Despite recent superficial improvement in North Carolina’s unemployment rate, persistent joblessness continues to plague the state’s workers and hinder the state’s recovery from the Great... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, December 9, 2013. As we’ve been told many times, newspapers are notorious for spending an awful lot of time reporting bad news. So, how about we flip the... Read More
The technology chief at the state Department of Health and Services told legislators Tuesday the agency's new computer system for processing Medicaid claims is working well, despite a critical audit... Read More
Never mind South Carolina. North Carolina’s public school students are outperforming students in Israel and Sweden. That’s according to a new U.S. Department of Education study that recently... Read More
Parties who are a gulf apart over what laws should be in place to ensure fair and open elections are just as widely divided about how quickly a lawsuit challenging new voter laws should be heard in... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, December 11, 2013. She’s attractive and flashy, and she has suitors going ga-ga, whistling at her, showing her bling and offering her anything she wants. She’s... Read More
Health care costs too much.” That sounds like a simple statement, and one with which most people would readily agree. In reality, however, the statement has multiple meanings. How you read it can... Read More
After several months of declining poll numbers that saw Kay Hagan go from leading her potential GOP opponents by double digits to being effectively tied with most of them, her numbers have leveled out... Read More
A week after a picketing campaign began at his family’s stores, Art Pope responded to critics in a letter that says he is “shocked” by the tactics being used against him. The letter is a... Read More
by Renee Schoof, Under the Dome, The News and Observer, December 19, 2013. House Speaker Tom Tillis, a Republican who wants to run against Sen. Kay Hagan next year, spoke at the North Carolina Farm... Read More
