Truth, or dare
Editorial by News and Observer, August 3, 2013. Saying something doesn’t make it so, goes the old saw, but somewhere along the way Gov. Pat McCrory didn’t pick that one up. In a speech to the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Amateur hour is over; FAA will determine Charlotte airport's future
A judge blocked the transfer of control of Charlotte Douglas International Airport to an independent commission on Thursday, pending a decision from the Federal Aviation Administration about the... Read More
N.C. A great place to call home
North Carolina is taking a lot of flak these days from those who live far away, the New York Times editorial board only one recent example. We're being painted as a state in hopeless peril for all of... Read More
Needed: a fundamental Culture Shift
There are many people talking about how America is changing and not for the better. They cite how we need to return to the Founding Fathers view of government. Further they lament over a loss of... Read More
Let’s Make a Deal
As Donna Martinez reported shortly after the sales tax holiday went into effect in 2003, it was all a gimmick. A “shiny object” to distract North Carolina taxpayers from the real fact – a big... Read More
N.C. Schools trying to make a degree more affordable
As students prepare to flock to our state’s colleges and universities this month for the fall semester, here’s a statistic worth noting: Just 27 percent of adults in North Carolina hold a bachelor... Read More
Egypt, Nazi Germany and North Carolina
Does the following description of a political situation at the beginning of July apply to Egypt or North Carolina? **Just a year after winning a decisive election victory and taking power from an... Read More
McCrory off on school funding claim
Editorial by Travis Fain, Greensboro News and Record, August 1, 2013. Gov. Pat McCrory told an N.C. Chamber gathering this morning that the $7.8 billion in the budget for K-12 schools this year is the... Read More
The new state seal?
Source: Talking About Politics Translation: To be backwards rather than to seem backwards Read More
In the hearts of North Carolina patriots
From the epic poem to Dadaism, political turmoil has inspired new artistic genre. The Republican un-Reconstruction in North Carolina has made its own contribution, the obituary for “our formerly... Read More
