Obamacare ruling may roil North Caroina
The latest chaos associated with Obamacare could have an impact on North Carolina. A ruling yesterday by a federal court was a major jolt to the health care law. A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals... Read More
NC Spin Articles
North Carolina children face a troubling future
Editorial by News and Observer, July 23, 2014. The Annie E. Casey Foundation is in the business of looking out for the interests of children, particularly poor children, and uses periodic data to... Read More
It's time to fix North Carolina's bridges
Editorial by News and Observer, July 23, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory and Republican legislative leaders are facing an issue that will test their governing and budgeting ability. The Charlotte Observer... Read More
Study: Charter schools get better results for less money
Students in N.C. charter schools earned higher reading and math scores in 2011 than their counterparts in traditional public schools, while the charter schools got less money for doing it... Read More
Education's broad value
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, July 23, 2014. Colleges and universities are facing more and more scrutiny these days over the value of the education they provide and the degrees they grant. That is... Read More
Where's the Democrats' Art Pope?
Art Pope’s critics often accuse him of “buying the State of North Carolina.” If he did, he got it cheap. The Washington Post this weekend published its obligatory profile about the mild... Read More
Hagan sidesteps Democratic Party turmoil
Having lost its grip on political power in North Carolina, the state’s Democratic Party has the chance to prove its mettle by helping Kay Hagan retain the Senate seat she won in 2008. But internal... Read More
Hagan widens lead on Tillis
The latest PPP poll shows incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan growing a lead over Republican State House Speaker Thom Tillis. Hagan leads Tillis 41/34 with Libertarian Sean Haugh receiving 8% of... Read More
Neither Hagan nor Tillis is a winger
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get a news release from some partisan source that says a) that Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan is too left-wing to represent North Carolina or b) that GOP Senate... Read More
Medicaid match
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 23, 2014. In his first year as governor, Pat McCrory often said he was stepping on toes of both Democrats and Republicans. Few Republican toes seemed to be... Read More
