North Carolina’s jobless rate fell to 5.8 percent in November, the lowest since May 2008, as the state’s economy gains force in the second half of the year. The state’s jobless rate fell from... Read More
Twelve months after hearing arguments in the case, the N.C. Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday upholding the Republican-led redrawing of state congressional and legislative districts in 2011. But... Read More
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a convicted killer serving a life sentence under a 40-year-old law cannot use credits for good behavior to reduce the length of his sentence. The... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, December 18, 2014. In our continuing debate over how well our public schools serve our children and the community, politicians and others obsess over ways to gauge... Read More
Excerpt from a speech U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made on the Senate floor regarding bank regulations in the omnibus budget bill: Democrats don’t like Wall Street bailouts. Republicans... Read More
About a week ago the Governor went on a tear about 60 Minutes, saying Leslie Stahl had done him wrong; that he’d sat sweating under the hot lights for an hour answering questions but she hadn’t... Read More
It’s the time of the year when newspapers and websites and television talk shows are busy with their year-in-review features, looking back at the people and events of 2014 with many of them picking... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 19, 2014. North Carolina has plenty of money to pay for effective smoking-prevent programs. It just chooses to spend it on other things. Our state slipped... Read More
The front-page news story “ Tree.com payouts to McCrory questioned” on a stock payout to Gov. Pat McCrory is a new all-time low and smacks of biased reporting by The Associated Press. The... Read More
It was a game of runs in state and federal courts here in 2014 as state lawmakers pulled out all stops and spent millions in taxpayer’s dollars to stave off challenges to their conservative agenda... Read More
