The Triangle Business Journal recently published an article on the increasing number of surgeries in the local area, due in large part to the aging Baby Boom generation. To meet increased demand... Read More
Local leaders are disappointed by last week’s decision to deny an injunction that would have halted controversial GOP-enacted voting measures before the November election, but they are vowing to use... Read More
After passing laws imposing new conditions on abortions and elections, taking away teacher tenure and providing vouchers for private school tuition, Republican state legislators have seen those... Read More
This year marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most celebrated campaign stunts in North Carolina political history, the Great Bull Calf Walk. It was a campaign stunt from an earlier era, when... Read More
Governor McCrory’s blast at The N&O got him another day of the “blaring, top-of-the-fold” headlines he blasted. But this is just the beginning of the Coal Ash Saga. We soon will have a U.S... Read More
Thirteen years ago the terrorists blew up the World Trade Center and, since the terrorists lived in Afghanistan, we attacked Afghanistan. The terrorists then moved to Pakistan but we kept right on... Read More
The day before the state Senate reconvened this week and considered several pieces of controversial legislation, from complex regulatory reform to local taxes to teacher assistant funding, the... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, August 15, 2014. Frank Porter Graham was prophetic, even if his ideas proved unpopular in his day. Back in the 1930s, the University of North Carolina president and... Read More
House members on Friday refused to bring up for a vote a bill on business incentives that Gov. Pat McCrory and other top Republicans want. With the incentives measure in limbo, the legislative session... Read More
hree years have passed since Republican lawmakers redrew North Carolina’s political landscape with redistricting maps that Democrats and voting rights advocates have challenged as discriminatory to... Read More
