A revealing moment in the incentive debate
Something fascinating happened during this week’s House debate over economic incentive programs for businesses that could have a bigger impact on the state than whatever incentives the General... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Gasoline tax needs its own tuneup
Editorial by Rocky Mount, Telegram, March 4, 2015. The N.C. General Assembly is wrangling over competing bills in the N.C. House and N.C. Senate aimed at raising the state’s gasoline tax to help... Read More
Pivot back to capitalism
Over the past four years, state policymakers in Raleigh have adopted a series of sweeping changes in public policy, including a new state tax code, school choice, new energy policies, election laws... Read More
McCrory: State should stay out of local government
The state should not interfere with local governments, Gov. Pat McCrory said Tuesday. He made that comment when News & Record Editorial Editor Allen Johnson asked him for his opinion of state Sen... Read More
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
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
