Extending the benefits debate
Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote a piece for The New York Times a couple of weeks ago that was partly a response to a previous... Read More
NC Spin Articles
A cynical new age for college athletics
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, August 11, 2014. Too often in America today events meet the lowered expectations of our more cynical natures. Case in point, this statement last week by University... Read More
What to do
Over lunch Mickey and Minnie were talking about Governor McCrory’s statement last week on the influx of child immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Mickey was outraged. “McCrory... Read More
Hidden changes
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 12, 2014. On the day the state Senate adopted the budget, Jeff Jackson from Charlotte stood to debate the bill. He complained that the 260-page spending... Read More
Legislators change the way the state funds enrollment growth
There appears to be some confusion and displeasure about a provision that changes the way that budget writers construct the education budget. The issue boils down to when and where to include... Read More
Liberal hypocrisy on state taxes
This news article about changes to NC's film industry tax credit program not only highlights the obvious, but illustrates how ridiculous progressive liberals sound when they try to argue against... Read More
5 State budget details you might not have heard
By now, you've probably heard that the $21 billion state budget for 2014-15 gives teachers raises and doesn't cut thousands of people off of Medicaid, as once proposed. But the budget, signed last... Read More
Consumers remain in holding pattern
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, August 8, 2014. About a month ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures about how states are faring five years after the end of the Great Recession. To... Read More
Defining marriage
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, August 10, 2014. Make no mistake. State Attorney General Roy Cooper never liked North Carolina’s constitutional amendment that opposes gay marriage. Passed... Read More
Pay reform meets student needs
Critics of the Republican-led General Assembly allege that the teacher-pay raise included in this year’s state budget could have been implemented in a much simpler fashion: by giving across-the... Read More
