How do we pay for infrastructure?
My wife recently bought a new car. Well, not exactly “new new,” but “newly used.” Some experts say this is the best way to purchase vehicles, because you get an almost-new car without... Read More
NC Spin Articles
An education agenda for 2015
Now that the North Carolina General Assembly has convened its 2015 session, let’s look at what legislators have done over the last four years to improve our public schools and consider what they... Read More
Three leaders, but how many agendas?
One of the most interesting moments of the 2014 legislative session came in front of the Executive Mansion late last June, when Governor Pat McCrory and House Speaker Thom Tillis appeared together... Read More
State education board right to keep political bias out of history lessons
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, January 12, 2015. We all want our state’s children to receive an education that imparts to them a sense of civic pride and responsibility, but we don’t want... Read More
Will Republicans misinterpret the mandate of 2014
When the second highest ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate says, “We blew it,” I sit up and take notice. Such was the case on November 25, 2014, when U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New... Read More
Medicaid coverage does not equal access to healthcare
Last week I posted an article discussing the shortage of doctors treating Medicaid patients in NC and how that would undermine claims that expanding Medicaid would create jobs. Medicaid rolls in... Read More
Take from the rich, give to the poor?
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 12, 2015. Take from the rich, give to the poor. That’s not a mantra you typically hear coming from North Carolina’s conservative Republican lawmakers. But... Read More
NC cities look at ways to strengthen revenue base
As the Republican-led General Assembly has moved to simplify and lower the state's tax structure in recent years, local governments have often found themselves on the back foot – politically and... Read More
Democrats hope to avoid further defections
When a state House member from the Outer Banks changed his political party to unaffiliated last week, it represented one more blow for an endangered species at the legislature: the rural, moderate... Read More
UNC policy on race draws lawsuit
Another wave of bad publicity and legal questions isn’t what the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill needs right now. But that’s exactly what the school is getting, thanks to its... Read More
