Amid years of questions surrounding the relationship between athletics and academic fraud at UNC-Chapel Hill, the NCAA is reopening its investigation at UNC, the university announced on Monday. UNC... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, June 29, 2014. Something tells us our Republican friends in the N.C. General Assembly didn’t see this one coming. Once they took control of the legislature, GOP... Read More
Every year at the General Assembly members of the majority party in the House and Senate describe the budget put together by their chamber’s leaders as the best possible budget for North Carolina... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, June 30, 2014. Deadlines in politics have a way of being ignored, usually at additional cost to the governed. That's the case with North Carolina's budgetary... Read More
Political pundits across the nation are watching closely this year as North Carolinians prepare to head to the polls to decide whether first-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan will keep her job... Read More
Political labels are necessary. They are also problematic. Without labels, political conversation would be difficult to sustain. Debate flows from disagreement. On any given proposal for government to... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, June 27, 2014. As proposed by the state Senate in a unanimous vote, SB 729, otherwise known as the Coal Ash Management Act of 2014, is a wordy piece of legislation... Read More
It’s been a year since a sharply divided Supreme Court declared victory in the war against voter discrimination and suppression and tossed out one of the most powerful weapons used in that battle... Read More
by Rachael Dobi, Civitas Institute, June 25, 2014. A new “public-private partnership” in North Carolina appears to put hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk while guaranteeing profit... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, June 26, 2014. Americans eat too much salt. In fact, we eat on average about a third more than the government recommends. We eat so much, in fact, that we are... Read More
