N.C. Politics split
I am hurt,” says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. “A plague o’ both your houses!” In popular remembrance, we... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The top 10 most affordable hospitals
With Senator Kay Hagan’s controversial support of the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent release of anti-Obamacare ads in North Carolina, many Tar Heel residents are keeping their eyes on... Read More
Judge halts opportunity scholarship program
When you can't win at the ballot box, enforce your will through the courts. That'a well-known tactic of the left and that's exactly the strategy on display in North Carolina. Earlier today Wake... Read More
Gian cable merger threatens consumers
Like all horror stories, this one began innocently. My daughter was moving to a new job out of state and on moving day she handed me a small box with a cable attached to it and asked, “Can you... Read More
The state's first civil rights demonstration was 65 years ago
We have grown accustomed to seeing thousands of people descend on the state Capitol to protest the policies of the legislature. But it wasn’t always so. And when the Capitol was picketed for the... Read More
Injunction on NC vouchers is a good move
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, February 23, 2014. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood on Friday stopped the N.C. legislature from moving forward with a voucher program that diverts public funds to... Read More
Happy birthday, George
Around mid-morning on February 22, 1732, 23-year old Mary Ball Washington, the 2nd wife of Augustine Washington, delivered a baby boy at their modest home on good land near Pope's Creek, Virginia, a... Read More
Liberators
The 14 men seated on the front row were in or closing in on their 10th decade on earth. Some of them were bent and wheelchair-bound. A couple were spry and alert. Several had trouble hearing, even... Read More
Skvarla's odd definition of partner
The buzz continues in Raleigh over the shrill, defensive news conference held this week by Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources John Skvarla and other DENR officials in the wake of the... Read More
