Published in Winston-Salem Journal, January 3, 2014. The State Board of Education must decide whether it will replace state-written standardized tests with national exams, a decision freighted with... Read More
While the Republican-controlled General Assembly, Gov. Pat McCrory and many across the state welcomed the news of the overall unemployment figures dropping sharply to 2009 levels, there are others who... Read More
The Republicans’ all-out effort to defeat U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat from Greensboro, is the biggest political battle looming in North Carolina in 2014, but a handful of other campaigns will... Read More
by Senator Kay Hagan, Published in Charlotte Observer, January 3, 2014. North Carolina is accustomed to standing out from the rest of the nation – for being the most military-friendly, for having... Read More
Groups unhappy with the North Carolina legislative and congressional districts drawn three years ago by the General Assembly have asked the state Supreme Court to delay this year’s primary elections... Read More
North Carolina has just run an experiment about what happens when unemployment benefits run out: Many jobless people go get jobs. The state's unemployment rate has fallen markedly, and this may be... Read More
by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group, published in News and Observer, January 2, 2014. First order of business for the returning Congress: The No Bailout for Insurance Companies Act... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, January 2, 2014. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the United States fulfilled a resolution that went unkept in many earlier years. It finally did something to increase... Read More
Privatize! That’s what conservatives often push when government workers do a job poorly. But that’s not a viable alternative when government workers keep making problematic hiring (and firing... Read More
Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you'll get some dreary visions. Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of... Read More
