Governor to release budget proposals today
Months before Gov. Pat McCrory set about building the spending proposal he’s set to promote on Thursday morning, its foundation shifted. A new state law has ended the decades-old practice of... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Loretta Lynch nomination shows politics as usual
Loretta Lynch, a highly regarded federal prosecutor, is likely to become the first attorney general from North Carolina in American history. Her Senate confirmation is likely to come over the... Read More
High Point Poll approvals: Obama 43%, McCrory 47%, Burr 30%, Tillis 27%
The HPU Poll finds that job approval ratings for public officials and legislatures remain relatively low while the public increasingly views the world as more dangerous for the U.S. and its people... Read More
McCrory leads Cooper by 2
PPP's newest look at the race for Governor in North Carolina finds it the closest it's been in a while- Pat McCrory leads with 43% to 41% for Roy Cooper. McCrory had led by 5-7 points on the previous... Read More
Time for NC to protect residents, not corporations
Last week we learned that federal prosecutors have charged Duke Energy for crimes related to Duke’s irresponsible storage of coal ash, which resulted in last year’s spill of 39,000 tons of the... Read More
House revises gas tax plan
House leaders rolled out a plan Tuesday to drop the state gas tax to 36 cents per gallon in April and keep it from falling below 30 cents in July. And they promised to decide – this year – how to... Read More
Unequal branch of government
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 2, 2015. North Carolina’s legislators are likely to be reminded on Wednesday why they haven’t invited the chief justice to deliver State of the Judiciary... Read More
For a balanced diet
Thank you for reading this column. It’s not just that I appreciate your interest in what I have to say. I appreciate the fact that you are reading this publication at all. According to a recent set... Read More
UNC BOG: Doing the Right's dirty work
Defunding the Poverty Center is just one small part of a bigger plan for higher ed Last week’s decision by the UNC Board of Governors to dissolve three small academic centers at UNC Chapel Hill... Read More
Education muddle
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 3, 2015. The Student Success Act replaces No Child Left Behind with “conservative reforms to restore local control and stop top-down education mandates... Read More
