Job recruitment tangled up with fracking
Editorial by News and Observer, August 6, 2013. One significant but generally overlooked aspect of the recent legislative session was something that didn’t happen. Gov. Pat McCrory’s plan to spur... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The elevator lady
Editorial, Greensboro News and Record, August 3, 2013. Her fame as North Carolina’s elevator lady pushed her to the top of a political poll and inspired a music video (“Cherie Berry Wow”) by... Read More
Making It Tougher to Max Out the State Credit Card
Eighty-two bucks a month. For nearly a decade, that was the price I paid for the student loans that funded my bachelor’s degree. My education wasn’t completely self-financed. My parents helped out... Read More
No child, no chance?
Editorial by News and Observer, August 5, 2013. So House Republicans have approved a bill to dismantle the federal No Child Left Behind law that, ironically, was a product of the George W. Bush White... Read More
McCrory’s school plan good first step
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, August 4, 2013. At a time when teachers and schools are stretched thin, it’s nice to see our governor thinking outside of the box in an effort to strengthen public... Read More
A Congressional Double Standard
Congress has again sold the citizens of the USA a bill of goods to which it is not willing to be bound. This time it is Obamacare, from which the Office of Personnel Management has recently granted... Read More
Purple No More
North Carolina Republicans push through a host of deep red measures Four years ago, liberals thought that North Carolina was in transition, a red state slowly turning blue in President Obama's "new... Read More
Internet connectivity is a matter of survival, not politics
Here we don’t go again. Sure, the Research Triangle is a technology hub, but North Carolina households rank last in the nation in having adequate high-speed access to the Internet. A sorry... Read More
Judging themselves
Editorial by Greensboro News and Record, August 2, 2013. Back in April, two state representatives who are attorneys in private life introduced a little-noticed bill. It aimed to make it easier for... Read More
Truth, or dare
Editorial by News and Observer, August 3, 2013. Saying something doesn’t make it so, goes the old saw, but somewhere along the way Gov. Pat McCrory didn’t pick that one up. In a speech to the... Read More
