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
Editorial by the Greensboro News and Record, September 29, 2014. Most members of the science panel studying sea levels along North Carolina’s coast are … scientists. This might not have been... Read More
Editorial by the News and Record, September 28, 2014. Duke Energy didn’t finish cleaning up the Dan River. Nor its reputation. It pledged at least another $2 million to the effort last week, part of... Read More
Editorial cartoon by John Cole, published in NC Policy Watch, September 29, 2014. http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2014/09/29/thirsting-for-compassion/ Read More
The American health care system is going through a once-in-a-lifetime transformation. Many of these changes are for the better. In the state of North Carolina, these changes are playing out in ways... Read More
