GOP lawmakers brush off McCrory's demand
Don’t look now, but Republican legislative leaders don’t seem any more inclined to listen to Governor Pat McCrory this year than they did the first two years of his administration. McCrory told a... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Why the NC film industry will continue
by Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, January 9, 2015. North Carolina's film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production... Read More
The (Tea)party is over
The Tea Party is over. Mitch McConnell is telling his new members not to worry about primaries from the right. He says the establishment beat Tea Party opponents in 2014 and they’ll beat them again... Read More
Will leadership fiddle while the economy burns?
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 9, 2015. Will leadership fiddle while the economy burns? That may happen when the new session of the General Assembly opens next month. Gov. Pat McCrory is... Read More
Context: the forgotten factor in the class size debate
Should states spend billions to reduce class size? That’s the question Amelia Thomson DeVeaux of the popular data and statistics web site Five Thirty-Eight asks in an article of the same name... Read More
Elected bodies shouldn't need lobbyists
Editorial by News and Observer, January 8, 2015. Knowledgeable, respected and popular among Republican state lawmakers, Richard Stevens is a fine choice to lobby for the interests of Wake County in... Read More
NC switching all high school students to 10-point grading system this fall
The State Board of Education voted Thursday to switch all high school students to the new 10-point grading scale this fall, reversing its previous decision to phase in the change during the next three... Read More
Coastal warning
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 7, 2015. Politicians imposed a 30-year time limit on sea-level forecasts for North Carolina’s coast, but the scientists made their point anyway. Sea... Read More
Courts agree GOP overstepped abortion law
Critics of Republican leadership in the General Assembly are often quick to use words such as "extreme" to describe policies pushed by the majority. Republicans use the same rhetoric about Democrats... Read More
They walk the line
John Boehner, Jeb Bush and Pat McCrory took their first steps this week along a Republican Party fault line that offers peril for each of them – and peril for Democrats if they succeed. Boehner... Read More
