The 'no' refrain
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, October 12, 2013. When it comes to programs for the poor, Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration takes a can’t-do attitude. It said can’t-do to expanding Medicaid... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Our venerable system isn't always venerated
Let me tell you a war story - a true one. You can look it up. In the run-up to the Civil War, pro-slavery Southern lawmakers had worked themselves into such a frenzy that many said, and some actually... Read More
How manufacturing is leading the economic comeback in NC
by Sharon Decker, NC Secretary of Commerce, published in News and Observer, October 11, 2013. I grew up in Gaston County in the shadows of the textile mills. Around the family dinner table our parents... Read More
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
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
