Offshore drilling ahead
Decades from now, when school children in North Carolina look back on 2014, they might hear about the massive coal ash spill into the Dan River and subsequent legislation requiring cleanup of Duke... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Save the subsidies
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 25, 2014. More than 350,000 North Carolina residents signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and about 90 percent qualified for federal... Read More
New coal ash landfill illustrates bigger challenge for NC
An idea of just how big North Carolina’s coal-ash problem is can be found north of the Triangle on the Virginia border in Person County. There, one small step toward cleaning up accumulated decades... Read More
NC Senate votes for Medicaid overhaul
A major Medicaid overhaul that largely disregards the wishes of health care providers, the state House and Gov. Pat McCrory won overwhelming support in the state Senate on Thursday in a 28-17 vote... Read More
Cotham: Senate bill shields salaries of for-profit charter schools
by Ann Doss Helms, Charlotte Observer, July 24, 2014. Conflict over disclosure of charter-school salaries flared anew Thursday as House Democrats said a Senate-approved bill shields for-profit... Read More
Commissioner: 'Consent to rate' requests a problem
by Monica Laliberte, WRAL, July 21, 2014. Most people think they already pay too much for homeowner's insurance, but what if the bill suddenly jumped 33 percent or even 70 percent? Many people are... Read More
Taken for a ride
Critics of a just-passed Senate bill complain that it limits the ability of Wake, Guilford, and Forsyth counties to raise sales taxes to fund proposed rail transit systems in the Triangle and Triad... Read More
Rural-urban divide rears its head in sales tax debate
The Senate has given tentative approval to a package of sales tax and economic development changes, but not before laying bare simmering resentments between senators from rural and urban areas. Much... Read More
If Dan Blue....
As soon as Conor the Jessecrat sat down at our regular political dinner he unfolded a newspaper, pointed, and said, There’s a headline to strike terror in every Congressman’s heart. I read... Read More
The troubling agreement behind the budget posturing
Another week at the General Assembly, another round of posturing on the budget , and another set of damaging and unnecessary budget cuts proposed because lawmakers are determined to give... Read More
