What North Carolina needed during the past 18 months was Erskine Bowles sitting in the governor’s chair. Bowles, a Charlotte investment banker, has precisely what has been sorely lacking in Raleigh... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, July 20, 2014. Rocky Mount residents ought to be breathing a collective sigh of relief after news broke earlier this week of a deal between Duke Energy and the N.C... Read More
Whether or not the government should execute people for particularly heinous crimes has always posed murky moral, ethical and legal questions. But whether people agree or disagree on the subject, it... Read More
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper is premature in giving up defense of the state's marriage laws. "It is time to stop making arguments we will lose and instead move forward, knowing that the ultimate... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 28, 2014. A TV ad in Tennessee targets three justices on the state’s highest court. A narrator says: “28 states fought against Obamacare. But Tennessee... Read More
Duke Energy Progress has agreed to buy for $1.2 billion the interests that Eastern North Carolina municipal power systems own in four Duke power plants, the parties said Monday. The agreement, which... Read More
As lawmakers work out details of the $21 billion budget deal struck this weekend, advocates for groups at the center of the stalemate are voicing skepticism about the information revealed so far... Read More
by Amanda Lamb, WRAL, July 28, 2014. Following a federal appeals court ruling Monday that Virginia's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said his... Read More
A new national study concludes that charter schools in North Carolina and other states uniformly outperform traditional public schools, and have a significantly better return on investment for... Read More
The curtains could come down on the General Assembly's "short" session in the next week or two, about a month later than legislative leaders predicted before the 2014 session started. But just in case... Read More
