by Bob Ashley, Editor, Durham Herald-Sun, April 5, 2014. If you wanted to know how Lizard Lick got that name – one of my favorites on the North Carolina map – you could, of course, Google it. But... Read More
As state transportation officials take up the knotty issue of how to pay for roads in the future, they better first understand the political thicket in which state legislators have left them. Members... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, April 5, 2014. These are not happy days on the state transportation front. Drooping tax revenues, higher construction costs and congressional dysfunction are... Read More
There is an obvious art to dealing with an FBI agent sting operation if you are a public official. Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green, a shrewd ol’ country boy, could obviously smell it out better than Charlotte... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, April 5, 2014. Here come the told-you-so’s. Here come Republicans justifying a bad N.C. voter ID law by pointing to a new report that shows hundreds of cases of... Read More
Outside groups have spent more than $15 million on political advertising – most of it negative – on both sides of North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, more money than in any other state. Who is... Read More
A year ago when my health insurance went up I grumbled and blamed Blue Cross. Then, this year, my new bill arrived and the premium went up again even more. But this time I didn’t blame Blue Cross. I... Read More
Just as ObamaCare divides the nation politically, it divides Democrats strategically. Does it spell disaster in November, or can we score points with it? The President took the ball to the basket... Read More
There are still many questions about Governor Pat McCrory’s plan to turn over the state’s economic development efforts to a private nonprofit, a strategy that has caused numerous problems in other... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 4, 2014. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people voted in North Carolina and another state in 2012. Or maybe they didn’t. Wednesday’s report by State... Read More
