Bill to move presidential primary to March 8th
orth Carolina’s presidential preference primary would be held March 8, 2016, under House Bill 457, filed by Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, in a move intended to prevent the state from losing... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Speaker Moore wants to see how religious freedom bill affects NC
As opposition to a new Religious Freedom Restoration Act appeared to grow, N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore Tuesday signaled that lawmakers will take a hard look at its potential fallout. Moore called an... Read More
Legislators file competing Medicaid bills
The intensity of the legislative debate over reform of the state’s $14 billion Medicaid program grew more heated with the introduction of several bills that conflict with their missions. The program... Read More
If students can't do college work, counties would pay in proposed legislation
Proposed legislation in the North Carolina Senate would shift the cost of remediation classes at community colleges to the counties where the students who need them graduated from high school. The... Read More
NC Must do more to stem farmland loss
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, March 28, 2015. Farmland is precious. North Carolina needs to do everything it can to stem the loss of land used to produce food. Between 2007 and 2012, North... Read More
Look before you tweet
Economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell — a North Carolina native, by the way — is fond of denying that there are permanent solutions to problems. Instead, he insists, “there are only... Read More
Tracing the right-wing family tree
Names have changed, but the ideas driving the NC conservative movement are distressingly familiar Professor Gene Nichol, the outspoken UNC Chapel Hill Law School professor and anti-poverty warrior who... Read More
The future is now
Going back to the days of Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, Young Democrats were a breeding ground for extraordinary leaders. But the current crop may become the best ever. I spent several hours in... Read More
Pat McCrory's march to the middle begins
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 30,2015. After being elected as a moderate and signing a raft of high-profile conservative legislation into law, we’ve all figured Gov. Pat McCrory would be... Read More
McCrory opposes current 'religious freedom' legislative proposals
Gov. Pat McCrory told a Charlotte radio host Monday that he opposes a bill that would allow magistrates to opt out of performing weddings and didn't see the need for a broader religious freedom bill... Read More
