Judge puts N.C. school vouchers on hold
The legislature’s plan to give parents taxpayer money to send their children to private schools suffered a setback Friday when a Superior Court judge granted opponents’ request to suspend the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Settling it
John Drescher down at the News and Observer hit the nail on the head last week when he wrote: ‘Steve Beam needs a boss.’ What’s happened to Mr. Beam (the Director of the Raleigh Housing... Read More
Stuff happens
Governor McCrory was checking off his 2014 Reset List. Teacher pay plan: check. Televised command presence in snowstorm: check. National face time on Face the Nation: check. New communications... Read More
Don't let television cloud what candidates are saying and doing
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, February 21, 2014. North Carolina voters face plenty of important decisions at the polls this year, from county commissioners and sheriffs, to state legislators and... Read More
Backlog return unacceptable
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, February 21, 2014. State Rep. Donny Lambeth is absolutely correct in his comment on the state’s chronic problem with processing food-stamp applications. “It is... Read More
Burr: Not too late to replace Affordable Care Act
Republicans on Capitol Hill are shifting their strategy to deal with the Affordable Care Act. Instead of calling for a dismantling of the health care law, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and others have... Read More
Republicans' North Carolina plan penalizes poor to subsidize rich
by Gene Nichol, UNC professor of law, published in News and Observer, February 21, 2014. Last month, scholars at Harvard and Berkeley released a massive study of economic mobility in America’s... Read More
NC schools dealing with problem-plauged computer system
A new state computer system for keeping track of student information has so many problems that the accuracy of transcripts, athletic eligibility and the number of students enrolled in schools is... Read More
Who has the best teachers? New report ranks them
More than three-quarters of teachers in North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools met state goals for student gains on test scores, though CMS fell slightly under the state average on new... Read More
Ole Joe Hunt
Governor McCrory walked into Reid’s Fine Food and ran head on into a cook who proceeded to tell him what he thought of the Governor’s politics; then, the way the cook tells it, the Governor... Read More
