Democrats celebrated in November when they swept Wake County elections. It was one of the few decisive victories achieved by Democrats in North Carolina. All four Democratic candidates won with at... Read More
McCrory signed legislation to enact a new gas tax rate. While the current gas tax was 37.5ў per gallon and the new legislation drops it to 36ў, which is technically a decrease in the rate. What... Read More
In 2013 North Carolina approved legislation to assign performance grades for all North Carolina public schools. The legislation required the Department of Public Instruction to assign letter grades (A... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 1, 2015. Pat McCrory doesn’t want to put on Mike Pence’s shoes. The ones with banana peels for soles. Indiana’s Republican governor awkwardly tried to... Read More
orth Carolina’s presidential preference primary would be held March 8, 2016, under House Bill 457, filed by Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, in a move intended to prevent the state from losing... Read More
As opposition to a new Religious Freedom Restoration Act appeared to grow, N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore Tuesday signaled that lawmakers will take a hard look at its potential fallout. Moore called an... Read More
The intensity of the legislative debate over reform of the state’s $14 billion Medicaid program grew more heated with the introduction of several bills that conflict with their missions. The program... Read More
Proposed legislation in the North Carolina Senate would shift the cost of remediation classes at community colleges to the counties where the students who need them graduated from high school. The... Read More
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, March 28, 2015. Farmland is precious. North Carolina needs to do everything it can to stem the loss of land used to produce food. Between 2007 and 2012, North... Read More
Economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell — a North Carolina native, by the way — is fond of denying that there are permanent solutions to problems. Instead, he insists, “there are only... Read More
