While we nap, the money flows
Editorial by The Charlotte Observer, December 22, 2014. This is the point to which America has evolved: Congress – or a handful of congressional leaders, at least – wants to let the very richest... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Starting a new conversation about race
We North Carolinians don't have a sterling track record in race relations -- fact of life. We need to confront that directly, honestly. We need to look behind the curtain and address a fundamental... Read More
NC Policy Watch top stories of 2014: the looming teacher shortage
Editor’s note: During the holidays, NC Policy Watch is taking a look back at 2014 by featuring some of our top news stories and commentaries from the past 12 months. We hope you will enjoy them and... Read More
5 Key factors in fracking rules
If you want a more accurate picture of energy development in NC than the mainstream media provide, check out this story in NC Capitol Connection. Let’s look at five key factors. Is NC rushing... Read More
The Christmas Conundrum: Abundance without attachment
Christmas is at our throats again.” That was the cheery yuletide greeting favored by the late English playwright Noлl Coward, commemorating the holiday after which he was named. Less contrarian... Read More
Region no longer a pacesetter
When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report on December 19, most North Carolina politicians, journalists, economists, and policy analysts immediately zeroed in on the... Read More
Driver's ed becomes an unfunded mandate
Editorial by News and Observer, December 19, 2014. That’s local-government ease for those times when the state of North Carolina tells a county or municipal government that they must do something... Read More
Some UNC centers more about politics than academics
Imagine that a UNC Center for Western Civilization (which, of course, does not exist) were to co-sponsor a conference with the Heritage Foundation. Suppose that Gov. Pat McCrory was keynote speaker... Read More
Jesse Helms and Obama's new Cuban policy
North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms received a hero’s welcome from an adoring crowd of Cuban exiles when he visited Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood in 1995 to lay a wreath at a monument to slain... Read More
NC struggles to keep up with SC in incentives race
North Carolina officials want to close the gap with South Carolina and other states that offer larger incentive packages and lower tax rates to lure companies – sometimes causing Charlotte to miss... Read More
