A second miscalculation
After Democrats ran an ad in State House Districts, something akin to a shockwave rippled down the hallways of the General Assembly, unsettling the less stouthearted Republican legislators. Last... Read More
NC Spin Articles
How you voted determines how you feel
How you feel about Obamacare probably correlates about 100 percent with how you voted in the 2012 election. Unless you already found out you pay more or less for insurance. I’m double-sold. I’m... Read More
Jokers gone wild
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 3, 2013. Norma Copes of Rockford, Ill., was not a happy camper when a reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times found her in the Great Smoky Mountains... Read More
The GOP: Tea for two
The Republican Party shut down government. It’s not a partisan issue. It’s really an internal fight for the control and direction of the GOP. The Tea Party is basically having a temper tantrum and... Read More
Rocky kickoff but big Obamacare welcome
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, October 2, 2013. Was the first day of Obamacare a hit or a miss? Depends on your perspective. It could be both. The technology was a bust. The computer systems set... Read More
NC unemployment down but recovery stalling out
Between August 2012 and August 2013, unemployment rates fell in all 100 of North Carolina’s counties and in all 14 of the state’s metropolitan areas. Over that same period, the size of the labor... Read More
Pittenger: Delay individual mandate a year
by Boston Herald, October 1, 2013. A Republican congressman lashed out at President Obama and downplayed the effect of the government shutdown in an interview on Boston Herald Radio this morning... Read More
Cooper should represent the state in federal lawsuit
Editorial by News and Observer, October 3, 2013. Roy Cooper has served honorably as North Carolina’s attorney general since his election in 2000 and has been re-elected by the people three more... Read More
Medicaid in North Carolina
Before Obamacare, before individual mandates, before exchanges, there was Medicaid. Started in 1965 under President Johnson as part of his War on Poverty, Medicaid extended health insurance coverage... Read More
At the zoo
Sometimes writing this blog is easy. Like today. Below is a reprint – in full, with no cuts or comments – of yesterday’s news release from the Governor’s Communications Office: Press Release... Read More
