Funding healthcare in the N.C. budget
In honor of Healthcare Solutions Week, I wanted to share with you some information about North Carolina’s Health and Human Services budget. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Two more reminders of the damage to public education
You have to give folks on the Right credit for one thing this election season. They are going all out to mislead people in North Carolina about the damage done to public education by the General... Read More
Where's the fight in the North Carolina Democratic party?
by Gene Nichol, UNC professor, published in News and Observer, October 16, 2014. It is impossible to miss the fact that an election approaches. Commercials launch from every corner and platform. You... Read More
School vouchers: A second look at fraud and abuse
Since our last look at the rampant fraud and abuse of school voucher programs around the country, North Carolina has implemented its own voucher program that provides low-income students with funds... Read More
In praise of Pat
Stop the presses. I have something nice to say about Governor McCrory. Unlike his Republican colleagues Thom Tillis, Phil Berger and Dan Forrest, McCrory said he will respect and obey the court... Read More
A faster track
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 16, 2014. The N.C. Supreme Court will decide sooner rather than later whether school vouchers violate the state constitution. The court last week announced... Read More
This is why I love the market
I haven’t had a tv for more than a decade, and increasing numbers of my friends are getting rid of theirs. At the very least, many of them are dropping cable or satellite and using their... Read More
Lawmakers not yet sold on Medicaid expansion
State Secretary of Health and Human Services Aldona Wos has been crisscrossing the state with an optimistic message that she is preparing to recommend Medicaid expansion for North Carolina to Gov. Pat... Read More
Rhetoric, reality and DPI cuts
After state legislators approved a 10 percent reduction to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s $70 million budget, state education officials and their boosters sounded the alarm. This was... Read More
Odd and odder
If you think about it DENR’s proposal was pretty odd. Last winter, when tons of water from a coal ash pond poured into the Dan River, there was consternation and gnashing of teeth. The U.S... Read More
