Who's got the biggest house?
Here is a newspaper headline from last week: “A 'palace' in NC: One of the state's largest homes is for sale.” Must be the Biltmore House in Asheville, I thought. Then I kept reading. No, the... Read More
NC Spin Articles
2018-19 budget off to a good start
For the first time in recent memory, the General Assembly is well underway in putting together the state budget before session has even started. For fiscal conservatives, anyone interested in sound... Read More
Access to high quality, affordable health care
North Carolina ranks 44thin the nation in access to health care. That’s an average of access across the state. When you consider that we have great access in some parts of the state – those close... Read More
The Truth Hurts
Sometimes the truth hurts. More precisely, the truth hurts when somebody calls you on what you have been purporting to be the truth. I imagine that the folks from the ultra-conservative Foundation for... Read More
Should we pay Amazon to come to North Carolina?
by Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, May 3, 2018. The “final 4” is over; now it’s time for the “final 20.” What sport is this, you say? It’s for the “Amazon Cup” – the... Read More
Cooper retains some McCrory policies
If North Carolina Democrats hoped — and North Carolina Republicans feared — that a Roy Cooper administration would represent a clean break from the administration of former Gov. Pat McCrory, both... Read More
Judge government by value added
Want to know why conservatives are more skeptical than progressives of the idea of government confiscating more of our money to throw at social programs? I’ve already given you the answer in my... Read More
How facts and values divide us
The United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized country but doesn’t get better results, as measured by average life expectancy. Have you heard this claim before? Did you... Read More
Partisan elections shouldn't lead to a partisan judiciary
Politics have no place in our court system in North Carolina or any place else. Fairness deserves better than that, equality deserves better than that, and justice deserves better than that.” Fine... Read More
S.O.S.: Calling for Erskine Bowles
by D. G. Martin, One on One and host of NC Bookwatch on UNC-TV, April 15, 2018. Where is Erskine Bowles when we most need him? Bowles is best known to North Carolinians as president of the UNC System... Read More
