North Carolina desperately needs a thorough, public and serious debate about economic development policy and the use of incentives to attract new jobs to the state. No one really likes incentives but... Read More
I wonder if the N.C. Legislature understands the “smack in the face” effect its incentives to lure new businesses to the state has on a business like mine that has been operating here for over... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory is frustrated with the General Assembly, and the feeling was more than mutual this week. Although Republicans control both the Executive Mansion and the legislature, the two branches... Read More
It may sound a like a story you have heard before, sharp pointed exchanges in public between top lawmakers and executive branch officials, Senate leaders refusing to confirm administrative... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, March 19, 2015. The state legislature’s GOP majority is abandoning its party’s love of small government and local control as it bulldozes uninvited into local... Read More
Earlier this month, the NC House introduced the “NC Competes Act,” a bill that would expand the state’s Job Development Investment Grant program (JDIG), and extend targeted tax breaks for... Read More
A bill filed Thursday by three senators would repeal the state’s religious exemption for vaccines. Senate Bill 346, sponsored by Sens. Jeff Tarte R-Mecklenburg, Tamara Barringer, R-Wake, and Terry... Read More
At a conference Thursday for school administrators in Raleigh, the Gov. Pat McCrory commiserated with those looking for greater investment in public schools, reiterating his plan to expand education... Read More
The federal courts in eastern North Carolina have been operating under a state of judicial emergency for years now, though you wouldn’t know it given the lack of a sense of urgency exhibited by the... Read More
I’m so glad that Republicans are finally embracing redistribution of wealth. Sen. Harry Brown (R-Onslow) has proposed a new formula for doling out sales tax money that would take from the rich... Read More
