opted not to establish state-run exchanges. In a similar fashion to the 2012 decision of National... Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold a key provision of the federal Affordable Care Act means Gov. Pat McCrory has a big health care decision of his own to make: whether to expand North... Read More
North Carolina lawmakers are less than a week away from a new fiscal year and they don’t yet agree fully on how state government should operate during expected prolonged budget and tax negotiations... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 25, 2015. She blinded us with science. Or at least she’s tried to. In a last-ditch effort to save an unpopular bill, state Sen. Trudy Wade has grafted it to... Read More
We love to “have a national conversation” at times like this. We talk about race and hate. We talk about the church and faith. We talk about the Confederate flag. We talk about politicians... Read More
No one disputes that North Carolina faces a teacher shortage in the not too distant future. Not only are veteran teachers leaving the profession because of low pay, frustrating working conditions and... Read More
A large number of N.C. wage earners have been a community college student in the past 10 years. The annual impact of the education and training that takes place within our community colleges... Read More
The ranks of Americans who are hostile toward business, executives, job creators, and the increasingly targeted ‘one percent’ seems to increase in size and intensity every day. Until a month ago... Read More
By John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal, published in Greensboro News-Record, June 24, 2015. A noisy protest staged last week by the state NAACP at the N.C. Legislative Building in Raleigh forced... Read More
It promises to be a long hot summer in the Legislative Building in Raleigh as House and Senate leaders try to come up with a final budget agreement for the next two years with hundreds of millions of... Read More
