NC's business 'brokenness'
During the back-and-forth about this year’s tax reform, tax overhaul or tax cut (whatever it really was), one of the rebuttals that Democrats offered Republicans pushing for change was North... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Wos' worries
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 28, 2013. Gov. Pat McCrory promises big changes in the delivery of Medicaid services, but getting there won’t be easy. The job took a setback this week... Read More
Obamacare in NC: Missed Opportunity
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, September 29, 2013. There will be problems. There may be a lot of them. There may not. Beginning this week, Americans will start signing up for health insurance at... Read More
The facts about health insurance exchanges in NC
by Karen Garloch, Charlotte Observer, September 29, 2013. After years of partisan debate, public confusion and a Supreme Court challenge, the Affordable Care Act goes before consumers Tuesday when... Read More
Tom Coburn: GOP will ‘fold like hotcakes’ on Obamacare
If the government shuts down on Oct. 1, the GOP will “fold like hotcakes” in the fight to defund Obamacare, Sen. Tom Coburn said Friday afternoon before a critical set of votes. The Oklahoma... Read More
The answer....
Yesterday I asked why the three camps in Washington – the House Republican Bigwigs in Washington, the House Republican Conservatives in Washington, and President Obama –couldn’t sit down and... Read More
Millennial politics
Today I suspend Republican-bashing to recommend a provocative political analysis. Titled “Will Disillusioned Millennials Bring an End to the Reagan-Clinton Era?,” it’s from a professor and... Read More
Lathered up
by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, September 26, 2013. Republicans are all in a lather about the implementation of Obamacare. Here in North Carolina, they got news that sent them over the moon. Our state... Read More
When every child is a winner, we all lose
As children return to school and sign up for a new year’s worth of extracurricular activities, parents should keep one question in mind. Whether your kid loves Little League or gymnastics, ask the... Read More
No thanks to Willoughby's plea deal
by Charles van der Horst, published in News and Observer, September 27, 2013. Although I have never met Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby, according to news reports he has kindly... Read More
