The proposed merger of the Asheville Water System into a Metropolitan Sewer District continues to create controversy, with new revelations that two western legislators might be using veiled... Read More
Looking at the Great Republican Rollback, Democrats are tempted to attack on every front: taxes, Medicaid, teacher pay, jetty ban, Jordan Lake, Child Fatality Task Force, Rural Center, Racial Justice... Read More
Over the years, North Carolina has won awards from prestigious publications such as Forbes and Site Selection magazine as an attractive state in which to conduct one type of business or another. But... Read More
Liberal groups in and outside the state seem to be spending sleepless nights worried about the fate of judicial-election changes North Carolina adopted in 2002. The General Assembly should save our... Read More
I had the opportunity to talk with Governor Holshouser on Saturday morning although he was unconscious and probably did not hear me, especially since his daughter, Ginny, said he did not have his... Read More
The tax reform debate in the General Assembly has moved in recent days from frustrating and confusing to simply embarrassing. It hasn’t been about reform for a while. House and Senate leaders keep... Read More
Jim Holshouser grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, came home to Boone to practice law with his father and got interested in politics. He served 10 years in the North Carolina House, was House... Read More
Both the federal and state constitutions protect the right of North Carolinians to petition their government for redress of grievances. Perhaps you think I’m about to opine on the Moral Mondays... Read More
For three years, opponents of Common Core State Standards have done a good job articulating shortcomings of the widespread adoption of common standards and testing, identifying key flaws that... Read More
Regarding the June 5 article “Forest no fan of Common Core”: I am concerned by misleading information regarding the Common Core State Standards. The CCSS effort is not an intrusion by the federal... Read More
