Smart voters
Everybody has a theory about why Eric Cantor lost, one that usually reflects their overall theory about politics: It was about immigration. Cantor was aloof and arrogant. The Tea Party is still a... Read More
NC Spin Articles
College sports nears a day of reckoning
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, June 11, 2014. As a court in California weighs the value of a college scholarship against the billions of dollars that basketball players and football players... Read More
A 'suicide pact' for N.C. economy
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, June 11, 2014. For North Carolina, there’s bad news and good news in President Obama’s plan to order huge cuts in carbon dioxide emissions at U.S. power... Read More
Adults in the House
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, June 11, 2014. Republican lawmakers in the state House and Senate have substantially different ideas about how education and Medicaid should be funded. Either... Read More
Are Moral Mondays fizzling out?
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Review Online, June 11, 2014. This week, Moral Monday took an interesting turn; instead of ending in arrests, the evening ended with a civil discussion and an eerie march through... Read More
Blowing up the status quo in education
Chronic failures in the education system have alternately been blamed on students, parents, administrators, teachers, assessment (testing) and the curriculum. One of my favorite superintendents used... Read More
Political split outgrows the voting booth
Political polarization in America has broken out of the voting booth. A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds Americans are divided by ideology and partisanship not only when they cast ballots... Read More
SBI investigating sweepstakes donations to legislators
The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal inquiry into campaign contributions from the video sweepstakes industry to some of the state’s top elected officials. The investigation... Read More
Separate Medicaid agency may be no bargain
The state Senate’s proposed budget would carve Medicaid out of the Department of Health and Human Services in hopes of making it a more accountable, standalone agency with budget stability. But in... Read More
Eric Cantor’s Loss and 100 Million Reasons Republicans Can’t Fight the Last War in 2014
Yesterday, June 10, 2014, for the first time in American history, the sitting U.S. House Majority Leader lost a campaign for reelection. Why? Many conservative Republicans are claiming today that U.S... Read More
