Amid lobbying from superintendents and families, state education leaders will consider allowing current high school students to take advantage of a new grading scale that will make it easier to get... Read More
North Carolina lawmakers will return to the state capital later in January with a lengthy agenda, including taking another crack at Medicaid reform, considering a $1 billion highway bond, and tackling... Read More
Pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Election Day 2014, the political prognosticators began laying bets on what will happen by Election Day 2016. At the national level, attention quickly focused... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, January 3, 2015. When the N. C. General Assembly meets Jan. 14 to kick off this year’s legislative session, Tim Moore of Kings Mountain is certain to be elected House... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, January 3, 2015. The political context as the General Assembly prepares to reconvene this month is not unlike the situation in Washington. The chief executive must show... Read More
Some of the state’s highest-paid government retirees are benefiting from a supplemental fund set up by state lawmakers in 2013 so the retirees can receive pensions that otherwise would be too high... Read More
Every year I get out my crystal ball and make my predictions of what will happen in politics and government during the coming year. The fact that I am often wrong has never stopped me before and I see... Read More
There is something dangerously Orwellian about a group of UNC Board of Governors complaining about the lack of “diversity of opinion” at two centers connected to the UNC School of Law that receive... Read More
Despite major concerns and numerous unanswered questions, a special committee appointed by the State Board of Education recently recommended approval of both applicants seeking to create virtual... Read More
