The Office of State Budget and Management describes the reported year-end state budget hole of $445 million as “disappointing.” It’s not a mere disappointment, however. It’s a symptom of a... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, May 7, 2014. It was one of the basic tenets we learned in PoliSci 101: Play to the party activists in a primary, then scamper back to the center for the general... Read More
North Carolina’s political establishment is fit to be tied. In the May 6 Supreme Court primary Robin Hudson, a Democratic incumbent in an officially nonpartisan race, faced two Republican... Read More
With a legislative battle looming over the extension of state incentives to lure film and TV ventures in the state, a simple, economic reality will be hard for policymakers to overlook. It's the... Read More
State unemployment insurance trust funds, the engines that finance jobless benefits for millions of Americans, were battered by the Great Recession and went deep into debt to meet the demand from the... Read More
Nearly half of respondents in the latest Elon University Poll say the minimum wage should be at least $10 per hour, more people than not believe access to abortion should be made less difficult, and... Read More
In the last week or so before the election, in the midst of conniving to win the Republican primary for Congress, young Phil Berger (and his Super PAC) whacked one opponent as a liberal, another as a... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, May 5, 2014. With the April tax-filing season past, state budget analysts finally have a solid grasp on how last year's tax code overhaul affected revenues. For the... Read More
A letter that crossed my desk one month ago seethed with outrage from the very first word. “Let’s see,” Ernest Keyes wrote. “Fifty years (since the) Civil Rights Act passage. Fifty years of... Read More
Contrary to what often passes for conventional wisdom, North Carolina’s public schools are not broken. In fact, they are educating a more challenging and more diverse student population to higher... Read More
