A year later
Last year (after their big victory in the 2012 election) as soon as Republican State Senators and State Representatives got to Raleigh they went to work to cut spending and it was almost like a... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Ideology holding up budget agreement, not Medicaid
t turns out that the disagreement between the House and Senate over the cost of Medicaid next year is not the only thing holding up a final state budget that provides a pay raise for teachers and... Read More
Lawmakers: This isn't marijuana
As state legislators debated allowing the use of an extract from marijuana plants to treat seizure disorders over the past couple of weeks, it was evident that social conservatives – there are many... Read More
Good start to week celebrating liberty
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, July 1, 2014. Americans’ religious freedom prevailed this week when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Hobby Lobby’s challenge of Obama-care... Read More
The Civil Rights Act changed history, but much work still remains
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, July 2, 2014. On this day 50 years ago – July 2, 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law in a nationally televised ceremony from... Read More
Bouncing budgets
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 2, 2014. The state House spending plan hit the Senate like a rubber check Monday. It bounced right back. The 41-page budget modification bill approved... Read More
Dry run of NC's voter ID law hits a few bumps
The May primary was kind of a dry run for North Carolina’s new politically charged voter ID law. Although the law does not go into effect until 2016, primary voters were asked by polling officials... Read More
Mary Willingham files suit against UNC Chapel Hill
Mary Willingham, the former UNC-Chapel Hill reading specialist who contends the university values the eligibility of its student athletes more than academic integrity, claims in a lawsuit filed this... Read More
N.C. Senate contests Gov. McCrory's rebound
Gov. Pat McCrory began the year looking for a fresh start. A rough first year plagued by missteps put his approval ratings underwater and diminished his clout as state lawmakers drove the policy... Read More
Serve a different plate
As often happens at the North Carolina General Assembly, the new fiscal year has begun with the House and Senate have yet to complete their work on a budget-adjustment bill. Medicaid funding, teacher... Read More
