Fall weather hard to forecast
As North Carolina’s legislative session draws to a close and we enter the last quarter of the 2014 campaign season, Democrats are hoping it will be a rerun of 1998. Republicans are hoping that it... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Two North Carolinas
Shades of John Edwards and “Two Americas!” The state Senate seemed to channel the former Senator in the debate over how to help the state’s stagnating rural areas keep up with booming urban... Read More
Progress despite the objection of our leaders
It seems fitting somehow that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced the decision that marks another major step toward marriage equality in North Carolina this week, just a few days after... Read More
Should NC subsidize solar industry? No
Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to. North Carolina’s solar subsidies, some of the most generous in the nation, are sort of like a runaway train that just keeps... Read More
Should NC subsidize solar energy industry? Yes.
Given your background on Republican political campaigns, why would you take a job working for green energy?” I endured this question for several months after accepting a position as the Director of... Read More
Time to rethink NC elections
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 30, 2014. The recent Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi should spur creative thinking about North Carolina’s election system. Other states offer... Read More
The deal apparently is a deal
RALEIGH, N.C. — Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Thursday, July 31. Here's what's going on at the legislature and around state government today. THE BUDGET: Formal drafts of the... Read More
NC could have used Erskine Bowles as governor
What North Carolina needed during the past 18 months was Erskine Bowles sitting in the governor’s chair. Bowles, a Charlotte investment banker, has precisely what has been sorely lacking in Raleigh... Read More
Power plants sale to give boon to the area
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, July 20, 2014. Rocky Mount residents ought to be breathing a collective sigh of relief after news broke earlier this week of a deal between Duke Energy and the N.C... Read More
Executions no place for trial and error
Whether or not the government should execute people for particularly heinous crimes has always posed murky moral, ethical and legal questions. But whether people agree or disagree on the subject, it... Read More
