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
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
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
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
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
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
Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together. These words, spoken by Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry, can equally apply to the monumental steps the N.C. General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory took this... Read More
With N.C. Budget Director Art Pope stepping down from his post effective Sept. 5, his replacement for the job, Raleigh banker Lee Roberts, says he is already getting settled in. Roberts has been... Read More
The release from prison this week of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, two Robeson County half-brothers wrongly incarcerated for 30 years for a rape and murder they did not commit, has made national and... Read More
Increased patient engagement, more collaboration with providers and the continued move toward paying for quality, not just quantity, are a recipe for helping control health care costs over the long... Read More
