by Jane Stancill, News and Observer, March 4, 2014. Art Pope, the state budget director, has kicked the UNC system’s budget proposal back to the Board of Governors for a rewrite, saying it “simply... Read More
And so it begins again. Filing is over, and the 2014 election cycle is off and running. North Carolinians will elect a U.S. senator and 13 U.S. representatives to serve in Washington. We will elect... Read More
Americans hate health insurance companies. They are easy targets for everyone to beat up on. When premiums go up, we blame insurance companies; we do not blame the underlying hospitals or physicians... Read More
Only one-third of North Carolina registered voters approve of Sen. Kay Hagan's job performance, her lowest rating in a year, according to the latest Elon University Poll. Hagan was the only politician... Read More
The other day I was feeling a little down and blue about Republicans’ foibles then thanks to Democratic Chairman Randy Vollmer the sun broke through the clouds. Awhile back, the Democratic Party... Read More
Growing fruits and vegetables on 200 acres of Lenoir County land is sometimes a hard way to make a living. Curtis Smith knows it’s the military in North Carolina that gives his family farm a... Read More
State environmental regulators repeatedly tried to impose stormwater runoff controls at a Duke Energy power plant in Person County but were met with inaction by their supervisors for years, according... Read More
The moral decline of modern capitalism infects North Carolina state government There are lots of insidious ways in which the unfettered greed and inequality of 21st capitalism are infecting and... Read More
Last Friday, some 44,000 discouraged North Carolina workers suddenly disappeared. Relax. It’s not as mysterious and tragic as it sounds. What happened was that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics... Read More
