North Carolinians are forced to pay twice to prop up the state’s renewable energy lobby: once in the form of higher taxes and again for higher electric bills to support a Renewable Energy Portfolio... Read More
With the start of school, some Shakespearean snippets on the silly season we are all suffering through in politics: Now is the summer of voters’ discontent, Made glorious by these sons of Trump and... Read More
A now-retired lobbyist who observed the legislature for many years offers this take on the current session: The revelation that the General Assembly needs more time to agree to a state budget is not... Read More
This August marked the anniversary of two major milestones in the journey for American voting rights. The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, turned 95. And the landmark federal... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, August 25, 2015. Educators locally and statewide have by now scratched the L-word from their students’ civics vocabulary lists as their first week is well... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, August 25, 2015. For a while last week, there was some hope that North Carolina would have a budget soon, maybe even by the time the kids went back to school. Well... Read More
We could use some people power in North Carolina. Right now, we’ve got nothing. North Carolina residents need what citizens in more than two dozen states have had for years — the ability to... Read More
U.S. high schools haven't shown much improvement in the past four years when it comes to preparing college-ready graduates, according to the Iowa-based nonprofit group that administers the ACT college... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, August 24, 2015. Newly public emails confirm what was already North Carolina’s worst-kept secret: The ouster of UNC system President Tom Ross was draped in politics... Read More
Straight Otta Compton” is an astonishing bit of social commentary that can’t be ignored. The misogynist behavior of the black males engaged in “gangsta rap” is as offensive as the crude... Read More
