Federal regulators on Tuesday approved a $1.2 billion deal to allow Duke Energy Progress to buy back power plant ownership from 32 debt-saddled Eastern North Carolina towns that bought costly shares... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 8, 2014. Body cameras for police have become all the rage following controversial police shootings in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere around the country. That... Read More
Correct ideas are not always popular ones. I freely admit that most North Carolinians favor increasing the legal minimum wage, through either congressional or legislative action. Supporters believe... Read More
Last week, state officials released the first batch of transportation projects to be funded through 2025 under the new "strategic mobility formula" proposed by Gov. Pat McCrory and approved by the... Read More
Parties in the Pitt County school desegregation case are back before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond this morning to argue their second appeal in three years, this time over a... Read More
Obama and the Republican Leaders in Congress are eyeball to eyeball over immigration with the President saying he’s done a fine noble deed to bring five million people out of the shadows and with... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, December 8, 2014. For years, the story of “two North Carolinas” has been a popular narrative among politicians hoping to win crossover appeal from voters... Read More
It is pretty clear that North Carolina hospitals are adamant about using the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) regulations to shield themselves from the free market. After all, what law better... Read More
Reporter Lynn Bonner and the News and Observer showed us once again why people have stopped buying newspapers: Reporters keep trying to make the news, not report it. That’s exactly what Bonner did... Read More
North Carolina's 2014 election season hosted a neck-and-neck Senate contest that featured record-shattering campaign spending. It was also just a warm-up for what's to come. In 2016, a year when only... Read More
