Adults in the House
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, June 11, 2014. Republican lawmakers in the state House and Senate have substantially different ideas about how education and Medicaid should be funded. Either... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Are Moral Mondays fizzling out?
by Jim Tynen, Civitas Review Online, June 11, 2014. This week, Moral Monday took an interesting turn; instead of ending in arrests, the evening ended with a civil discussion and an eerie march through... Read More
Blowing up the status quo in education
Chronic failures in the education system have alternately been blamed on students, parents, administrators, teachers, assessment (testing) and the curriculum. One of my favorite superintendents used... Read More
Political split outgrows the voting booth
Political polarization in America has broken out of the voting booth. A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds Americans are divided by ideology and partisanship not only when they cast ballots... Read More
SBI investigating sweepstakes donations to legislators
The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal inquiry into campaign contributions from the video sweepstakes industry to some of the state’s top elected officials. The investigation... Read More
Separate Medicaid agency may be no bargain
The state Senate’s proposed budget would carve Medicaid out of the Department of Health and Human Services in hopes of making it a more accountable, standalone agency with budget stability. But in... Read More
Eric Cantor’s Loss and 100 Million Reasons Republicans Can’t Fight the Last War in 2014
Yesterday, June 10, 2014, for the first time in American history, the sitting U.S. House Majority Leader lost a campaign for reelection. Why? Many conservative Republicans are claiming today that U.S... Read More
The less regressive but equally cynical and inadequate House budget
The best thing you can say about the House budget released this week is that it’s not the same as the dreadful Senate budget released two weeks ago. The House plan does not kick thousands of aged... Read More
Senator Berger is wrong on teacher assistants
Editorial by News and Observer, June 11, 2014. Phil Berger knows better. A small-town lawyer by trade, the Republican president pro tem of the state Senate deals every day in his profession with... Read More
House budget proposes increased lottery sales to pay 5% teacher raises
The state House introduced a $21.1 billion budget Tuesday morning that is substantially different from the Senate plan and exposes the wide gulf between House and Senate Republicans on how to pay for... Read More
