House pushes to clean up Senate budget "mess"
As the N.C. House puts together its budget this week, the same thought is on the minds of representatives from both parties. “It looks like we’re going to have to clean up the Senate’s mess... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Is the next governor's race already taking shape?
He leaned forward, pouring over page after page of numbers, searching for a lodestar, then stopped: “Republicans are dropping. Democrats are dropping. Independents are going up. There’ll be more... Read More
What divides us on taxes?
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences professor of Economics, May 12, 2017. It was a hot, humid day in 1985. President Reagan was appearing at Reynolds Coliseum. I was in... Read More
What goes around still comes around
by Paul O'Connor, The Insider, published in Wilson Daily Times, May 17, 2017. It was unclear if the dismissive remark was aimed at me or at my column of the day before. “Naпve,” the new Senate... Read More
Partisanship wins again in NC Senate
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, May 18, 2017. In its proposed budget, the Republican-dominated N.C. Senate added $1 million to fund pilot programs battling opioid abuse in North Carolina. Good news... Read More
Baseless accusations of education savings accounts
Last week WRAL-TV and wral.com ran an article on a provision in the Senate education budget that calls for the creation of personal education savings accounts (ESAs) for special needs students... Read More
We can afford better
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, May 17, 2017. State legislators and then-Gov. Pat McCrory last year promised to raise average teacher pay in North Carolina to $50,000. They almost made it... Read More
Follow the money
That’s the guidance Deep Throat gave Bob Woodward through Watergate. It also applies to Trumpgate. (Of course, it’s hard to follow anything given the velocity with which Trump is trampling the... Read More
Show business
CNN said Roger told Donald he ought to fire Comey and Donald Tweeted “Fake news. Have not spoken to Roger in a long time.” Then Roger told ABC he’d spoken to Donald “very recently.” It was... Read More
Veteran House Democrats question the substance and process of Senate budget
Wednesday was the 63rdanniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the milestone U.S. Supreme Court case that ordered an end to racial segregation in American public schools. That fact hasn... Read More
