Business owners more optimistic
North Carolina business owners are more optimistic about their company’s prospects and are more likely to hire new employees than they were six months ago, according to a new survey from PNC... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Unemployment rate masks 250,000 "missing workers"
North Carolina’s official unemployment rate only tells half of the story, according to a new report released today that finds a quarter-million working age North Carolinians are neither employed... Read More
NC loses 54 cents on the dollar on film incentives legislative staff say
North Carolina loses 54 cents for every dollar it allocates to the state film production credit, and the actual return on investment might be even worse, concluded a memorandum from the General... Read More
Ultimately court ruling won't matter much
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, April 3, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday striking down limits on total campaign contributions by individuals elicited strong disapproval from a host... Read More
Accountability in education
It’s not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples... Read More
The Jury is still out on voter fraud claims
Editorial by News and Observer, April 3, 2014. North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders want to call one election before all the votes are in. They say that state elections officials, having... Read More
Retired UNC professors urge faculty to confront academic scandal
More than 30 retired faculty are challenging their colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill to seek answers from the administration about how a long-running academic fraud began and continued to run unchecked... Read More
Cannon is the pay-to-play exception in politics
by Tom Terrell, attorney, published in Charlotte Observer, April 4, 2014. Like all of us, I watched the news unfold last week to learn about allegations that another elected official – this time one... Read More
McCrory: Tills has the best chance of winning
Gov. Pat McCrory waded into North Carolina’s Republican Senate primary Thursday, saying Thom Tillis has the best shot to beat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November. “I think Tillis has the best... Read More
Questions arise on NC public-private economic development partnership
by Craig Jarvis, News and Observer, April 3, 2014. State legislators on Thursday took their first look at the makings of a bill that would create North Carolina’s first public-private economic... Read More
