In less than one week, after all the tryptophan has worn off, lawmakers will be back in Raleigh working on a measure that will require North Carolina voters to have a photo identification to cast a... Read More
Hardly a week goes by without hearing news that North Carolina or some North Carolina city or town is achieving a high ranking on a business or quality of life survey. The steady influx of millennials... Read More
What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month? A few lessons: North Carolina Democrats learned the great advantages of recruiting good candidates to run in every... Read More
If you’re looking for a hopeful sign about modern North Carolina, here’s a small one to buoy your spirits on a holiday week: Fewer and fewer North Carolinians have any idea who Jesse Helms was... Read More
I have shared a list about North Carolina politics with you before. It was fun, at least for me. Here’s another one. In no particular order, these are my top five most interesting and impactful... Read More
by Dan Way, Carolina Journal, November 16, 2018. State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s proposed cost-cutting reforms for the State Health Plan have drawn praise from state employees’ representatives and... Read More
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of economics, November 20, 2018. Two topics of interest to most people are taxes and public spending. So whenever I find research focusing on these two areas... Read More
The great British statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a critic of his government’s treatment of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolutionary War. In particular, he insisted that... Read More
Not that it is really in my interest to say this, but many of our political debates are a waste of time. They may well be about important issues. But they go nowhere. The two “sides” disagree... Read More
Yes, Governor Roy Cooper was a big winner in the 2018 elections. He also was the big reason for Democrats’ big wins – in the legislature, in the courts and against the Republicans’ power... Read More
