North Carolina lawmakers’ latest attempt to insert politics into the judiciary was thwarted Tuesday but is expected to be taken up again the next time they gather in Raleigh. Legislators unveiled... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, reprinted in The Burlington Times-News, June 27, 2017. We wish North Carolina didn’t have to play the incentives game to lure businesses here. But as long as other... Read More
Isis and terrorism, though threats to national security, pale in comparison to the toll of illicit drug use on our human capital. The proposed Opioid Task Force is fast heading for a role as another... Read More
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein heads up the Department of Justice. He and the attorneys that he employs work for us, the people of North Carolina. They are our last line of defense against... Read More
by Matt Caulder, Capitol Connection, June 29, 2017. A Superior Court judge on Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss a case against the state Attorney General’s Office over environmental program funding... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, June 30, 2017. Why doesn’t the N.C. General Assembly just go ahead and make it illegal to be a Democrat? Republican leaders mercilessly hacked the budgets of Gov... Read More
by Dr. Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, June 23, 2017. Anyone visiting my home office immediately knows something obvious about me. The multitude of red baseball hats shows I’m a big... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, The Insider, published in The Wilson Daily Times, June 29, 2017/ As a boy, I barely knew an adult who didn’t smoke. My mother and her best friend smoked cigarettes at the kitchen... Read More
Most of the initial headlines about the final budget agreement announced Monday afternoon by legislative leaders were ones they could have written themselves, touting raises for teachers and state... Read More
North Carolina House and Senate leaders have just fashioned a compromise budget for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years. The deal includes sizable pay raises for school teachers and principals... Read More
