Modern taxation without representation
Most of us enjoy going on a vacation or two during the year, and that usually involves spending the night in a hotel or rental accommodation. Did you know that you are taxed on that hotel room and... Read More
NC Spin Articles
New $1.5 million NC branding campaign to launch soon
If you’ve heard a great state slogan, you don’t forget it. Michigan — a cold, economically depressed place to many folks in North Carolina — has done a pretty good job of jazzing up its image... Read More
Life after Obamacare
The ice melting under Republicans’ feet isn’t climate change, it’s Obamacare. The issue on which they bet the house this year may be disappearing. A poll this month in North Carolina... Read More
Tweak, don't dump Common Core
Editorial by Durham News-Herald, April 29, 2014. The Common Core educational standards adopted by nearly every state are caught up in a political storm and fury that has forged unusual alliances and... Read More
Big money attack turns Supreme Court race ugly
Four years ago, Superior Court Judge Eric Levinson issued an extraordinary order. He overturned the jury’s guilty verdict in a burglary case against a man whose conviction would have made him a... Read More
Palin endorses Jones' opponent for Congress
One of this year's few endangered Republican incumbents is not a "moderate," or an establishment figure, or a lover of TARP. He's Rep. Walter Jones, a 10-term congressman who turned hard against the... Read More
Triangle jobless rate increases, worrisome trend in the middle
The Triangle unemployment rate edged up in March despite the region adding 3,700 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis during the month. The jobless rate increased two-tenths of a percentage point to... Read More
McCrory changing the funding formula for higher education
Before speaking further, the governor acknowledged he was stepping on some toes. With the president of Methodist University sitting next to him and the chancellor of Fayetteville State University in... Read More
Will the road formula stick?
Last year Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly managed to accomplish something that many longtime legislative observers thought was highly improbable if not impossible: a substantial rewrite of... Read More
Tillis breaks open NC Senate primary
PPP's newest Republican Senate poll finds Thom Tillis breaking away from the pack and in a very strong position to avoid a runoff election: he's at 46% to 20% for Greg Brannon, 11% for Mark Harris... Read More
