I want to help improve public school education, but it is plagued by so many problems, I don’t know where to start. No one does. Problems? What problems are you talking about? I’m referring to low... Read More
Column from The Rocky Mount Telegram, December 24, 2014. Editor’s note: The Rocky Mount Telegram is pleased to reprint what has become a holiday favorite in the Rocky Mount area: the ill-fated... Read More
Column first run in 1897 in the New York Sun, published in the Greenville Daily Reflector, December 24, 2014. In 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church, an editor at The (New York) Sun, penned an editorial... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 24, 2014. ’Twas the night before Christmas And all through the sound Not a creature was stirring, Not even a flound(r). – Anonymous If there is an old... Read More
Editor’s note: During the holidays, NC Policy Watch is taking a look back at 2014 by featuring some of our top news stories and commentaries from the past 12 months. We hope you will enjoy them and... Read More
When we sat down to our annual Christmas lunch our group of old white conservative men were looking care-worn and weary;---they’d voted against gay marriage and won and a year and a half later gays... Read More
Where was this guy in October when we needed him? In the weeks before the election, President Obama seemed passive and powerless as ISIS ran wild in the Middle East and Ebola panicked America... Read More
North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham area could be in the running for the potential relocation of Mercedes-Benz USA's headquarters from New Jersey, according to media reports. The Detroit News reported... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 21, 2014. Sen. Richard Burr plans to run for re-election in 2016 and knows the price has gone up. “Anybody in my position who says they don’t have to... Read More
The Carolinas continue to rank among the nation's fastest-growing states, newly released U.S. Census population estimates show. North Carolina has overtaken Michigan to become the nation's ninth... Read More
