Tar Heel lawmakers’ efforts to make the state less attractive to sex traffickers are scoring points with the Polaris Project, which announced improved ratings on human trafficking laws in North... Read More
by Michael Warren, The Weekly Standard, August 22, 2013. Renee Ellmers, a sophomore Republican congresswoman from North Carolina, has criticized a conservative group's campaign to get congressional... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory is the first Republican governor in North Carolina to have veto power, but many political observers didn't expect him to use it on a Republican-controlled legislature. McCrory has... Read More
On July 30, Pat McCrory, North Carolina’s Republican governor, walked out of his mansion to a group of women protesting a law he’d signed that they said would close abortion clinics under the... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, August 22, 2013. Local governments, schools and recreation leagues need to be particularly careful about who is allowed to coach or otherwise mentor children and... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News and Record, August 24, 2013. Legislators don’t have to accept Gov. Pat McCrory’s vetoes of two bills passed this summer. “We got pretty good last year at overriding... Read More
The state Department of Health and Human Services has created new high-salaried positions in its central office this year and is paying some top executives more than their predecessors even as the... Read More
Out-of-context reporting can have serious consequences, as evidenced by a letter in today’sNews & Observer: If the quotes attributed to DENR Sec. John Skvarla in the Aug. 20 “Under the Dome... Read More
by John Tinkelberg, Hickory Daily Record, August 22, 2013. Noted neurosurgeon Ben Carson and other speakers sounded a rallying cry for retooled education and reverence to God at the Hickory Metro... Read More
The purported debate over fracking underlies the tragedy of today's liberalism. Once liberals posed as friends of the working man. But now their fears about the environment take precedence over jobs... Read More
