Scott Ralls will be leaving his job as North Carolina’s community college president in a few months, leaving an opening at an institution that’s a central piece of the state’s educational and... Read More
One of the most interesting responses by the General Assembly to a public still anxious about making ends meet in this uneven economic recovery is the push to make it easier to take a hidden and... Read More
by Thomas Mills, Politics North Carolina, April 30, 2015. Thom Tillis really just needs to go away. Six months after being elected to the Senate, his approval ratings are in the tank. As long as he... Read More
by Sarah Curry, John Locke Foundation, April 30, 2015. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the 2014 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections, which shows that tax revenue increased... Read More
Late last night the NC House approved an amendment to an otherwise little-discussed regulatory reform bill. The amendment would cap the state's renewable energy portfolio standard and eliminate the... Read More
The House passed roughly 70 bills during 10 hours of floor debate Wednesday and early Thursday as crossover loomed, finally adjourning at 2:26 a.m. with no plans to take more votes until Tuesday... Read More
On Feb. 27, the UNC Board of Governors voted to close the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at its Chapel Hill campus. Many on the left and faculty within the UNC system argued the board’s... Read More
As the April 30 ‘crossover deadline’ nears — at which point a bill must be passed by one legislative house in order to have a shot at becoming law — members of the General Assembly scrambled... Read More
I didn’t see much sense in making a lady in Indiana (or anywhere else) cater a gay wedding if she didn’t want to, so I said the Religious Freedom Act sounded like a fine idea – which turned out... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, April 28, 2015. Here in North Carolina, we take clean water for granted - until we can’t. Some residents near Duke Energy coal ash dumps, including the one at... Read More
