Another relic of racist past
It is indeed time to rethink a relic of the South’s legacy of racism – progressivism. The news is about Confederate flags or statutes of rebel leaders. As a Yankee I’ll stay out of that... Read More
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The Stars and Stripes
He’d been doing business for thirty years and if what he’d been doing wasn’t illegal like selling moonshine it also wasn’t quite the same as being President of the local bank or owner of the... Read More
With Hagan out, which Democrat will challenge Burr?
Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s decision this week not to run for Sen. Richard Burr’s seat in 2016 leaves a wide open field for Democrats with no clear frontrunner. Here’s a quick look at who might... Read More
The ACA affirmed
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 26, 2015. Battered but intact, the Affordable Care Act survived its latest siege on Thursday. By a solid 6-3 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the... Read More
Policy Watch reporter banned from McCrory press event
Education reporter Lindsay Wagner was kicked out of a North Carolina Business Committee for Education (NCBCE) annual meeting today, a press event listed on McCrory’s public schedule that was sent... Read More
Supreme Court rescues Obamacare...again
The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to uphold healthcare tax credits in the 34 state that opted not to establish state-run exchanges. In a similar fashion to the 2012 decision of National... Read More
Supreme Court ruling brings Medicaid, expansion into focus
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold a key provision of the federal Affordable Care Act means Gov. Pat McCrory has a big health care decision of his own to make: whether to expand North... Read More
Lawmakers have work to do on stopgap spending plan
North Carolina lawmakers are less than a week away from a new fiscal year and they don’t yet agree fully on how state government should operate during expected prolonged budget and tax negotiations... Read More
Frankenstein's bill
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 25, 2015. She blinded us with science. Or at least she’s tried to. In a last-ditch effort to save an unpopular bill, state Sen. Trudy Wade has grafted it to... Read More
Talking about Charleston
We love to “have a national conversation” at times like this. We talk about race and hate. We talk about the church and faith. We talk about the Confederate flag. We talk about politicians... Read More
