When North Carolina moves its job recruiting and marketing functions to a new public-private partnership later this year, it will join just 12 other states with similar structures in place. And with... Read More
This blog comes from a long-time, active Chamber member. I approve this message: “There’s a political lesson for all of us in the needless maelstrom that has engulfed the Raleigh Chamber of... Read More
I am hurt,” says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. “A plague o' both your houses!” In popular remembrance, we... Read More
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services late Friday announced a $3 million sole source contract for a Washington, D.C.-area consulting firm to fix the problems in the state’s troubled... Read More
Despite falling unemployment rates, most of North Carolina’s metro areas are still waiting for meaningful job creation, according to new numbers released Wednesday by the Division of Employment... Read More
Your first reaction was probably the same as mine. Clay Aiken? The singer? For Congress? Then I met him. He’s the same person you meet in his announcement video. He’s smart, serious and... Read More
Members of the State Board of Education approved today multiple alternative assessment methods for determining third grade reading proficiency, which were put forth by local school districts in an... Read More
by Mark Binker, WRAL, February 6, 2014. Given the hyper-partisan atmosphere surrounding the Affordable Care Act, what some call "Obamacare," the reaction to this week's Congressional Budget Office... Read More
State lawmakers received a postmortem Thursday on a failed effort to build a new tax-processing system – the latest government IT project to run into trouble – and said there has to be a better... Read More
Having authored more than one optimist’s lament in recent years, I am clearly of the opinion that, generally speaking, things are better than they seem — and getting better all the time. We all... Read More
