Action and inaction
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 17, 2018. There’s a good reason why former Greensboro Mayor Bill Knight doesn’t see his neighbor and state representative, Pricey Harrison, around that... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Work exemption may mean Medicaid expansion
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 16, 2018. It was a surprising to see last week that North Carolina is one of the state’s seeking a federal exemption that would allow it to require... Read More
It's time to halt redistricting gamesmanship
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 18, 2018. The judges got it right: Give North Carolina’s Republican gerrymandering team another break and we’ll end up in the same mess we’ve been in... Read More
Until we talk about race we're all dead in the water
There is a slide inside the Durham Public Schools report on suspensions that I suppose is meant to reassure folks. Ninety-two percent of DPS students received no suspensions last school year, it says... Read More
The Pearsall Plan revisited
In the wake of the Brown v. the Board of Education decision in 1954 that ruled segregated schools are unconstitutional, Southern states started looking for ways around the decision. In North Carolina... Read More
Like a politician
Hardly anyone likes politicians drawing districts to elect themselves but, to rip apart the Congressional Districts Republicans drew, Judge James Wynn spun a tale full of fictions. Judge Wynn... Read More
The truth about North Carolina's state budget
As focus turns to the state budget this spring, liberals will predictably claim that the state budget has been “slashed” or “cut to the bone” Reality, however, shows that the state budget has... Read More
Former judge thinks judicial reform could lead to Supreme Court stacking
Nothing is off the table when it comes to Republican judicial reform, and a former Wake County judge thinks court packing may still be an option. Donald Stephens has been using his newfound retirement... Read More
GenX solutions require scarce commodity: cooperation
The state legislature’s one-day session on Jan. 10 turned out to be a failure and a waste of the roughly $42,000 it costs to send lawmakers to Raleigh for a special session. When legislators set the... Read More
NC could pick up 1 additional Congressional seat after 2020 census
Every decade, following the decennial Census, the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are allocated to the 50 states based on their population. After the 2000 Census, 12 House seats shifted... Read More
