Get your hands dirty, young man
What’s your goal in life?” I asked a cheerful young man at an alumni event. “I want to retire by 35” was his snappy answer. He smiled, cocked his head as if auditioning to play George Clooney... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Q & A with Berger
By Associated Press, published in Greensboro News-Record, January 31, 2015. When Phil Berger first arrived at the General Assembly in 2001, it was hard to envision the Eden attorney would become one... Read More
The dangers of anti-test frenzy
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, February 1, 2015. The fight against standardized testing has become about more than testing. For some, it’s about control over what happens in our children’s... Read More
Dreams of drilling
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, February 1, 2015. Visions of drilling in the oil-rich waters off North Carolina’s coast may stir the imaginations of some Tar Heel politicians, but a realistic... Read More
What if NC matters?
If the current calendar of 2016 presidential primaries and caucusesdoesn’t change, North Carolina’s late-February contest will be one of the nation’s earliest. After Mitt Romney’s... Read More
In the morgue
EMS medics found Larry Green lying face down by the road with a head wound and no vital signs – he’d been hit by a car. But, then, when a state Medical Examiner, Dr. J.B. Perdue, arrived and... Read More
Young black males need demonstrators, not protestors
During my years of teaching middle school, I taught more than a thousand young black males. I saw many of them come into sixth grade from elementary school smiling but leave eighth grade for high... Read More
Governing by illusion in N.C.
The political contest in North Carolina is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats have been vanquished, undone by their disorganization and lack of conviction and gerrymandered... Read More
The jig is up comrades; head for the hills
Intrepid Civitas sleuths have unearthed our vast and shadowy network Urgent Memorandum To: All current and former assets in the Vast and Shadowy Network of Leftist North Carolina Activists (“VSNLNCA... Read More
Is North Carolina the State of Technology?
We may have significant work to do, but North Carolina is on its way. At least, that’s the intimation of the North Carolina Technology Association's (NCTA) first North Carolina State of... Read More
