The intensity of the legislative debate over reform of the state’s $14 billion Medicaid program grew more heated with the introduction of several bills that conflict with their missions. The program... Read More
Proposed legislation in the North Carolina Senate would shift the cost of remediation classes at community colleges to the counties where the students who need them graduated from high school. The... Read More
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, March 28, 2015. Farmland is precious. North Carolina needs to do everything it can to stem the loss of land used to produce food. Between 2007 and 2012, North... Read More
Economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell — a North Carolina native, by the way — is fond of denying that there are permanent solutions to problems. Instead, he insists, “there are only... Read More
Names have changed, but the ideas driving the NC conservative movement are distressingly familiar Professor Gene Nichol, the outspoken UNC Chapel Hill Law School professor and anti-poverty warrior who... Read More
Going back to the days of Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, Young Democrats were a breeding ground for extraordinary leaders. But the current crop may become the best ever. I spent several hours in... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 30,2015. After being elected as a moderate and signing a raft of high-profile conservative legislation into law, we’ve all figured Gov. Pat McCrory would be... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory told a Charlotte radio host Monday that he opposes a bill that would allow magistrates to opt out of performing weddings and didn't see the need for a broader religious freedom bill... Read More
The state House and Senate gave tentative approval on Monday to a bill that would drop the state's gas tax by 1.5 cents per gallon, with leaders in both chambers saying they needed to ensure the short... Read More
Are the Republican-led tax reform efforts of the past couple of years "unraveling"? Not yet – at least not in any major way. But that word is getting used increasingly in debates as the General... Read More
