Bipartisan lawmakers
The General Assembly did something unusual Thursday. Legislators admitted there were problems with a law enacted in 2012, worked in a bi-partisan fashion to amend it, and probably saved what is an... Read More
NC Spin Articles
What I wish I'd said...
NC Spin has a new weekly online feature, a segment called “After Spin” where the panelists are asked to disclose after the taped discussion, what they wished they’d said. I was asked to fill in... Read More
Screen Gems exec: It's clear we're not welcome in NC
Today’s vote by the House Finance Committee that defeated a proposal to extend a modified version of the state’s film tax incentive has prompted rebuke from the executive vice president of EUE... Read More
VA Secretary Gibson visits Fayetteville, gets testy
Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson announced Thursday that the Fayetteville VA Medical Center will receive $7.4 million. The money will be used to combat problems that led the facility to... Read More
Tenure ruling affirms the right to a quality education
Editorial by News and Observer, June 12, 2014. State Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) took it as good news when a California judge ruled this week that California’s tenure... Read More
Wasting time and costing taxpayers money
State Rep. Tim Moffitt said he wasn’t surprised that an N.C. judge deemed invalid and unconstitutional a law passed last session by the N.C. General Assembly. Maybe that’s because the honorables... Read More
Legislators pressure locals to raise property taxes
From Goldsboro Mayor Al King, who is also president of the board of directors of the N.C. League of Municipalities, in response to Rep. David Lewis’ “Taxes should be fair, simple; privilege... Read More
Common Core and Ernest Hemingway
I’m very, very nervous… Democratic State Representative Marcus Brandon said. Disagreeing, Republican Representative Michael Speciale countered, What’s the price of selling our souls... Read More
Smart voters
Everybody has a theory about why Eric Cantor lost, one that usually reflects their overall theory about politics: It was about immigration. Cantor was aloof and arrogant. The Tea Party is still a... Read More
College sports nears a day of reckoning
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, June 11, 2014. As a court in California weighs the value of a college scholarship against the billions of dollars that basketball players and football players... Read More
