He gets no respect
He’d been through, he said, the ordeal of sitting for a whole hour and fifteen minutes under hot lights, sweating, answering questions but then, he added, when he saw the interview on TV he had... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Say yes, already
Editorial Greensboro News-Record, December 18, 2014. One of the best policy decisions North Carolina can make in 2015 is to expand Medicaid coverage. The foolishness of refusing to do so already is... Read More
Public pension reforms on the way?
Sean Higgins reports for the Washington Examiner that a new Republican-led U.S. Senate could instigate changes for state and local public pension programs. The incoming Republican majority in the... Read More
NC to join 32 other states that don't fund driver's ed
Wake County school leaders (and likely school leaders across the state) are up in arms about the state's elimination of funding for driver's ed programs. Wake County school leaders warned Tuesday... Read More
What's the counterargument to justice for all?
There is something dangerously Orwellian about a group of UNC Board of Governors complaining about the lack of “diversity of opinion” at two centers connected to the UNC School of Law that receive... Read More
McCrory blasts Associated Press
The day after a wire service reported that North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory received a six-figure stock payout from an online mortgage broker that is regulated by the state, the governor’s emphatic... Read More
NC's Congressional power shortage
When Republican Sen. Richard Burr becomes chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, it will be the first major Senate committee chairmanship held by a Tar Heel since the retirement of... Read More
To help the poor or boost self-image
by Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, December 18, 2014. What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler: Why do those who seem most... Read More
The devastating legacy of McCrory's empty 2013 promise
The stories are coming fast and furious now. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that schools in Rockingham County, the home of Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, don’t have enough textbooks to go... Read More
Revenue collection a growing concern
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, December 16, 2014. There are two measures by which to judge tax reform. The first is to count the money we have left in our pockets at the end of the day. The second... Read More
