Two decades ago, the world looked promising for electronic pagination systems workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, armed with the kind of confidence known only to oracles and mathematicians... Read More
From the Koch brothers and Art Pope to George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, wealthy donors are making North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race one of America’s first $100 million contests. Outside groups... Read More
If the polls are to be believed, Republicans are on the verge of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in North Carolina’s Senate race. All the fundamentals favored the GOP. No Democratic... Read More
Editor's note: This is a compilation of a series of blogs posted by the author Months ago, back when she started her campaign, Kay Hagan faced a knotty problem: She was going to get the Democratic... Read More
In the state where President Obama had his closest win in 2008 and his closest loss in 2012, why wouldn’t the U.S. Senate race be tight as a tick? Carter has posted a great series of blogs about... Read More
Are Americans getting dumber? Our math skills are falling. Our reading skills are weakening. Our children have become less literate than children in many developed countries. But the crisis in... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 18, 2014. When a power company gets a tax break, are its customers entitled to share in it? Yes, the N.C. Utilities Commission said in May. No, it said... Read More
A new study released yesterday by the Civitas Institute evaluates government education spending and academic results across all local school districts in NC. A few key findings from the study include... Read More
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan is taking heat over money that her husband’s company received as part of the federal economic stimulus grant in 2010. Thom Tillis, Hagan’s Republican challenger in the U.S... Read More
The Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election. A majority of the justices rejected an emergency request from the Justice... Read More
