The year the government broke
In the nearly two decades since the last government shutdown, fierce partisanship, recurrent brinkmanship and routine dysfunction have been the national governing norm. For a full generation, the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
A poker game
A government shutdown’s turned out to be a peculiar sort of beast. First, before a shutdown, every politician – in both parties – declares the government shutting will be terrible. Awful... Read More
McCrory's baffling pride
f it is true that the first step toward solving a problem is admitting that you have one, the scandals and mismanagement at the Department of Health and Human Services will not be ending any time soon... Read More
DHHS needs to open up
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 11, 2013. If Aldona Wos wants to hide what she’s doing at work from public view, she should quit her state job and go to work for a private company. Wos... Read More
Debt Limits
Well, this is just great. Boehner is going to ask Republicans to raise the debt limit. Fantastic. This is the federal equivalent of using a new credit card to pay the bill for the existing credit... Read More
Political Grudges Are Nothing New
Politics can be a brutal, bruising enterprise. If you said that you found the current political climate in Raleigh and Washington to be frustrating, dispiriting, and often juvenile, I’d second that... Read More
Doctor my eyes
So all the DHHS scandals are based on a report that was doctored to mislead legislators and taxpayers. The $87,000 salaries for young campaign aides, lucrative contracts for political allies... Read More
A culture of deceit
On thing is clear. Pat McCrory came to Raleigh with an agenda for Medicaid and he wasn’t about to let pesky facts get in his way. He never has. He found a partisan ideologue to run the Department of... Read More
NC has 3 of the top 10 poorest cities in America
According to Credit.com, the annual American Community Survey has been released and discusses U.S. household income and what areas/cities have the highest and lowest incomes. You can read the... Read More
Is NC Missing its Federal Paycheck?
When we discuss the NC state budget, many times we focus solely on the General Fund and tax revenue. This is not the whole picture and leaves out very pertinent information. North Carolina... Read More
