Like a lot of people in journalism, I began my career, briefly, as a police reporter. As the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have unfolded, I’ve found myself thinking back to those days. Nothing... Read More
Oh yes there is something new under the sun. During an evening out with several readers last week, one asked me a question I’ve never been asked before: “Are you Jewish?” Baptist, I replied... Read More
by Deon Roberts, Charlotte Observer, December 9, 2014. Look to 2015 for another year of economic growth for North Carolina, with unemployment expected to continue falling and employers forecast to... Read More
State House leaders and medical providers appear to have won the latest round in the battle over Medicaid reform, but it's a debate that's far from over. Just last week, a special Medicaid reform... Read More
Federal regulators on Tuesday approved a $1.2 billion deal to allow Duke Energy Progress to buy back power plant ownership from 32 debt-saddled Eastern North Carolina towns that bought costly shares... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 8, 2014. Body cameras for police have become all the rage following controversial police shootings in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere around the country. That... Read More
Correct ideas are not always popular ones. I freely admit that most North Carolinians favor increasing the legal minimum wage, through either congressional or legislative action. Supporters believe... Read More
Last week, state officials released the first batch of transportation projects to be funded through 2025 under the new "strategic mobility formula" proposed by Gov. Pat McCrory and approved by the... Read More
Parties in the Pitt County school desegregation case are back before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond this morning to argue their second appeal in three years, this time over a... Read More
Obama and the Republican Leaders in Congress are eyeball to eyeball over immigration with the President saying he’s done a fine noble deed to bring five million people out of the shadows and with... Read More
