Imagine doubling the number of 50,000 workers at Research Triangle Park's more than 250 companies with the addition of one company: The new Amazon headquarters project. What would be the economic... Read More
by Rob Schofield, NC Policy Watch, October 10, 2017. UNC center’s latest report on poverty provides powerful reminder of the communities and individuals being left behind When you consider the... Read More
A new UNC Board of Governors Task Force began what members called the “massive” job of analyzing UNC President Margaret Spellings’ administrative staff Monday. The effort is so far long on... Read More
by Dale Folwell, Treasurer of North Carolina, printed in Jacksonville Daily News, October 10, 2017. The North Carolina Department of State Treasurer (DST) touches the lives of one in ten North... Read More
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, October 10, 2017. North Carolina’s system of selecting trial judges needs to be reformed, but not in the way some legislators want. The state has two parallel... Read More
A well-educated, highly productive workforce, access to markets and suppliers, sound infrastructure, and a high quality of life for employees are more important to corporate leaders than state... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, October 10, 2017. North Carolina Republicans gerrymandered their way into a hammer-lock on the state legislature, which they will control indefinitely, barring... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, October 13, 2017. A brand new state run aquarium in Pender County -- barely 30 miles as the crow flies from the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher -- probably doesn’t... Read More
Editorial by Wilson Daily Times, October 10, 2017. Businesses whose survival depends on adapting to market conditions are more innovative, more nimble - and thus more effective - than government when... Read More
Here we go again. Another special session of the General Assembly begins Wednesday at noon and no one other than a handful of legislative leaders is exactly sure what lawmakers will be discussing... Read More
