NC Needs More Competition
Competition is an indispensable tool for promoting efficiency, innovation, and excellence. Its virtues are evident in virtually every field of human endeavor, including commerce, athletics, science... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Reality check on unemployment taxes
You don’t have to listen to the political debate in North Carolina for long before someone brings up the $2.8 billion the state owes the federal government for unemployment insurance funds the state... Read More
Dismantling the Dix Legacy: The End of Compassion
The physical abandonment of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh is a final exclamation point on the state’s moral abandonment of the mentally ill, essentially returning us to mid-19th century... Read More
Will Jobs and the Economy be the focus of a new General Assembly and Governor in 2013?
by Jeanne Milliken Bonds When Republicans took control of both North Carolina legislative chambers after the 2010 election, they advanced an agenda driven by big contributors, not good policies... Read More
Can the Undervote Decide the Election
In Presidential Elections, great effort is made to try to identify the voting group that will ‘make the difference’ between victory and defeat. This year, the race in North Carolina could be... Read More
Education Points to Ponder
The latest word from the State Board of Education is graduation rates for North Carolina are at an all-time high, 80%. Yet polls suggest confidence in public schools has declined dramatically. Let us... Read More
Making Crime (And Mere Accusations Of It) Pay
Giant corporations rake in big money in the corrections and detention business It’s perhaps the ultimate irony of the modern move to downsize and privatize government that two of the major ills that... Read More
The Regulatory Burden Soars
RALEIGH — As Democrats and Republicans in this election year continue to debate the optimal level, type, and distribution of the tax burden, they are paying insufficient attention to what I believe... Read More
Passing the Torch
Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill was filled with princes and paupers gathered to pay tribute to Bill Friday. This wonderful memorial to an iconic leader was punctuated by the benediction from his longtime... Read More
Bill Friday: North Carolina's Greatest Friend
Everyone is struggling to find superlatives to adequately describe Bill Friday and I suspect all feel inadequate in finding the right words. I think it enough to say that he was North Carolina’s... Read More
