Don't discount Internet polls
The latest poll on North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race has Republican Thom Tillis (43 percent) and Democrat Kay Hagan (42 percent) neck-and-neck, with Libertarian Sean Haugh at 5 percent and... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Let's look at some of the more interesting bills
Every two-year legislative session, N.C. General Assembly lawmakers propose laws that raise eyebrows, generate chuckles around the Legislative Building or are simply a little weird. It’s fun to... Read More
UNC System progress
When Republicans won their legislative majorities in 2010 and expanded them in 2012, they ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and reform. They’ve largely delivered on it. Tax and regulatory... Read More
Harming health care
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, September 6, 2014. Turning back the clock on four decades of advances in health care for rural, underserved communities is no way to lessen state budget... Read More
The true value of film tax credits for North Carolinians
From 1936 to 1942, photographer H. Lee Waters traveled across North Carolina shooting 16 mm silent films of the state’s people. Later, Waters would return to the town in which he’d shot a... Read More
An empty race for the US Senate
Editorial by News and Observer, September 6, 2014. The race between Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis, already stands as the most expensive Senate... Read More
'Kay' and 'Speaker Tillis'
Candidates and their advisers spend a lot of time during debate prep thinking about how to address their opponent, so it was no happenstance that Tillis called Hagan “Kay” and she called him... Read More
A costly blunder
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 6, 2014. North Carolina’s Republican leaders made a shortsighted decision in 2013 to reject Medicaid coverage for more residents. A new report by... Read More
If I were in charge of the special session
More groups keep coming out urging Gov. McCrory to call a special legislative session to expand corporate welfare programs, along with extending targeted tax credits, especially the credits for the... Read More
Constructive conservatism at work in NC
Democratic politicians and liberal activists in North Carolina are frustrated. When Republicans won the legislature in 2010 and began implementing conservative reforms, the Left pushed back forcefully... Read More
