The political payroll
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 30,2013. If a government agency’s overall payroll is down, does it matter if some of its top employees get really big salaries? That depends on what the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NAACP won't agree to Moral Monday plea bargains
by WTVD, August 30, 2013. Plea bargains that would avoid hundreds of trials for Moral Monday protestors arrested at the North Carolina General Assembly appeared to hit a stumbling block Friday when... Read More
I Have an Unanswered Question
Call me a policy nerd if you like. I don’t mind. ??Part of my job involves commissioning, reading, interpreting, and writing about public policy research. As I began researching my 2012 book on... Read More
Sheriffs: Sustain McCrory's veto
from press release from Governor's office, August 30, 2013. Sheriffs from various counties across the state are expressing their support for Governor Pat McCrory’s veto of the Reclaim North Carolina... Read More
Remember Benghazi
The United States response to the Syrian government's use of nerve gas on its own people is complex. Some say we should attack with enough air asset forces to topple the regime. Still others want to... Read More
Officials OK rule to force fracking on NC landowners
North Carolina landowners would be forced to sell the natural gas under their homes and farms – whether they want to or not – under a fracking recommendation approved Wednesday that’s expected... Read More
Brushing aside the governor, again
It now seems very likely that Republican lawmakers will ignore the wishes of Republican Governor Pat McCrory next week and vote to override his vetoes of two bills, one that would require drug testing... Read More
Student Congress cuts college Republicans
In a seemingly shocking move, the UNC Student Congress voted to cut the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College Republican’s budget from last year by 75% in one fell swoop. On Tuesday... Read More
Protect election integrity
Law I signed ensures North Carolina will remain a national leader in ballot access. Imagine if the Transportation Security Administration decided airline passengers no longer need a photo ID... Read More
If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person
You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best... Read More
