Political Grudges Are Nothing New
Politics can be a brutal, bruising enterprise. If you said that you found the current political climate in Raleigh and Washington to be frustrating, dispiriting, and often juvenile, I’d second that... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Doctor my eyes
So all the DHHS scandals are based on a report that was doctored to mislead legislators and taxpayers. The $87,000 salaries for young campaign aides, lucrative contracts for political allies... Read More
A culture of deceit
On thing is clear. Pat McCrory came to Raleigh with an agenda for Medicaid and he wasn’t about to let pesky facts get in his way. He never has. He found a partisan ideologue to run the Department of... Read More
NC has 3 of the top 10 poorest cities in America
According to Credit.com, the annual American Community Survey has been released and discusses U.S. household income and what areas/cities have the highest and lowest incomes. You can read the... Read More
Is NC Missing its Federal Paycheck?
When we discuss the NC state budget, many times we focus solely on the General Fund and tax revenue. This is not the whole picture and leaves out very pertinent information. North Carolina... Read More
More conservative, less Republican
The conservative project has two main parts: first, winning the argument, and, second, winning elections. The first is a job for what we call the conservative movement, meaning everything from... Read More
New trade bill would be disastrous to NC
Job growth in North Carolina is going in the wrong direction. The most recent government data revealed a surprising increase in the state’s unemployment rate – now the third-highest unemployment... Read More
Pat McCrory, Jim Martin not so different
See if you can identify this N.C. governor. During his successful election campaign, he argued that business taxes were discouraging employers from locating or expanding in North Carolina. “I’m... Read More
Cooper’s bid for governor looks ready to launch in ’16
Roy Cooper has touched this button before. He’s never actually pushed it. By all accounts, he plans to do so this time around. Prominent political insiders in Raleigh had been saying for weeks that... Read More
McCrory Administration Officials Suppressed Insight Into Medicaid
Soon after taking control in Raleigh in early 2013, people hired by Gov. Pat McCrory to run the Department of Health and Human Services made strategic edits to the departmental response to State... Read More
