A legislative oversight committee heard the latest update about the Medicaid budget this week and the news was mixed. The state program is facing a shortfall of $130 million this year, smaller than... Read More
f you want to understand the troubling state of the current political debate in North Carolina, the recent Ashe County Republican Party Convention is a good place to start. The Jefferson Post reports... Read More
The folks at the think tanks on the Right are upset that the absurd anti-Affordable Care Act show at the General Assembly this week didn’t garner the one-sided stories they had hoped for about the... Read More
In the early days of the 2013 General Assembly session, just a few weeks after the inauguration of Governor Pat McCrory, leaders of the state Senate were rushing a bill through the chamber to refuse... Read More
North Carolina still ranks 46th in the country in teacher pay according the latest rankings released this week by the National Education Association. And it looks it will be a while before that... Read More
There has never been an African-American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and for some reason Senator Richard Burr seems intent on keeping it that... Read More
The latest Elon University Poll finds that just 28 percent of North Carolinians approve of the job the General Assembly is doing. You might think that would worry Republican legislative leaders who... Read More
McCrory’s reform to “support teachers” Governor Pat McCrory told the N.C. Chamber this week that his top two priorities were to reform education to “support teachers” and to invest more in... Read More
The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next month on legislation that would help 28 million workers across the country and 21 million children. The bill would benefit more than a million workers in North... Read More
Here is something you might have missed in all the coverage of the massive coal ash spill into the Dan River at a shuttered Duke Energy plant on Feb. 2. There are a total of 31 coal ash ponds at... Read More
