Wall Street values on Jones Street
The moral decline of modern capitalism infects North Carolina state government There are lots of insidious ways in which the unfettered greed and inequality of 21st capitalism are infecting and... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Look before you (statistically) leap
Last Friday, some 44,000 discouraged North Carolina workers suddenly disappeared. Relax. It’s not as mysterious and tragic as it sounds. What happened was that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics... Read More
What's next for proponents of education choice?
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, February 27, 2014. A Wake County judge last week blocked private school tuition grants — what state lawmakers called “Opportunity Scholarships” when the... Read More
Vollermort
The internal politics of the North Carolina Democratic Party are a mystery to me, so I’m lost when people ask, essentially, “WTF is Randy Voller up to?” So I refer you to an insightful piece by... Read More
Giving a friend a break
The other day when one of the bureaucrats over at the Department of Health and Human Services slipped up and made a mistake, the blame landed squarely on Secretary Aldona Wos’ shoulders. And Wos... Read More
NC is boringly average
Fair warning: I may be about to bore you to distraction. Is there any more potent political issue in North Carolina than education? Probably not. As allies of the teachers union, Democrats hope to... Read More
Friday was election day for more than 50 state lawmakers
The power of incumbency, gerrymandered election districts, and a growing national distaste for politics in general might be the causes of having voter ballots for the May 6 primary election showing... Read More
McCrory's Medicaid path
Amonth ago, I wrote that Gov. Pat McCrory and his top health official, Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos, might finally be setting the stage for a political and policy victory. This week... Read More
Judge Hobgood's order striking down vouchers
A week ago, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood issued an injunction preventing the first round of Opportunity Scholarships, or vouchers, from being issued to the parents who applied for them. (See... Read More
Duke gets bum rap
I’ve had my disagreements with Duke Energy, both historically andrecently. But the company got a bum rap in a new story stumbling its way through media circles: that Duke Energy uses abusive tax... Read More
