Jim Goodnight, the CEO of Cary software company SAS, spoke at a press conference in Washington Wednesday marking the roll out of bills that would expand voluntary preschool nationwide if they become... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, November 14, 2013. William Friday, the late president emeritus of the University of North Carolina system and the man who designed what is now a 16-campus structure... Read More
Planting a paltry number on a national disappointment, the Obama administration revealed Wednesday that just 26,794 people enrolled for health insurance during the first, flawed month of operations... Read More
Governor McCrory and legislative Republicans have a theory: Cut taxes and regulations, and jobs will flow in. What if they’re wrong – not only on the economics, but also on the politics? What... Read More
All of us want a cleaner environment and a way to lower energy costs for our homes and vehicles. We have supported the increased costs in cars as new technology has been added to increase fuel... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 13, 2013. Somewhere along the line, the words of the state constitution got lost in the making of University of North Carolina system tuition policy. The... Read More
There are big questions about the state's largest teacher advocacy group. The North Carolina Association of Educators has 50,000 members but some teachers, who haven't seen a raise in years, are... Read More
The North Carolina Senate race has tightened up quite a bit in the last couple months, with early attacks ads on Kay Hagan and the unpopular rollout of Obamacare taking a toll on her poll numbers... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, November 13, 2013. Some Republican legislators treated Moral Monday protesters as if they were unruly college students out demonstrating against Saturday classes. In... Read More
North Carolina adopted the Common Core curriculum in math and language arts and more rigorous tests for its students. The results have come in as expected: dismal. Only 44 percent of students... Read More
