State senators and House members could spend the coming weeks debating income taxes and spending levels after the House’s budget proposal – released Monday – highlighted divisions between... Read More
A House budget document sent to House Finance Committee members Sunday night includes sections focused on proposed new debt along with tax and fee changes being considered for the 2015 state budget... Read More
The General Fund budget proposal released Monday by GOP state House leaders for the two-year budget cycle starting July 1 would increase spending by nearly $1 billion more than the increase... Read More
North Carolina voters think the University of North Carolina system is too expensive. That’s one key finding of a recent poll by the Civitas Institute. When asked about the amount of state... Read More
The N.C. Hospital Association is wading into the debate about state Medicaid reform, predictably encouraging a provider-led format to address the risk involved in the $14 billion program. At the... Read More
Call me a starry-eyed optimist. I don’t assume that those who disagree with me about school reform are out to destroy the education system. I assume they share my goal of expanding educational... Read More
Is it too early to start putting the 2016 presidential election in historical perspective? Maybe. But it is never too early to ask presidential historian and UNC-Chapel Hill emeritus history... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, May 15, 2015. The Times-News has opposed taxpayer-funded incentives to private businesses for years. The truth is we detest the practice. But in the sometimes... Read More
Around the turn of the 20th century, Julius Rosenwald was building Sears, Robuck and Co. into the mail-order behemoth that embedded itself in American culture as that century’s Amazon.com. In the... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, May 15, 2015. "The public records and public information compiled by the agencies of North Carolina government or its subdivisions are the property of the people... Read More
