Employment and income growth in the Raleigh market will outpace the nation for the rest of 2013 and into 2014, but all the new workers migrating into the region will keep the unemployment rate... Read More
North Carolina politicians face many difficult decisions. Whether to subsidize professional sports with tax dollars isn’t one of them. The answer should be no, not a dollar, not a dime. If you like... Read More
Twenty years ago, the notion of a Republican-controlled Arkansas was unthinkable. But as the state readies for 2014’s hotly contested governor’s race, Republicans have a shot at cementing their... Read More
The new voter ID law is being used to paint the new GOP legislature and governor in the nastiest terms possible, even though the charges do not hold up under scrutiny. Protesters who suggest this law... Read More
Luke Cranford has been active in organized opposition to fracking in Lee County for more than a year, concerned about chemical spills and disruptions to the area’s bucolic landscape. But a proposal... Read More
Mike Flynn made some interesting comments yesterday on Breitbart about an article that appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday. He argued that Tea Party influence over the past four years... Read More
Dear Pat, I had such high hopes for us, expressed in “My Love Letter” to you back in April. I eagerly followed your campaign, excited for a much-needed change in administration for our state, only... Read More
Thank you, Colin Powell, for speaking truth to North Carolina power. Republican leaders who shrug it off will do so at considerable peril. The former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint... Read More
The Affordable Care Act is back in news lately. But most of the headlines have not been about the benefits offered by the law, the millions of people it has already helped, or the upcoming enrollment... Read More
Governor McCrory should have hung around to hear Colin Powell. He would have seen a real leader. He might have learned something. Presumably, McCrory had “boring stuff” to do that was more... Read More
