Walden: Unemployment to drop to 6.8%
According to one N.C. State University professor’s index of North Carolina’s leading economic indicators, the state’s economy has shown modest growth since last year and will continue to grow... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Perdue spends $1.2M from campaign fund
Former North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has closed her campaign accounts, distributing the more than $1.2 million political war chest raised for her derailed 2012 re-election bid. Nearly... Read More
What happened to the talk about jobs?
Remember all that talk about creating jobs during the 2012 campaign? What happened? We barely heard the word “jobs” during the entire, painful legislative session. We heard plenty about motorcycle... Read More
State Education Spending Facts
We’ve all heard the dire predictions about the Republican-passed budget: “They’re going to decimate the whole public education system in this state!” and “This proposed budget will set back... Read More
The Top 10 Republican mistakes
We were jockeying for position in the Target store in Raleigh, the moms and kids and I all racing for the pens, pads and back-to-school bargains on the last-ever sales tax holiday weekend in North... Read More
Time for careful reading by the governor
When Governor Pat McCrory finally gets around to reading the voter suppression bill he promised last week to sign even though he admitted he wasn’t familiar with all its provisions, he will find a... Read More
N. C. Voter laws restrict ballot access
Marc Landry came close to the truth in his July 31 column “New voting safeguards don’t go far enough.” All that people must do to register to vote is to certify under oath they’re an American... Read More
A federal carrot for N.C. teachers
Ron Paul’s views on the Department of Education are clear and easily understood. He views the agency as an unconstitutional bureaucracy that squanders billions of dollars that would be much better... Read More
