Wasting time and costing taxpayers money
State Rep. Tim Moffitt said he wasn’t surprised that an N.C. judge deemed invalid and unconstitutional a law passed last session by the N.C. General Assembly. Maybe that’s because the honorables... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Legislators pressure locals to raise property taxes
From Goldsboro Mayor Al King, who is also president of the board of directors of the N.C. League of Municipalities, in response to Rep. David Lewis’ “Taxes should be fair, simple; privilege... Read More
Common Core and Ernest Hemingway
I’m very, very nervous… Democratic State Representative Marcus Brandon said. Disagreeing, Republican Representative Michael Speciale countered, What’s the price of selling our souls... Read More
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
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
