Hunt got it wrong
If state leaders want to improve North Carolina’s education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state. Unfortunately, the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Feds proposed shift in poultry rules troubling
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 20, 2014. Warning horns should blast full force around the Obama administration approving a change in federal law to replace most federal inspectors on poultry... Read More
Tillis' 1984
Thom Tillis is walking the same tightrope that Jim Hunt walked in his U.S. Senate race 30 years ago. But Tillis’ balance is even more precarious. Tillis today, like Hunt then, has to appeal to... Read More
McCrory and Medicaid
Despite all the bumbling and fumbling in his state health agency, Gov. Pat McCrory and his embattled agency secretary, Aldona Wos, may finally be poised for a small policy and political victory. Or... Read More
Leadership crisis at DHHS a persistent liability
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 20, 2014. A group representing more than 12,500 medical professionals calls the system a "poorly tested, defective and very expensive software product." But... Read More
Challenge to execution protocol to be argued in Court of Appeals
The execution of an Ohio inmate last week sparked a new round of intense debate about what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” for prisoners sentenced to death. In the Ohio death chamber... Read More
Why should I stay in North Carolina to teach?
Governor McCrory, I need your help. I am a teacher educator at UNC-Greensboro, and this semester I have 24 student teachers who are preparing to teach social studies to middle and high schoolers. One... Read More
King's words changed a nation
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 19, 2014. Many have expressed eloquent comments about the life, death and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But his own voice echoes most strongly... Read More
MLK holiday celebrates a man and an ongoing movement
Editorial by News and Observer, January 19, 2014. There had been a bomb threat against the plane that was taking Martin Luther King Jr. on his fateful flight to Memphis that April day in 1968. And the... Read More
Remember King, tackle economic woes
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 19, 2014. Toward the end of his life, Martin Luther King had turned his attention and his powerful voice toward a subject that has a firm grip on the United... Read More
