Recently, a new dean attended a faculty meeting with the best of intentions and honestly said matters would get worse before getting better regarding budget cuts to higher education in North Carolina... Read More
The recently concluded North Carolina Senate race provides a vivid example of why it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation about gun ownership in America. The National Rifle Association and... Read More
Some two-score years ago, I started going to the National Governors Association winter meetings in Washington. These were at the time great bipartisan policy wonk-fests, three days of earnest... Read More
Governor Pat McCrory’s new private nonprofit shadow Commerce Department announced its full roster of board members this week and the news was dutifully reported by the media across the state—but... Read More
Carter and I spoke Wednesday at a post-election panel sponsored by the Public School Forum, a group of education advocates. I suggested they have nothing to worry about in the coming legislature... Read More
t might not be a surprise given the decisions made by the General Assembly in the four years, but North Carolina faces a teacher shortage in the not too distant future and lawmakers keep doing things... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, November 14, 2014. Running out of money for economic development grants is good news for North Carolina. It means businesses are creating, or promising to create... Read More
Well before the N.C. General Assembly voted to repeal local business privilege-license taxes last spring, the 540 cities, towns and villages that make up the North Carolina League of Municipalities... Read More
Ambitious Republican legislators are clamoring to fill the top job in the state House left vacant by U.S. Sen.-elect Thom Tillis. The House speaker is one of the most powerful people in state... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory and two past governors on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the legislature’s authority to create commissions and appoint members that encroach on executive branch functions. The... Read More
