In a world of constant news events, chronic issues struggle for attention. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its most recent report on food insecurity in America. North... Read More
The NAACP and others challenging the sweeping changes to North Carolina election laws in 2013 will have an opportunity to make arguments to a federal appeals court that the November elections should... Read More
by David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, September 9, 2014. A debate on U.S. Senate debates surfaced Tuesday after Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan said she wouldn’t participate in an Oct... Read More
Is the state’s Medicaid program in the black for the first time since 2006? The answer, according to Tuesday’s Department of Health and Human Services oversight meeting, depends on your... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, September 7, 2014. “Employee misclassification.” The term is not likely to get your heart racing, but it should. Why? Because it’s illegal, it’s widespread and... Read More
North Carolina’s public schools have just released end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores for the 2013-14 school year. You may have heard something about them, particularly from districts eager... Read More
by Mary Cornatzer, Under the Dome, September 8, 2014. Former state budget director Art Pope is ranked No. 15 in the U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index. The ranking as the title indicates... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, September 8, 2014. Aside from casting ballots for specific candidates, North Carolina voters will be asked to decide whether to amend the state constitution to... Read More
Lacking popular support to turn back the clock, the right tries to pull a fast one It’s one of the great political wonders of 21st Century America: Nearly 50 years after the United States Supreme... Read More
A TAPster unimpressed by the Hagan-Tillis debate says, “If you want to see a real debate, watch Jim Hunt debate Jesse Helms in 1984. That was like Ali and Frazier.” Ah, take me back to those... Read More
