Teachers and taxes
While Governor McCrory and his patrons at the John Locke Foundation were bragging about tax cuts on Tax Day, Republicans in the Legislative Building were digging an even deeper teacher-pay hole for... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Game changer
Harry Reid’s new ad is hardball with a thud. Here’s Reid’s story in a nutshell: He says Thom Tillis shared an apartment with his Chief of Staff, who had an affair with a married lobbyist, and... Read More
Irony, hypocrisy and flawed methodology on Tax Day
The irony seemed to completely escape Governor Pat McCrory Wednesday as he took the podium at a Tax Day event to heap praise on last year’s tax package that gave huge breaks to millionaires and... Read More
Course correction
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 18, 2014. Who could have guessed that Pat McCrory might be the governor who gets coal ash ponds cleaned up? The former Duke Energy employee didn’t run on a... Read More
UNC's Nichol not the only professor fighting academic freedom battle
Gene Nichol, former dean of UNC’s law school and now a professor there, might have a valid complaint. An outspoken column last October led UNC’s administrators to rap his knuckles. They asked him... Read More
NC poor would be better served with more light, less heat from Nichol
by Michael Jacobs, Jacobs Capital and UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business, published in News and Observer, April 17, 2014. It is widely known that Professor Gene Nichol, who runs the Center on... Read More
'Alarming increase' in teacher resignations
Teacher resignations have increased by an “alarming” 41 percent this school year, Wake County school leaders said Thursday, in a development they said makes it harder to keep high-quality... Read More
Charlotte Observer editorial offers its own "education in politics"
I am not surprised that the Charlotte Observer editorial staff is attacking the Republican chairs of the North Carolina Educator Effectiveness and Compensation Task Force, Rep. Rob Bryan and Sen... Read More
Oregon Inlet shoaling problems
The imminent start of the charter fishing season finds boat owners and local officials hoping for a literal change in the wind to open the sand-clogged Oregon Inlet anytime soon. But long-range... Read More
Time for N&O to get back in 'No Spin Zone'
Editorial by Greenville Headlines, Inner Banks Media, April 16, 2014. No matter what you think of the efforts of the Republican leadership in North Carolina, they deserve to have their message... Read More
