Is the bear bored?
President Obama has taken to slipping the surly bonds of office, going out to Starbucks for a coffee, asking friends to set up late dinners with interesting, intellectually stimulating people (as... Read More
NC Spin Articles
A useful summary of the session
The best one line summary of much of this legislative session came from the N.C. Medical Society Thursday in a statement about the Senate Medicaid plan that turns over the health care program for the... Read More
Let's try talking the gov's language
For Pat McCrory, being governor of North Carolina is a series of political considerations. This is not an uncommon nor a horrible thing. McCrory, like most politicians, would like to get elected again... Read More
State tax cut costs ballooning
New figures from legislative analysts confirm the 2013 cut to individual income tax rates is costing the state far more than originally projected. Last year, Republican leaders authored a plan to cut... Read More
Modern political debate
It sure looks, Richard said politely, like John Boehner could have found something else to sue President Obama over. Fifty-four times John Boehner and the Republicans have voted to repeal Obamacare... Read More
GOP lite or real Dems
It’s an argument I’ve heard for 40 years: “Southern Democrats, meet your future: No more Republican lite.” That’s the headline on a recent article by Bob Moser, Senior Editor at the... Read More
A stark reminder of misplaced priorities
While folks inside the beltline in Raleigh were parsing every rumor about the budget dance between House and Senate leaders, a new national report provided a stark reminder of just how out of touch... Read More
Anti-urban sentiment troubling
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, July 24, 2014. The legislative majority’s disdain for the state’s largest cities continued to surface this week, this time in a bill to cap the county-controlled... Read More
Offshore drilling ahead
Decades from now, when school children in North Carolina look back on 2014, they might hear about the massive coal ash spill into the Dan River and subsequent legislation requiring cleanup of Duke... Read More
Save the subsidies
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 25, 2014. More than 350,000 North Carolina residents signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and about 90 percent qualified for federal... Read More
