Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, December 10, 2014. Here’s a scary thought experiment: How many communities in the country do you think hold a favorable view of the cost of their utilities? Our... Read More
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, December 10, 2014. The draft State Transportation Improvement Program allocates about $15 billion through 2025 on more than 550 road, aviation and public transit... Read More
New fact sheet: “The Affordable Care Act is working in North Carolina” [Editor’s note: Health policy experts at the Washington, DC-based Center for American Progress released the following... Read More
Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post used to say: “I come in every day with an empty bucket, and somebody fills it up.” Some days I come in with an empty blog, but TAPsters (readers, commentators... Read More
Last month, North Carolinians went to the polls to have their say. Slightly over half of us cast our votes for a Republican to be our representative in Congress. A little less than half of us voted... Read More
North Carolina is spending almost $160,000 a year to incarcerate a young person, according to a new report released Tuesday. But the state has made significant strides in reducing the number of... Read More
Environmental regulators don't know enough about the extent of groundwater contamination at coal ash plants across the state to determine which ones pose the biggest threat, a legislative commission... Read More
Generally speaking it looks folks see the riots in Missouri two ways – Jim Martin who serves on the local School Board gave an example in the newspaper of one way: After the riots he explained to... Read More
Sunday marks the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings in Newtown, Connecticut when a man with untreated mental illness killed 27 people, 20 of them young children sitting in... Read More
