Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, March 6, 2016. Several years ago, the StarNews editorial board stopped endorsing candidates for public office. Some folks cheered; others have told us they miss the... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, March 7, 2016. When the Affordable Care Act took effect, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one important provision: The federal government, the justices ruled... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 6, 2016. Friendly and distant. Reassuring and suspicious. Kind-hearted and heavy-handed. If you listened to speakers at public forums last week on school... Read More
Robert Kaplan compares the two presidents in a column for The National Interest. President Barack Obama is known to be a great admirer of President George H. W. Bush, who Obama recently said is... Read More
When a protest outside the University of North Carolina Board of Governors meeting wrapped up on Dec. 11, it wasn't a faculty member or student urging people to return in January to continue pushing... Read More
Transparency will be a top focus for the UNC system’s administration in the coming year, President Margaret Spellings said Friday during her first official presentation before the Board of Governors... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory just got both good news and bad news about his prospects of defeating his likely Democratic challenger, Attorney General Roy Cooper, in the fall election. Let’s start with the bad... Read More
Top Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) officials presented preliminary plans for stabilizing the state’s Medicaid system to state leaders Tuesday, in line with legislation passed last... Read More
New Public Policy Polling surveys in Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, and North Carolina find that voter anger over their Republican Senators’ unwillingness to consider a replacement for Antonin Scalia on... Read More
Super Tuesday and Superdelegates are coming through big for Hillary Clinton. For that she owes a big thanks to 1980s Southern Democrats, including Jim Hunt and Terry Sanford. Both “supers” were... Read More
