Earlier this week, Gov. Pat McCrory touted North Carolina's population growth during 2014. The state increased by 95,047 residents from July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2014, to become the country's ninth... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 27, 2014. Republican state legislators who enacted a major tax overhaul last year aren’t done. Not by a long shot. The first round of tax reform was... Read More
Editor’s note: During the holidays, NC Policy Watch is taking a look back at 2014 by featuring some of our top news stories and commentaries from the past 12 months. We hope you will enjoy them and... Read More
The U.S. economy continues to recover from the depths of the Great Recession, and North Carolina continues to recover at a faster rate than the national average. But few would describe the general... Read More
I want to help improve public school education, but it is plagued by so many problems, I don’t know where to start. No one does. Problems? What problems are you talking about? I’m referring to low... Read More
Column from The Rocky Mount Telegram, December 24, 2014. Editor’s note: The Rocky Mount Telegram is pleased to reprint what has become a holiday favorite in the Rocky Mount area: the ill-fated... Read More
Column first run in 1897 in the New York Sun, published in the Greenville Daily Reflector, December 24, 2014. In 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church, an editor at The (New York) Sun, penned an editorial... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 24, 2014. ’Twas the night before Christmas And all through the sound Not a creature was stirring, Not even a flound(r). – Anonymous If there is an old... Read More
Editor’s note: During the holidays, NC Policy Watch is taking a look back at 2014 by featuring some of our top news stories and commentaries from the past 12 months. We hope you will enjoy them and... Read More
When we sat down to our annual Christmas lunch our group of old white conservative men were looking care-worn and weary;---they’d voted against gay marriage and won and a year and a half later gays... Read More
