The best thing you can say about the House budget released this week is that it’s not the same as the dreadful Senate budget released two weeks ago. The House plan does not kick thousands of aged... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, June 11, 2014. Phil Berger knows better. A small-town lawyer by trade, the Republican president pro tem of the state Senate deals every day in his profession with... Read More
The state House introduced a $21.1 billion budget Tuesday morning that is substantially different from the Senate plan and exposes the wide gulf between House and Senate Republicans on how to pay for... Read More
State Rep. Marcus Brandon and other North Carolina legislators have called for a constitutional convention to reverse a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision on campaign finance. The resolution... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 11, 2014. What most North Carolina residents don’t know about economic development and recruitment is ... just about everything. At the state level, the... Read More
There was a time in the early 1970s when Republicans were leaders in protecting the water, land and air. President Richard Nixon was responsible for creating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, June 10, 2014. The $21.1 billion budget unveiled by the N.C. House Tuesday still fails to adequately address the state’s needs, but it’s a significant improvement... Read More
Will the real North Carolina conservatives please stand up? Game show aficionados will remember “To Tell the Truth,” which aired in one form or another on CBS, NBC, and in syndication for decades... Read More
Lucrative jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields attract highly skilled workers and add jobs to our economy more rapidly than any other industry. However, the growth of these... Read More
Horrified by the vision of legions of fired Democratic state employees, back when Jim Martin was elected Governor, Democrats changed the law so Martin couldn’t fire much of anyone – then announced... Read More
