An earthshaking shift...
In May as soon as the Notables and Honorables who serve in the State Senate arrived in Raleigh and settled into their seats, they glanced at Governor McCrory’s Budget, flipped it into the waste bin... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Separate SBI turf war from sweepstakes investigation
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 17, 2014. Video poker operators were big donors to then-N.C. House Speaker Jim Black more than a decade ago. More recently, video sweepstakes operators have... Read More
Our best, politically engaged citizens are becoming our poisonous worst
The best citizens of our republic – the politically active and engaged voters who care passionately about issues and even read newspapers – are becoming rigid, intolerant boors who are poisoning... Read More
House, Senate disagree over using DOT funds to pay McCrory staff salaries
House leaders are OK with a quiet decision by the McCrory administration to pay some of the governor’s staff salaries with highway tax dollars, but the Senate has a different idea: Nip it in the... Read More
Budget director and conservatives disagree on film incentives
Art Pope, the governor’s budget director, is advocating a continuation of North Carolina’s film incentive program. But a battery of conservative organizations with close ties to Pope are leading... Read More
Teachers can spend their summer scratching off
I have a big idea for North Carolina Republicans. They want to give teachers a raise. They want to give them a raise because they know it’s laughable to suggest a starting statewide base salary of... Read More
Start with the right measures
Fiscal conservatives think government is too large, costs too much, and tries to do too much. Fiscal liberals think government is too small, spends too little, and doesn’t try to do enough. This is... Read More
Tales of corruption
Republicans made great hay in 2010 and 2012 over then-ongoing investigations of Democratic politicians, like John Edwards, Mike Easley and appointees of Bev Perdue. Suddenly the shoe is on the other... Read More
Critical to find common ground on Common Core
State lawmakers are quickly advancing legislation during the current legislative session to repeal North Carolina’s previous adoption of the Common Core Standards in education. Unfortunately, the... Read More
Medical school critical
Since the early 1970s, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center (formerly Pitt County Memorial Hospital) have sustained a unique relationship that is... Read More
