Fewer NC students aspire to teach
No one could talk Gary McDermott out of teaching. The 29-year-old is drawn to the profession and he's determined to stick with it. "Some people say they wouldn't recommend this to anyone. But I try... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Another maddening misstatement by the governor
Governor Pat McCrory is starting 2014 the way he spent much of 2013—by apparently making up facts to defend his unpopular policies. WRAL-TV reports that McCrory told Tom Campbell of NC SPIN this... Read More
McCrory won't call special session
Saying it would be “counterproductive and a waste of taxpayer money,” Gov. Pat McCrory announced Friday that he would not call the legislature back to Raleigh as many have asked him to do. The... Read More
Many unknowns as private organization takes over job recruiting
By this time next month, a private, nonprofit corporation will have opened its doors at a small office building in Cary with a big mission — recruiting jobs to North Carolina and promoting the... Read More
Rush to war
A shadowy terrorist group with Dark Ages savagery and Digital Age media savvy beheads two journalists and posts a video. So – 13 years to the day after 9/11 – we’re off to war! Talking TV... Read More
Be calm, don't worry
Back in 1939 (when a varmint was on the loose) there was hardly a mother, father or wife around who felt enough fear or saw any good reason to send their sons or husbands to Europe to fight what... Read More
The problem is the leaking ponds, not the commission
Raleigh was abuzz this week with the decision by Governor Pat McCrory to let the coal ash legislation passed by the General Assembly this summer become law without his signature. McCrory told a... Read More
The death penalty, luck and innocence
In the aftermath of the freeing last week of two wrongfully convicted North Carolina inmates, one from death row, the views of two Robeson County district attorneys who played central roles in the... Read More
A crying shame
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 12, 2014. Somebody, please, pass Jerry Richardson a tissue. The Carolina Panthers’ owner teared up in Charlotte Wednesday while accepting “the Echo... Read More
New NC election laws suppress voters
Editorial by News and Observer, September 11, 2014. Thanks to changes in election laws drawn by Republicans, 454 provisional ballots cast in the May primary in North Carolina were rejected. Those... Read More
