Editorial by News and Observer, April 22, 2014. From the beginning, nearly three years ago, when Mary Willingham spoke out about a tutoring program for athletes that was steering some to easy classes... Read More
In March, employers in North Carolina added 19,400 more payroll positions than they cut (+0.5 percent), due entirely to growth in the private sector. The monthly household survey, meanwhile, recorded... Read More
by David Ranii, News and Observer, April 22, 2014. A blistering report on the management of the state’s $87 billion pension fund commissioned by the State Employees Association of North Carolina... Read More
Duke Energy’s top North Carolina executive told state lawmakers Tuesday that digging up coal ash from disposal sites across the state and trucking the industrial waste to modern landfills, as... Read More
The first televised debate Tuesday night reflected both a high-stakes Senate GOP primary race that is fluid and a party that is struggling to define itself. State House Speaker Thom Tillis, who has... Read More
Where are America’s economic hotspots? If you answer that question based solely on what politicians or pundits say, you might well get it wrong. You might have gotten the impression, for example... Read More
Democrats are no doubt playing in the GOP Senate primary, but some of the parallels being drawn may be exaggerated. Rob Christensen compared Democrats’ strategy against Thom Tillis to what... Read More
Thom Tillis has a problem. Tillis is running in a primary this spring. So is Kay Hagan, the incumbent Democratic U.S. senator whom he hopes to eventually unseat. Tillis, the Republican state House... Read More
Dallas Woodhouse, the sometimes fiery former director of the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity, is launching a political nonprofit organization to bolster the conservative tide in North... Read More
Finding the legislative willpower to extend North Carolina's film credits so coveted by film supporters in Wilmington, Charlotte and the state's other TV and movie towns will require the support of... Read More
