Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, February 21, 2014. North Carolina voters face plenty of important decisions at the polls this year, from county commissioners and sheriffs, to state legislators and... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, February 21, 2014. State Rep. Donny Lambeth is absolutely correct in his comment on the state’s chronic problem with processing food-stamp applications. “It is... Read More
Republicans on Capitol Hill are shifting their strategy to deal with the Affordable Care Act. Instead of calling for a dismantling of the health care law, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and others have... Read More
by Gene Nichol, UNC professor of law, published in News and Observer, February 21, 2014. Last month, scholars at Harvard and Berkeley released a massive study of economic mobility in America’s... Read More
A new state computer system for keeping track of student information has so many problems that the accuracy of transcripts, athletic eligibility and the number of students enrolled in schools is... Read More
More than three-quarters of teachers in North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools met state goals for student gains on test scores, though CMS fell slightly under the state average on new... Read More
Governor McCrory walked into Reid’s Fine Food and ran head on into a cook who proceeded to tell him what he thought of the Governor’s politics; then, the way the cook tells it, the Governor... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, February 19, 2014. The Great North Carolina Food Stamp Crisis has ended - or so it appears. Low-income residents are getting the help they need to buy food. And the... Read More
Norris Tolson, who as president and CEO of the North Carolina Biotechnology Centeremphasized how the life sciences industry adds North Carolina jobs, has created yet another job opening – his own... Read More
As I reflect upon this year’s Emerging Issues Forum, “Teachers and the Great Economic Debate,” the word “grit” keeps coming to mind. As 1,300 people gathered to discuss the best ways for... Read More
