A broken model
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 12, 2013. Raise your hand if you cheered (or jeered) well past your bedtime during North Carolina’s improbable upset of No. 1 Michigan State last week... Read More
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Health care law to crimp US hiring
Corporate financial chiefs say they expect to reduce hiring and also move more jobs to part-time status as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey from Duke University and CFO... Read More
Lawsuit challenges vouchers for NC private schools
he battle over private school vouchers in North Carolina is headed to court. On Wednesday, 25 plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court, calling the state’s voucher program an... Read More
North Carolina's legislature hasn't come for me...yet
During the state legislature’s frenzied shredding of the safety net for those most in need in North Carolina, I kept thinking of the Niemoller quote. You know the one. “First they came for the... Read More
Nearly 9,000 in NC have now signed up for subsidized insurance
Nearly 9,000 people in North Carolina have signed up for individual insurance through the glitch-plagued healthcare.gov website, federal officials said Wednesday. The enrollment numbers are an... Read More
North Carolina continues to lag nation in job creation and is moving in the wrong direction
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
Unemployment rates offer reason to cheer
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
DHHS staff defends NC Tracks
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
NC's kids are doing better than you think
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
Challengers of new NC voting regulations want 2014 trial; state officials push for delay
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
