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
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 24, 2015. Defenders of the Confederate battle flag say it represents heritage, states’ rights and rebellion against authority. It stands for none of those... Read More
For the proposed decrease to be a net decrease means, of course, that some factors are on the increase, but their effects are outweighed by the factors on the decrease. So let’s examine the... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory plans to ask the N.C. General Assembly to pass a law that would end the use of the Confederate battle flag on specialty license plates issued by the state. McCrory spokesman Josh... Read More
by Emily Cahn and Niels Lesnlewski, Roll Call, June 23, 2015. Former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan will not be mounting a challenge to her former GOP colleague, Sen. Richard M. Burr. Hagan, who... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, June 23, 2015. North Carolina Republicans did a startling and uncharacteristic thing last week: In the face of a potentially unfavorable legal outcome, they gutted a... Read More
In nearly three decades of writing a syndicated column on North Carolina politics and government, I’ve always received reader response. Back in the day, I’d get an occasional phone call or... Read More
