GOP debacle
For Republicans, the shutdown turned into a slapdown and the default into their fault. The GOP lost the debate, lost the battle for public opinion and put itself in a deep, deep hole for the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NAACP: Newby should step aside
The groups challenging North Carolina legislative and congressional districts are again asking the state Supreme Court to have Justice Paul Newby step aside from hearing the case. Lawyers representing... Read More
Meck Commissioners to Legislature: Reconsider Medicaid Expansion
Mecklenburg County commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday urging state lawmakers to reconsider turning down billions in federal money that would expand Medicaid coverage to 500,000 uninsured North... Read More
Threatening Fifty Years of Progress in Ten Months
by Roy Cooper, NC Attorney General, Huffington Post, October 14, 2013. He was a soft-spoken man. And when he stepped to the microphone that January afternoon, no one in his audience could have... Read More
Durham challenged to lose 140 tons
Most people don’t break into dance after a press conference, but more than 50 did Monday. They were practicing what they preached: Exercise is good. It was the kickoff to a city-county initiative... Read More
Can the potty jokes
Spend $230,000 in taxpayers’ money fixing up the private bathrooms at the Executive Mansion? You could hear howls across the state when that news leaked. (Get it? “Leaked”?) OK, time out. No... Read More
A Doc speaks out on Obamacare
My patients are not signing up for the new Obamacare insurance at the New York State exchange. Not a single patient so far. A few have tried, but they haven’t managed to get past the bureaucracy and... Read More
State donations help food banks
Gov. Pat McCrory was in Charlotte this morning to announce that he was releasing $750,000 in state funds to the seven regional food banks that are part of the North Carolina Association of Feeding... Read More
Bowles calls for leaders to settle differences in TV ad
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson will be featured in a national TV ad campaign that pushes for an end to the impasse in Washington. The Campaign to Fix the Debt ad begins Tuesday, and in it Bowles and... Read More
NC's failure to expand Medicaid takes its toll
Editorial by News and Observer, October 14, 2013. How easy it was for Gov. McCrory and Republican leaders of the General Assembly to ignore the consequences of their decision to reject the federal... Read More
