Gaming Medicaid
As North Carolina lawmakers recognize that funding a problem does not solve a problem, the legislature has vetoed Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion. Rather, fixing Medicaid’s broken system... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Press release from NC General Assembly on 4th Circuit Ruling
Published in The Locker Room, The John Locke Foundation's Statewide Issues Blog, October 1, 2014. This press release was just sent from the North Carolina General Assembly. If you want to contact... Read More
State Board of Ed to vote on 10 point grading system
Wake County school leaders who’ve been pushing for the state to switch to a 10-point scale for high school grading could get their wish today. As noted in today’s Charlotte Observer article by... Read More
US Court of Appeals blocks two provisions of NC elections law for November
RALEIGH — Hours after a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling brought clarity about which parts of a 2013 election law would apply to the coming election, Gov. Pat McCrory and legislative leaders... Read More
Stop dwelling on the past
ALEIGH — As incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan and Republican challenger Thom Tillis have battled to represent North Carolina for the next six years in Washington, their messages have focused on... Read More
Why Hagan won
Yes, there’s still five weeks to go. Yes, anything can happen. But the story of this race is likely to be that Thom Tillis lost it when he stayed Speaker in this year’s legislative session... Read More
NC Universities shine nationally
Opinion by The Times-News, October 1, 2014. We spend a lot of time these days bragging about Elon University. It seems a week doesn’t go by when the campus isn’t being decorated with one award or... Read More
Seven more under-recognized bad decisions by General Assembly
Last week we told you about seven bad decisions made by the General Assembly that have received very little attention amid all the back and forth about education cuts, the refusal to expand Medicaid... Read More
Lottery tries to juggle tickets, prizes, schools
For every dollar spent on the N.C. Education Lottery in the latest fiscal year, slightly more than a quarter – 27.3 cents – came back to the state for education. In this fiscal year, which ends... Read More
Elmers leads Aiken in Civitas Poll
RALEIGH – U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers leads challenger Clay Aiken by 8 percentage points in their race for House District 2, according to a new Civitas Flash Poll released today by the Civitas Institute... Read More
