Making transparency a top priority
There are some really good things on the table as the budget conferees discuss, debate, compromise, and finalize North Carolina’s government spending for the next two years. Allocating more than... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NC should turn its eyes to Kentucky
In 2011 our North Carolina Legislature refused to expand Medicaid to cover more of North Carolina’s “working poor” citizens under the Affordable Care Act enacted by Congress and signed into law... Read More
Budget stalemate stymying schools' efforts to get ready for another year
With a stopgap spending measure in place, some lawmakers believe efforts to get schools prepared for the new year are humming along as the General Assembly battles over a final two year budget plan... Read More
Voting rights is still a struggle
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act. Passed in 1965, this landmark legislation made the promise of the vote real for millions of Americans who had been excluded from... Read More
New DHHS head must put agency on right track
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 5, 2015. The resignation Wednesday of Dr. Aldona Wos, the embattled secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, was as overdue as it was... Read More
Good heart, bad fit
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 6, 2015. When Greensboro resident Aldona Wos was appointed secretary of the state Department of Health & Human Services, she agreed to a yearly salary of... Read More
Senate offers slimmed-down budget deal
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, August 5, 2015. State Senate leaders announced Wednesday they're willing to remove several major policy items from their budget plan in order to restart stalled negotiations... Read More
In praise of budget slowness
Democrats are surely and sorely tempted to blast Republican legislators for dallying and delaying the budget. Not so fast, my friends. Here, slow is good. Especially after Senate Capo Tom Apodaca... Read More
Bond proposal pushes the overdue budget out of the spotlight
The big story this week in the General Assembly is not the remarkably quiet budget negotiations between the House and Senate as August 14th approaches, the day that the continuing resolution keeping... Read More
Medicaid finishes fiscal year end with $130 million cash on hand
North Carolina's Medicaid agency said Tuesday that it had good financial news at the close of the second consecutive fiscal year, again registering a positive cash balance. The leftover funds may help... Read More
