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
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
MOBILE, Ala. — It’s been noticed by just about everyone except what we call the “liberal establishment” that of the eight Senate seats now up for grabs, four are in the South – Arkansas... Read More
RALEIGH — The state’s most recent gun law may allow concealed firearms at this year’s N.C. State Fair, where they have been forbidden for decades. Grass Roots North Carolina, an advocate group... Read More
RALEIGH — There’s a difference between drones and the remote-controlled airplanes hobbyists enjoy. So notes a new law effective Wednesday that firms up the definition of “unmanned aircraft... Read More
RALEIGH — The first and only time I ever helped take a political survey was during my undergraduate days at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill back in the 1980s. I was one of many... Read More
A party that denies citizens their constitutional right to vote is a party that deserves to lose. That’s the Republican Party today. The party of Lincoln and TR has become the party of Block the... Read More
Last Friday afternoon, during my regular stint as a guest on a local conservative radio talk show, the subject of the day was Congressman Robert Pittenger and his recent, headline-grabbing statements... Read More
Editorial published in the Jacksonville Daily News, September 29, 2014. North Carolina taxpayers have spent more than $7.2 million on consultants for the department that administers Medicaid and other... Read More
Editorial published in the Winston-Salem Journal, September 29, 2014. It’s hard to overstate the travesty that occurred in March when a North Carolina inmate with mental illness died of thirst. Only... Read More
