The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next month on legislation that would help 28 million workers across the country and 21 million children. The bill would benefit more than a million workers in North... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, February 25, 2014. State Rep. Susi Hamilton supports the concept of enlisting private enterprise to help recruit businesses to North Carolina, but she objects to... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, February 25, 2014. A judge has blocked private school tuition grants, which appear to violate the N.C. Constitution's provision that state funding go exclusively to... Read More
by Jon Sanders, The Locker Room, John Locke Foundation, February 26, 2014. Well, that isn’t exactly what CWIP stands for (it’s “Construction Work in Progress”), but in a sense it’s what CWIP... Read More
When politicians admit they don’t know something, that makes me respect them more. Admitted ignorance is a sign of maturity, of a willingness to learn. It can be remedied with facts. What really... Read More
A new HPU Poll finds that 42 percent of North Carolina residents approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance. The poll, the second HPU Poll of 2014, places Gov. Pat McCrory’s job... Read More
In recent months, Governor McCrory and his supporters have pointed to a number of controversial steps lawmakers took in 2013, like cutting unemployment insurance, as being the catalyst for a... Read More
Twenty-five years ago, education secretary Bill Bennett advanced the idea that government student aid was largely to blame for the steady increases in college tuition. Since then, higher education... Read More
According to a North Carolina based real-estate company, Movoto, they have compiled a ranking of the top ten places to retire in North Carolina. They only chose cities with a population of... Read More
In the aftermath of last week’s political firestorm surrounding the nomination of Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. as executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Chavis, who had his... Read More
