NC Payroll expands 114,500 in 2014
In December, employers in North Carolina added 15,100 more payroll jobs than they cut (+0.4 percent), due entirely to hiring in the private sector. With that gain, the state ended 2014 with... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Answering Obama
It was a rare feat: Frank Luntz somehow found the twenty maddest-at-Obama people in the country and put them in a ‘focus group’ on Fox News after the President’s State of the Union speech... Read More
School choice and unaccountability week
The timing couldn’t be more perfect for this year’s “ School Choice Week,” the nationally orchestrated right-wing funded annual public relations extravaganza touting alternatives to... Read More
McCrory should look to Kerr Scott for inspiration
Gov. Pat McCrory should read the new biography of a predecessor by Julian Pleasants. It’s called “The Political Career of W. Kerr Scott, The Squire from Haw River,” and it might inspire the... Read More
A new legislative session
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 27, 2015. The N.C. General Assembly reconvenes Wednesday for its 2015 long session with budget revenues running nearly $200 million below projections and an... Read More
Intolerance, not polarization, the root of political paralysis
For the next two years, the chances are good that the U.S. government will be almost completely paralyzed. After the midterm elections, power is more perfectly divided between a president and Congress... Read More
What the Duke Chapel controversy should teach us
Ping-pong. That’s the metaphor that captures my thoughts regarding the controversy surrounding the plan to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from the bell tower of Duke Chapel. I supported the... Read More
Changes in teacher training proposed
Major changes could be coming to North Carolina’s public university teacher training programs, which have seen a precipitous drop in students in the past five years. At a daylong summit Tuesday that... Read More
State still outpaces the region
Ever since conservatives won majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly and began reducing taxes, spending, and state regulation, liberals have predicted doom. Without sufficient government... Read More
10-Point grading scale: A Trojan horse
It’s now official: Beginning with the 2015-16 school year, all North Carolina public high schools will be on a 10-point grading scale. Last week the State Board of Education approved the plan to... Read More
