Thom Tillis' office door jam
Editorial, News and Observer, July 27, 2013. If House Speaker Thom Tillis, running for the United States Senate, is going to try to make friends on the campaign trail he will have to get used to... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Moves on elections and abortion tarnished legislature's ending
Editorial by News and Observer, July 27, 2013. Leaders of North Carolina’s Republican majority in the General Assembly made mud pies for six months and now want the people to believe they’re ice... Read More
Responsibility on GOP
Editorial in Greenville Daily Reflector, July 26, 2013. The end came swiftly for Billy Ray Hall, who for 25 years served as president of the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. He resigned only... Read More
NC: Poster child for wrong
North Carolina is proving itself to be the poster child for all that is wrong with modern American democracy and – with thanks to Moral Mondays – also highlighting all that may someday save it... Read More
Surveying the damage
It is likely to take a while to figure out everything that happened in the last few days at the General Assembly. Legislative leaders spent the last 48 hours literally making up new bills out of whole... Read More
Correction: Funding Public Education
Note: When our editors submitted this column from former House Speaker Joe Mavretic we incorrectly stated the formula he intended to be used. This is a correction of the previous posting. Joe's intent... Read More
Armed ‘volunteers,' pistol-packing bar patrons get OK from Honorables
Editorial, Wilmington Star News, July 25, 2013. More guns do not automatically make us safer, especially when those guns are permitted in public where people have been known to have impaired judgment... Read More
Letter to the NC General Assembly: I Can No Longer Afford to Teach
By Lindsay Kosmala Furst, in Making Our Way blog, July 25, 2013. Dear members of the North Carolina General Assembly, The language in this letter is blunt because the facts are not pretty. Teaching... Read More
Whistling Past Absentee Voter Fraud
RALEIGH -- Not long before he left the position, former state Elections Director Gary Bartlett warned that one consequence of a voter ID requirement in North Carolina would be a shift toward more... Read More
Nonprofits slimming down, some closing, due to state budget cuts
Durham Herald-Sun, July 25, 2013. The Durham-based N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development already started adjusting programs and staff in reaction to expected state budget cuts, the nonprofit... Read More
