NC dodged a healthcare bullet
Editorial by The Charlotte Observer, reprinted in The Burlington Times-News, September 29, 2017. The Graham-Cassidy health care bill appears to be mercifully dead, as Senate Majority leader Mitch... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NC loses in high stakes incentives game
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, reprinted in Jacksonville Daily News, September 28, 2017. We weren’t even close. The winner played Major League Baseball. We barely made it to Little League. When... Read More
College students and free speech: reason to worry
From Middlebury to Berkeley, Chapel Hill to Minnesota, battles over free speech are raging on America’s college campuses. Student protests and recent incidents involving violence and loss of life... Read More
Toxic politics wins out on GenX response
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, September 24, 2017. We confess that we’ve been terribly naive. When we found out that an unregulated and possibly harmful chemical was being deliberately... Read More
Take time with judicial tinkering
While legislative and congressional districts are redrawn every 10 years to match population changes — so everyone’s vote counts equally — North Carolina’s judicial districts haven’t been... Read More
New health care bill, same pernicious plot
The latest effort in Washington to repeal and not actually replace the Affordable Care Act has a different name, the Cassidy-Graham plan, but it should look familiar. It is essentially a proposal like... Read More
Quicken the pace on school reform
The annual testing data and report cards for North Carolina’s public schools are out. Here are the headlines. Achievement rose in some areas and declined in others, with most changes being fairly... Read More
Legislative leaders warn Cooper, commission on statue removal
Legislative leaders on Thursday fired shots across the bow of Gov. Roy Cooper and the state Historical Commission in the ongoing battle over Confederate monuments on public grounds in North Carolina... Read More
A public utility?
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, September 22, 2017. This week’s court ruling against a Greensboro church’s solar-power deal shouldn’t be the last word on the matter. Durham nonprofit NC... Read More
Let the judges draw the districts
Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, September 19, 2017. The lawyers who argued that many of this state’s legislative districts were racially gerrymandered say the latest redistricting didn’t... Read More
