Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, September 2, 2014. The cozy relationship between legislators and lobbyists is even tighter when the lobbyist is also a former fellow lawmaker. Recently retired state... Read More
First of all a warning: I am a Democrat. You cannot trust a partisan commentator to give an objective report on a political contest like a debate between candidates for the United States Senate. Now... Read More
The latest poll on North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race has Republican Thom Tillis (43 percent) and Democrat Kay Hagan (42 percent) neck-and-neck, with Libertarian Sean Haugh at 5 percent and... Read More
Every two-year legislative session, N.C. General Assembly lawmakers propose laws that raise eyebrows, generate chuckles around the Legislative Building or are simply a little weird. It’s fun to... Read More
When Republicans won their legislative majorities in 2010 and expanded them in 2012, they ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and reform. They’ve largely delivered on it. Tax and regulatory... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, September 6, 2014. Turning back the clock on four decades of advances in health care for rural, underserved communities is no way to lessen state budget... Read More
From 1936 to 1942, photographer H. Lee Waters traveled across North Carolina shooting 16 mm silent films of the state’s people. Later, Waters would return to the town in which he’d shot a... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, September 6, 2014. The race between Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis, already stands as the most expensive Senate... Read More
Candidates and their advisers spend a lot of time during debate prep thinking about how to address their opponent, so it was no happenstance that Tillis called Hagan “Kay” and she called him... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 6, 2014. North Carolina’s Republican leaders made a shortsighted decision in 2013 to reject Medicaid coverage for more residents. A new report by... Read More
