No insurance increase for NC homeowners
by abc11.com, December 19, 2014. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has ordered a zero-percent statewide overall average change in homeowners insurance rates, effective June... Read More
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NC unemployment rate at 5.8%, lowest since May 2008
North Carolina’s jobless rate fell to 5.8 percent in November, the lowest since May 2008, as the state’s economy gains force in the second half of the year. The state’s jobless rate fell from... Read More
Supreme Court upholds legislative, Congressional districts
Twelve months after hearing arguments in the case, the N.C. Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday upholding the Republican-led redrawing of state congressional and legislative districts in 2011. But... Read More
Supreme Court: Life means life
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a convicted killer serving a life sentence under a 40-year-old law cannot use credits for good behavior to reduce the length of his sentence. The... Read More
Grading idea flunks
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, December 18, 2014. In our continuing debate over how well our public schools serve our children and the community, politicians and others obsess over ways to gauge... Read More
Elizabeth Warren: Enough is enough on bailouts
Excerpt from a speech U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made on the Senate floor regarding bank regulations in the omnibus budget bill: Democrats don’t like Wall Street bailouts. Republicans... Read More
Maybe not the best idea
About a week ago the Governor went on a tear about 60 Minutes, saying Leslie Stahl had done him wrong; that he’d sat sweating under the hot lights for an hour answering questions but she hadn’t... Read More
The obvious newsmaker of the year for North Carolina
It’s the time of the year when newspapers and websites and television talk shows are busy with their year-in-review features, looking back at the people and events of 2014 with many of them picking... Read More
Up in smoke
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 19, 2014. North Carolina has plenty of money to pay for effective smoking-prevent programs. It just chooses to spend it on other things. Our state slipped... Read More
McCrory a man of honesty
The front-page news story “ Tree.com payouts to McCrory questioned” on a stock payout to Gov. Pat McCrory is a new all-time low and smacks of biased reporting by The Associated Press. The... Read More
