Eye opening expenses from DHHS
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, September 16, 2014. North Carolina taxpayers have spent more than $7.2 million on consultants for the department that administers Medicaid and other human services... Read More
NC Spin Articles
No love lost here
First Governor McCrory compared Senator Phil Berger to Tony Rand, Marc Basnight and Harry Reid. Then, McCrory said he wouldn’t call the legislature back into session because “after a lengthy... Read More
The McCrory subplot in the Senate race
The heated battle between for a U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, has unfolded as most political... Read More
DHHS' outside consultation is too costly
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, September 16, 2014. The state Department of Health and Human Services is troubled, to say the least, and has been for some time. Discovering that DHHS continues to... Read More
Hagan continues to lead by 4 points
PPP's newest North Carolina Senate poll finds the race steady compared to a month ago. Kay Hagan continues to lead by 4 points, with 44% to 40% for Thom Tillis and 5% for Libertarian Sean Haugh. Haugh... Read More
Governor may have burned bridges by not calling special session
In a video posted online Friday afternoon, Gov. Pat McCrory, smiling throughout, announced he wouldn’t call legislators back to Raleigh this year to consider new economic development incentives or... Read More
Can politics be made clean?
The idea of ethical politics seems today to be an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms – sort of like civil war or diet chocolate cake. Doctors and lawyers have codes of conduct. So do many... Read More
State raised school funding
Just before Labor Day, the publicly available polls of likely voters had incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan roughly tied with her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis. Since Labor Day, the polling average... Read More
Women and men
More telling than Kay Hagan’s overall lead in the polls may be her overwhelming lead with women. According to a Rasmussen Poll last week, Hagan leads Thom Tillis by six points, 45-39. But then it... Read More
Not a combat mission
It turns out not having ‘boots on the ground’ isn’t quite what it seems. The other day when the President said he was sending 425 more soldiers to Iraq he added, These American forces will not... Read More
