Far-reaching voting changes in North Carolina approved by Republicans three years ago and upheld by a federal judge now head to an appeals court that previously sided with those challenging the law on... Read More
Although the debate about education policy is robust, complicated, and sometimes vitriolic, there is actually broad agreement about the bottom line: if our students were better prepared for college... Read More
A puzzling move on a bad idea for the state One of the more puzzling developments of this week was the decision by Senate leaders to delay consideration until next Saturday of a proposal to put a... Read More
Guns do not kill people. People kill people. If you can say that with a straight face and truly believe it in your heart after the recent horror in Orlando, then you are probably not going to like... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 18, 2016. Bullying has been around forever, but the internet and social media can raise it to new levels of torment. Did the authors of the First Amendment... Read More
You would vote for the devil if he were a Democrat, wouldn’t you?” Thus begins an old story that makes fun of an old-time party-loyal, “yellow-dog” Democrat. His friend was teasing him about... Read More
We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the... Read More
One of the top priorities of the folks on the Right this legislative session is to unleash the power of the free market to solve all of our health care problems. That’s the way they tell it anyway... Read More
Editorial by The Daily Reflector, June 16, 2016. The N.C. General Assembly recently pulled three of the state’s historically black universities from its bill to lower tuition to $500 per semester at... Read More
An effort to cap the state income tax rate was removed quietly from the Senate’s calendar on Wednesday, one day after that body’s Finance Committee gave the proposed change to the N.C... Read More
