A House plan to make major cuts to food stamps would be scaled back under a bipartisan agreement on a massive farm bill, a near end to a more than two-year fight that has threatened to hurt rural... Read More
Throughout the debate of a sweeping voter ID and elections law bill, Republican supporters said it was an attempt to restore public confidence in the election process. Democrats, at the state and... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, January 26, 2014. It was, from the beginning, all about right-wing ideology and not at all about women’s health, as proponents of the law designed to limit abortion... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 26, 2014. Only days after Gov. Pat McCrory’s pledge to get N.C. teachers a needed pay increase, one Republican legislative leader was showing how difficult... Read More
Ever since the disastrous launch of the Obamacare insurance exchanges in October, supporters of the so-called Affordable Care Act have insisted that things were destined to get better. They said that... Read More
by Gene Nichol, UNC Professor of Law, published in News and Observer, January 25, 2014. The troubling correlation between education and poverty places North Carolina reform efforts in odd posture. For... Read More
Debates about the economic policies adopted last year by Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly have generated more heat than light. Nowhere has the discussion gotten more confused than with the... Read More
by Sharon Decker, NC Secretary of Commerce, published in Charlotte Observer, January 25, 2014. Since the day Gov. Pat McCrory took office, the unemployment rate has dropped two points and more North... Read More
Laura Hawks wasn’t overly concerned when the company where she worked as an office manager shut down in September 2011. The Garner resident was confident in her abilities and her track record and... Read More
