Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, June 20, 2015. State lawmakers likely have a long road ahead of them in forging a compromise version of the competing budgets approved by the N.C. House and Senate... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, June 20, 2015. Vidant Medical Center President Brian Floyd offered an update this week on the evolving role of Vidant in a rapidly changing political and... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 21, 2015. Packing together Greensboro and Trinity election bills wasn’t the only sausage-stuffing the state Senate has done lately. It also added major tax... Read More
Two key political voices said they believe they can block a controversial proposal to redistribute sales tax revenue in North Carolina. Gov. Pat McCrory and Rep. Bill Brawley (R-Mecklenburg) say they... Read More
Unexpected victory for voting rights The Senate budget might not have been the most important story of the week, as absurd and regressive as it was. We sort of knew that was coming. What was... Read More
On the heels of hundreds of citizen complaints at voter ID hearings across the state, and after years of mounting public and legal pressure, we are pleased that the NC General Assembly has decided to... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, June 19, 2015. Republican leaders in the state Senate are betting on sales-tax revenues to keep North Carolina's government afloat for the next few years. It's a bad... Read More
There's some interesting stuff going on in the Health and Human Services portion of the Senate's proposed budget -- including, but not limited to, allowing contracts to expire, dismantling... Read More
Which Generation of NC Voters will Dominate 2016 Politics? One of two politically valuable studies of the generational makeup of the 2016 electorate in North Carolina was published Wednesday, June... Read More
Among several differences between the House and Senate budget proposals is the Senate's inclusion of an elimination of North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) laws. Matt Caulder at Capitol... Read More
