Everyone seems to be talking taxes these days. President Trump recently released his proposed tax changes, while here in North Carolina the Senate’s “Billion Dollar Middle-Class Tax Cut” plan... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, The Insider, published in Asheville Citizen-Times, May 31, 2017. Imagine you’re running a match-play golf tournament. Your team will face another for a big cash prize, and you... Read More
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Institute, June 1, 2017. Are some state legislators trying bypass a law meant to keep transportation spending under control? Yesterday a Senate committee approved House Bill... Read More
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, May 26, 2017. My wife and I have one foot in rural regions and the other in big cities. We were both born and raised in small towns – I in an... Read More
Editorial by Wilson Daily Times, May 25, 2017. Some state legislators want to turn away federal funds that provide free meals for Wilson County schoolchildren. The N.C. Senate’s spending plan would... Read More
A CBC Editorial: Wednesday, May 31, 2017; Editorial # 8167 The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company Leaders of North Carolina’s General Assembly can’t silence the truth by... Read More
North Carolina Republicans has gotten right what Republicans elsewhere have gotten very wrong: how to construct sensible tax cuts and honest, conservative budgets. Liberal critics aren’t inclined to... Read More
Since the Senate passed its disastrous budget, bad reviews keep rolling in about the choices Senate leaders made and the process they used to make them. Sen. Phil Berger and his staff are still busy... Read More
The most shameful thing about the disastrous budget passed by the Senate two weeks ago is not the vindictive 3:00 a.m. budget cuts to education programs in Democrats’ districts. It’s not the... Read More
I have been writing a regular column on North Carolina politics and public policy since 1986. Over three decades of writing about and talking to politicians in Raleigh, few issues have come up more... Read More
