Less than a fifth of North Carolina high school graduates who took the ACT test in 2013 have the reading, math, English and science skills needed to succeed in college or a career, according to data... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory is using Facebook to call on lawmakers to sustain two vetoes he issued earlier this month. "Contact your representative, Julia Howard @ 919-733-5904 who represents Davie and Forsyth... Read More
The GOP is at it again -- trying to give damaging policy ideas a pretty name in hopes that Americans will not notice that the ideas themselves are dangerous. In 2002 it was "Clear Skies," introduced... Read More
The day before reporter Sarah Ovaska at NC Policy Watch broke the news that two 24-year-old former campaign staffers for Governor Pat McCrory working at the Department of Health and Human Services... Read More
This Congress has been criticized for not passing many laws — and praised for that in some quarters. And it’s true that in quantitative terms its productivity has been low. A major case in point... Read More
Howard E. Covington Jr. dangles an intriguing historical footnote in his excellent new biography of Greensboro’s Henry Frye. (I’ll write about the book for a future Sunday Ideas section.) The... Read More
I was fortunate enough to be a community college president for 15 years under three governors. I can’t say how many times I heard how valuable we were to the economic well-being of our state. The... Read More
I happened to be at the luncheon yesterday at which John Skvarla, head of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, explained how his agency intends to help the state's economy while also... Read More
On last week's NC SPIN we reported that NC State Economist Mike Walden predicted that North Carolina's unemployment rate would drop from its current 8.8 percent (now 8.9) to 6.8 percent by 2015. Host... Read More
North Carolina’s most famous missing person just will not go away. One main reason is the work of Chatham County’s Marjorie Hudson, an award-winning writer and teacher of writing. Ten years after... Read More
