It is not just health care for 30 million people at stake these days. Democracy is hanging by a thread too-in Raleigh and in Washington. First, consider the spectacle of Sen. John McCain, arriving... Read More
It’s not an original thought to point out that the Trump Administration is a larger version of what has been happening in North Carolina for the last seven years, a takeover by far-right ideologues... Read More
State legislative leaders this week dismissed a report by their own nonpartisan legislative staff showing the latest round of tax changes will create a budget shortfall of more than a billion dollars... Read More
As the 2017 General Assembly session draws to a close, reporters, pundits and partisans will all soon be putting their session wrap-ups together, reminding us all of what has happened in the last six... Read More
Most of the initial headlines about the final budget agreement announced Monday afternoon by legislative leaders were ones they could have written themselves, touting raises for teachers and state... Read More
Legislative leaders are scrambling for their political lives after the conservative U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the legislative districts they drew to lock in the power they gained in the... Read More
House and Senate leaders are now meeting behind closed doors trying to work out the differences between the budgets passed by each chamber and come up with a final spending agreement. It is an annual... Read More
Since the Senate passed its disastrous budget, bad reviews keep rolling in about the choices Senate leaders made and the process they used to make them. Sen. Phil Berger and his staff are still busy... Read More
The most shameful thing about the disastrous budget passed by the Senate two weeks ago is not the vindictive 3:00 a.m. budget cuts to education programs in Democrats’ districts. It’s not the... Read More
The last week has featured some of the most offensive, belligerent, and vindictive behavior by elected officials in generations—and that is not a reference to President Trump and his associates in... Read More
