Numbers you should know about Obamacare in NC
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
NC Spin Articles
Debating incentives
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
"We're from opposing parties, but we agree on this"
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
Report: State spends $160,000 a year to lock up a young person
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
Tests are next step in coal ash cleanup
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
The seed of wickedness
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
NC's bad decisions two years after Sandy Hook
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
Acknowledging challenges of serving as a police officer
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
Kay Hagan has nobody to blame but herself
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
