A smoker of two packs of cigarettes a day, Karen Carlton is looking at a $684 monthly health insurance bill starting in January. Her affection for Misty Menthol Silvers will cost Carlton $114 a month... Read More
Talk about a fellow being star-crossed – after the election as everyone took a deep breath and settled back peacefully for Thanksgiving the Governor, without a lot of hoopla, quietly launched his... Read More
You know it was a bad story when somebody says at breakfast, “Did Senator Hagan know she was being quoted when she said that about Obama?” We don’t know. But we do know that Hagan’s... Read More
McCrory’s short memory about the length of campaigns It was just a month ago that Governor Pat McCrory complained in a post midterm election interview about the almost constant cycle of... Read More
When the news broke that Rep. Tim Moore would be the Republican nominee for speaker of the North Carolina House and Rep. Mike Hager would be majority leader, the usual suspects did the usual things... Read More
About two decades ago, WRAL and WTVD ran a story about a young woman, Beverly Jones, who’d donated one of her kidneys to her husband whose kidneys had failed. Now usually, kidney donors have to be... Read More
State Senator Ralph Hise has an odd definition of impossible. Hise said after a recent meeting of a legislative study committee meeting on Medicaid that expanding the program in North Carolina under... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 4, 2014. Starving its cities will not propel North Carolina to economic success. Those cities – places like Charlotte, Raleigh, Wilmington and much... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, December 4, 2014. Researchers at Duke University recently established what North Carolina Democrats already know too well: The GOP-drawn redistricting maps are... Read More
The UNC system’s $2.57 billion budget request to the legislature for next year asks for a 1.9 percent increase, with a short list of priorities, such as research, an infusion for the state’s two... Read More
