In less than five months, North Carolina’s flagship business recruitment tool is scheduled to sunset. Since 2003, the Job Development Investment Grant program (JDIG) has played a key role in... Read More
A new found expeditiousness about the overdue budget There finally seems to be some urgency to pass a budget at the General Assembly, six weeks after it was due and just a week before school starts... Read More
Wednesday’s Charlotte Talks will speak with Kristen Soltis Anderson, author of “The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America,” along with a researcher from the Pew Research Center... Read More
NOTE: This week the NC Senate approved a Taxpayer Protection Act that would enact restraints on the annual growth rate of the state budget. (For more on the legislation, go to NC Capitol Connection... Read More
Senator Tom Apodaca was partially right Wednesday afternoon when he lamented the inability of legislative leaders to reach a final agreement on a state budget six weeks after it was due and just days... Read More
A couple weeks ago, Democrats were having difficulty landing just one candidate to go up against Richard Burr. Now, they might have multiple. No one’s officially declared yet, but several folks have... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, August 13, 2015. We’re tempted to say, enough already. The General Assembly is unconscionably overdue in passing a state budget for a fiscal year that began six weeks... Read More
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
