Chronic failures in the education system have alternately been blamed on students, parents, administrators, teachers, assessment (testing) and the curriculum. One of my favorite superintendents used... Read More
Political polarization in America has broken out of the voting booth. A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds Americans are divided by ideology and partisanship not only when they cast ballots... Read More
The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal inquiry into campaign contributions from the video sweepstakes industry to some of the state’s top elected officials. The investigation... Read More
The state Senate’s proposed budget would carve Medicaid out of the Department of Health and Human Services in hopes of making it a more accountable, standalone agency with budget stability. But in... Read More
Yesterday, June 10, 2014, for the first time in American history, the sitting U.S. House Majority Leader lost a campaign for reelection. Why? Many conservative Republicans are claiming today that U.S... Read More
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
