Given the abundant rainfall in the Triangle over the last several months, it is easy to forget that within the last 15 years North Carolina has experienced the state’s two most severe droughts on... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, June 15, 2014. This editorial board has said before that the job of state schools superintendent should be appointed, not elected. The elected post has only nominal... Read More
Education in North Carolina is under siege. Many teachers are leaving the state to teach in neighboring states after being faced with years of stagnant pay, the elimination of pay increases for... Read More
The state budget process entered its final leg Friday when the House approved a $21 billion spending plan. That bill will return to the Senate, where members will almost certainly reject it next week... Read More
Democrats in Washington want to strip the NAACP, the Sierra Club, the AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood, and other groups of their rights to speak, assemble, and petition government for redress of... Read More
Where can budget writers find savings to help fund priorities such as teacher raises? That’s a question on everyone’s mind these days. In our opinion, a review of UNC Centers and Institutes might... Read More
In 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech about the history of the struggle for human freedom and emancipation in which he noted the following: “This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a... Read More
When Democrat Barack Obama took office in January 2009, U.S. Attorney George Holding of Raleigh was investigating two of the biggest Democrats in North Carolina – former U.S. Sen. John Edwards and... Read More
In what is likely a legislative first, House Speaker Thom Tillis started caving in to Senate budget negotiators even before the House had given its own spending plan final approval. After the House... Read More
