The State Board of Education had tough questions Wednesday for two for-profit virtual education companies in line to receive millions in public money to teach children through their home computers... Read More
Don’t look now, but Republican legislative leaders don’t seem any more inclined to listen to Governor Pat McCrory this year than they did the first two years of his administration. McCrory told a... Read More
by Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, January 9, 2015. North Carolina's film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production... Read More
The Tea Party is over. Mitch McConnell is telling his new members not to worry about primaries from the right. He says the establishment beat Tea Party opponents in 2014 and they’ll beat them again... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 9, 2015. Will leadership fiddle while the economy burns? That may happen when the new session of the General Assembly opens next month. Gov. Pat McCrory is... Read More
Should states spend billions to reduce class size? That’s the question Amelia Thomson DeVeaux of the popular data and statistics web site Five Thirty-Eight asks in an article of the same name... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, January 8, 2015. Knowledgeable, respected and popular among Republican state lawmakers, Richard Stevens is a fine choice to lobby for the interests of Wake County in... Read More
The State Board of Education voted Thursday to switch all high school students to the new 10-point grading scale this fall, reversing its previous decision to phase in the change during the next three... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 7, 2015. Politicians imposed a 30-year time limit on sea-level forecasts for North Carolina’s coast, but the scientists made their point anyway. Sea... Read More
Critics of Republican leadership in the General Assembly are often quick to use words such as "extreme" to describe policies pushed by the majority. Republicans use the same rhetoric about Democrats... Read More
