Pat McCrory, Jim Martin not so different
See if you can identify this N.C. governor. During his successful election campaign, he argued that business taxes were discouraging employers from locating or expanding in North Carolina. “I’m... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Cooper’s bid for governor looks ready to launch in ’16
Roy Cooper has touched this button before. He’s never actually pushed it. By all accounts, he plans to do so this time around. Prominent political insiders in Raleigh had been saying for weeks that... Read More
McCrory Administration Officials Suppressed Insight Into Medicaid
Soon after taking control in Raleigh in early 2013, people hired by Gov. Pat McCrory to run the Department of Health and Human Services made strategic edits to the departmental response to State... Read More
NC DHHS comes up short on answers after meeting with legislators
After grilling leaders at the state Department of Health and Human Services for about nine hours on Tuesday about flawed programs and high salaries, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed... Read More
Overconfident
What if Obamacare flops? What if the public has sticker shock? What if voters blame both sides for the shutdown? From the White House down, Democrats seem awfully confident the shutdown-Obamacare... Read More
The problem with the truth at DHHS
The biggest story this week about the troubled state Department of Health and Human Services has nothing to do with the testimony of embattled DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos before a legislative oversight... Read More
New push for immigration action is overdue
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 8, 2013. The national debate over immigration reform is often couched in inflammatory language about low-skill workers who entered the country illegally... Read More
Subsidy surprises and other ACA nonsense
President Obama said that if you liked your health insurance plan, nothing would change under the Affordable Care Act. Based on reports of skyrocketing premiums, the president must have had his... Read More
Shutdown: The tea party’s last stand
If the nation is lucky, this October will mark the beginning of the end of the tea party. The movement is suffering from extreme miscalculation and a foolish misreading of its opponents’ intentions... Read More
Eat your broccoli
Republicans in Congress have been trying to shift the blame for the shut down onto Democrats ever since they started it. It’s been a losing battle so far. Polls show people are increasingly holding... Read More
