by Travis Fain, Greensboro News-Record, September 19, 2013. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest called Wednesday for North Carolina to pay the nation's highest teaching salaries and to put wireless broadband Internet... Read More
Governor McCrory has learned one thing about his new job: He’s not in Charlotte anymore, Toto. And he doesn’t like it. At a news conference, the Governor vented thinly veiled frustration at how... Read More
Republicans took office this January pledging to change the direction that North Carolina was heading. By all accounts, they were successful. Here’s the bad news: most North Carolinians who... Read More
Rob Christensen of the News & Observer recently published an article in which he claims to uncover “the truth” behind 10 “myths” about North Carolina state government. Disappointingly... Read More
So it seems Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry is visiting states headed by Democrats trying to lure businesses. He ran radio and TV ads in Maryland with the message: "When you grow tired of Maryland... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, September 16, 2013. The system dubbed “NC FAST” hasn’t lived up to its name yet. And while state and local officials insist that the bugs are slowly but... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 18, 2o13. Another day, another McCrory salary kerfuffle. Once again, a well-paid and politically connected employee has been appointed to a top job at the... Read More
By now the scene has become all too familiar, folks on the far-right railing against expanding health care to cover the uninsured, warning that it marks the end of freedom in America as we know it and... Read More
It must be the Governor’s nightmare – opening the newspaper and seeing the acronym ‘DHHS.’ The other morning one headline roared DHHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) had hired... Read More
Do you remember Aunt Linda, the eye-rolling Saturday Night Live character who rated movies somewhere between "Puuhleese!" and "What???" Given this latest story, I'm wondering where this ever... Read More
