We don't hear you Raleigh
It’s a rite of summer. The House, the Senate and the Governor can’t agree on a budget. They tell themselves that millions of North Carolinians are in suspense, following the latest twist in the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The wrong cure
Mike, a young down-the-line rock-ribbed Republican partisan who sees eye to eye with Senator Bob Rucho (who once tweeted ‘Obamacare has done more damage than the Nazis’) but is too smart to say... Read More
Missing the budget forest for all the sniping in the trees
Most of the talk in Raleigh these days is about the sniping between House and Senate leaders as lawmakers try to come up with a final budget agreement. This week House Speaker Thom Tillis joined... Read More
Democrats, Democracy suffering under GOP control
That Republicans express disdain for the Democratic Party is not unexpected. That they refuse to refer to it by its proper name, instead calling it the “Democrat Party,” is just rather childish... Read More
McCrory must make his economic development program more transparent
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, June 26, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory’s fellow Republicans have finally carried him to a victory. But it’s a dubious one, that of privatizing economic development... Read More
Pope to lawmakers: "We've got lousy (Medicaid) information"
by Mark Binker, WRAL, June 26, 2014. The missing element in budget negotiations between the state Senate, Gov. Pat McCrory and the House seems to be trust. Senators don't trust what they see as rosy... Read More
NC missing opportunity to convert waste to energy
While much of the renewable energy conversation is focused on solar and wind, most of North Carolina’s residents would be surprised to learn of the huge potential we have to turn our waste into... Read More
Berger: 'Moral' budget agenda too expensive to accomplish
by Phil Berger, Senate President Pro Tem, published in News and Observer, June 26, 2014. In response to the June 21 Point of View “ A moral budget for North Carolina” by Rev. William Barber... Read More
With veto, Gov. McCrory is more interested in himself than the jobless
For just a brief moment there, it looked as though Gov. Pat McCrory was siding with – rather than sticking it to – struggling Tar Heels. Sure, Gov. McCrory rejected, the first chance he got and... Read More
House, Senate political theatre leads to little progress on budget bill
A four-hour span of political theater Thursday illustrated the lingering divide among Republican legislative leaders on how to rework the state’s $21 billion budget. Senators started the morning... Read More
