With the departure of Medicaid Director Carol Steckel, the Governor and the Secretary of Health & Human Services have an excellent opportunity to hit the re-set button. It’s been a tough week for... Read More
by Craig Jarvis, Under the Dome, The News and Observer, October 11, 2013. House Speaker Thom Tillis on Friday announced endorsements of his U.S. Senate campaign by several Republican members of his... Read More
Hidden agendas can be dangerous, particularly when the goal is to influence public opinion with political attacks in the guise of impartial journalism. Recently, a supposedly “independent, not-for... Read More
The legislature’s gendarmes were searching in all the wrong places. General Assembly Police Chief Jeff Weaver revealed this week that his 18-officer department is collecting intel on “anarchists... Read More
Things went from the ridiculous to the absurd this week at the troubled state Department of Health and Human Services. The same day that embattled Secretary Aldona Wos and her top deputies were... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 12, 2013. When it comes to programs for the poor, Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration takes a can’t-do attitude. It said can’t-do to expanding Medicaid... Read More
Let me tell you a war story - a true one. You can look it up. In the run-up to the Civil War, pro-slavery Southern lawmakers had worked themselves into such a frenzy that many said, and some actually... Read More
by Sharon Decker, NC Secretary of Commerce, published in News and Observer, October 11, 2013. I grew up in Gaston County in the shadows of the textile mills. Around the family dinner table our parents... Read More
In the nearly two decades since the last government shutdown, fierce partisanship, recurrent brinkmanship and routine dysfunction have been the national governing norm. For a full generation, the... Read More
A government shutdown’s turned out to be a peculiar sort of beast. First, before a shutdown, every politician – in both parties – declares the government shutting will be terrible. Awful... Read More
