Republicans may begin 2014 with an advantage in the midterm elections, new polling shows. A CNN/ORC poll found that voters would prefer a Republican congressional candidate over a Democratic one by... Read More
Stop the (textbook) presses! On their face, the numbers are frightening. During the last financial crisis, the state cut yearly funding for textbooks from $111 million to $2.5 million. While some of... Read More
Large number of Americans see 2013 as anything but a banner year and aren't reluctant to wave goodbye on New Year's Eve, a new AP-Times Square poll says, reflecting anxiety stretching from the... Read More
While many North Carolinians might take home a little more of their paycheck next year, they will likely be spending more of it as well. Lawmakers passed a major tax reform package in July that lowers... Read More
A higher education riddle: When can a college slash tuition by almost half, without losing revenues? Answer: When nobody much pays full tuition anyway. When Converse College, a tiny women’s college... Read More
If 2013 is remembered as the year when a conservative supermajority rolled into Raleigh and turned North Carolina’s moderate reputation on its head, it must also be appreciated as a time when those... Read More
I wonder how many of the middle-class Tea Party supporters realize that they have been had. The billionaires who are the guiding hands behind Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works are looking out... Read More
Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can’t be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let’s look at... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 25, 2013. The State Board of Elections rightly sent a strong message to their local counterparts at its late December meeting: You must assure that... Read More
North Carolina’s unemployment rate has fallen more than other states’ this year, and changes in the state’s unemployment system may be a contributor, Wells Fargo Securities economist Mark Vitner... Read More
