By this time next month, a private, nonprofit corporation will have opened its doors at a small office building in Cary with a big mission – recruiting jobs to North Carolina and promoting the... Read More
by Senator Kay Hagan, published in the Greensboro News-Record, September 8, 2014. In what has been called one of the worst Supreme Court rulings since the founding of our nation, the 2010 Citizens... Read More
Gene Epstein of Barron’s is the latest reviewer to heap praise on Jason Riley’s book Please Stop Helping Us. A member of the editorial board at The Wall Street Journal (published by Dow... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, September 7, 2014. Was Art Pope, who is leaving his post as state budget director, giving the University of North Carolina Board of Governors an educated critique of... Read More
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
