In 2014, more than 14,800 children spent time in foster homes in North Carolina, with nearly 10,000 remaining in care at the end of the year. Not too many years ago, 23-year-old Marcella Middleton was... Read More
There’s been a great deal of back and forth inside the Raleigh beltline in recent days about the state revenue surplus that state leaders announced last week. To the hardliners on the Right, the... Read More
School choice remains a top education priority for the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly. While much of the focus this legislative session has been on stabilizing and expanding... Read More
Little White Lies. Outright Lies. Artful Lies. Once a bartender told a sailor on leave for the weekend, There’re a lot of prostitutes down at the bus station. Say hello to Anna if you see her... Read More
Governor McCrory says our universities’ mission is to put butts in jobs. Bill Friday believed their mission is to set minds and spirits soaring so they can make North Carolina a better place. The... Read More
Lost in all the buzz in Raleigh about the surprising state revenue surplus was a vote last week in the Senate to continue to stigmatize public schools with high percentages of low-income students and... Read More
by Cullen Browder, WRAL, May 12, 2015. From the mountains to the coast, road construction is constant in North Carolina. But keeping up with demand is nearly impossible for the state Department of... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, May 12, 2015. The University of North Carolina became America’s first public university in 1789, and in the past several decades the state has built arguably the... Read More
There are two competing political narratives on the state’s budget picture. The question is whether voters will buy either one. When a budget surplus was predicted last week, Democrats and... Read More
Republicans are crowing about the $400 million surplus while progressives are griping. The GOP should be given credit. They used conservative estimates in their budget projections because of the... Read More
