When N.C. justices were impeached
Howard E. Covington Jr. dangles an intriguing historical footnote in his excellent new biography of Greensboro’s Henry Frye. (I’ll write about the book for a future Sunday Ideas section.) The... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Fund, don't just praise community colleges
I was fortunate enough to be a community college president for 15 years under three governors. I can’t say how many times I heard how valuable we were to the economic well-being of our state. The... Read More
DENR Chief Vows to Protect Economy and Environment
I happened to be at the luncheon yesterday at which John Skvarla, head of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, explained how his agency intends to help the state's economy while also... Read More
Mike Walden responds to NC SPIN
On last week's NC SPIN we reported that NC State Economist Mike Walden predicted that North Carolina's unemployment rate would drop from its current 8.8 percent (now 8.9) to 6.8 percent by 2015. Host... Read More
Happy Birthday Virginia Dare
North Carolina’s most famous missing person just will not go away. One main reason is the work of Chatham County’s Marjorie Hudson, an award-winning writer and teacher of writing. Ten years after... Read More
Progressives and Blacks
Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN’s Piers Morgan’s interview with the key witness in the George... Read More
The Republican gamble
Republicans are taking a huge gamble. After a legislative session that left their approval ratings in the tank and managed to alienate everybody but their own true believers, the GOP is attempting... Read More
When Education and Politics Collide
When educational statistics and state politics collide, the results can be cringe-inducing. A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of... Read More
State unemployment rate rises
from The Carolina Mercury, August 19, 2013. The state’s seasonally adjusted July unemployment rate was 8.9 percent, increasing 0.1 of a percentage point from June’s revised rate. The national rate... Read More
Berger not sounding like he's poised to challenge Hagan
Senate leader Phil Berger was not sounding like a many ready to jump into the race with Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan next year when he showed up on an Eastern North Carolina radio station last week. "I... Read More
