Trying to make sense of all the redistricting action in North Carolina this month? Good luck with that. We’re now at a point where lawsuits and legislative actions have resulted in a scenario where... Read More
Editorial by Eric Edgerton, printed in Asheville Citizen-Times, February 1, 2018 In a Jan 28. article concerning the potential redrawing of judicial districts across North Carolina, the Citizen... Read More
President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, delivered his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress where he made an appeal for bipartisanship in implementing his agenda. Trump spoke on... Read More
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, February 2, 2018. The new federal income tax law is chock full of changes, alterations and adjustments that are keeping taxpayers, accountants and... Read More
Is $35,000 good money for first year teachers? That’s the question State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson inadvertently set off earlier this week with his comment that a... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, January 28, 2018. Extreme partisan redistricting creates gridlock. Or not. Here in North Carolina, one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation, Republican... Read More
Editorial by The Fayetteville Observer, reprinted in The Wilson Daily Times, January 25, 2018. This looks like one of the worst kinds of legislative give-and-take: Give state funding to a family... Read More
On Jan. 13, thousands of pro-life North Carolinians rallied in Raleigh to express their opposition to abortion. A week later, thousands rallied in Raleigh and other North Carolina cities to protest... Read More
N.C. Public Safety Secretary Erik Hooks met a chilly reception Jan. 25 while briefing legislators on the results of a top-to-bottom prisons review. Hooks, who took office at the Department of Public... Read More
As I’ve said before, the North Carolina Republicans embraced Trumpism before there was Trump. They’ve taken a populist, authoritarian approach to governing, playing to an angry base while limiting... Read More
