A snapshot of the lottery's progress
The N.C. Education Lottery is the only state-run lottery in the country to increase sales and profits each year of its existence, according to a recent audit. It's also one of the youngest lotteries... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Tom Ross: The real value of higher education
America is losing her way with regard to higher education. We seem to have forgotten the real value of higher education – both to our economy and to our society. We have become too focused on... Read More
Reformer: McCrory ethics updates 'amazing'
In the two years he has been governor, Pat McCrory should have filed only two disclosure statements to the state’s Ethics Commission detailing his various economic interests. McCrory has now filed... Read More
Operatives recycle Hagan claim
I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan’s reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015 or the... Read More
How the GOP plans to overturn Wake elections
The morning after November’s election, as we read the morning newspaper over coffee, my wife noted with surprise that the Wake County Board of Commissioners had switched from Republican to... Read More
Pro and con: Should NC Supreme Court OK school vouchers
Bill Anderson says no, there’s no way to hold private schools accountable. Darrell Allison says yes, some public schools are failing and we need to give all kids a chance. Bill Anderson Dr. Bill... Read More
Shameless in Raleigh
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 15, 2015. In a statement laced with equal parts gall and hypocrisy, state Sen. Trudy Wade last week lauded her bill that would shrink and reconfigure the... Read More
McCrory's blind spots on ethics
In his first run for governor in 2008, Pat McCrory fixed on a theme that would prove successful in his second try in 2012. He ran against what he considered the cloaked and unethical conduct of... Read More
Who and what do you believe
Last week two men claimed they had been robbed of about $5 million worth of gold bars they were transporting along I-95 in Wilson County. According to their story, when they pulled over on I-95 to fix... Read More
Hate online
The Internet, social media and cable TV may make us more informed, but they also make us more inflamed. And more apt to go down in flames. Frat boys sing a racist song, it goes viral and they are... Read More
