A mighty horde
The other day down at the News and Observer ole Rob Christensen wrote about how Republicans in Raleigh are cocksure there’s not a chance they’ll lose their majorities in the State House and... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Trapped by poverty and underfunded schools
Supporters of privatizing public education with a voucher program say that parents need vouchers to give them more educational choices because many low income students are “trapped in failing public... Read More
Duke: customers won't pay for the ash cleanup
Duke Energy customers won’t pay the bill for cleaning up the coal ash-contaminated Dan River, CEO Lynn Good said Tuesday. As Duke released its 2013 earnings, Good was asked about costs to remedy the... Read More
Environmental accountability at stake
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, February 17, 2014. Federal prosecutors are looking into the massive toxic coal ash spill in the Dan River, fishing for possible criminal activity by the utility and... Read More
On the less-affordable care act
Could President Obama’s signature program, the Affordable Care Act, be responsible for declining rates of growth in U.S. health care spending? That’s what some Obamacare advocates are claiming. To... Read More
When the buildings start crumbling
Some years ago, then-House Speaker Jim Black pushed an idea akin to so-called mortgage bullet payments to pay for new state buildings. The state would have paid very little on the construction for... Read More
The American economic system
Guest commentary from Mike Armstrong, February 17, 2014. One common trap that a lot of us fall into is rising to defend the current American economic system ... As if it were a free market economy. it... Read More
Political climate change?
It’s been several months since the North Carolina General Assembly adjourned the 2013 long session last July and there’s no mistaking the altered vibe that now pervades the state capital. When... Read More
Why does North Carolina unemployment remain so high?
by Mike Walden, NCSU professor of Economics, published in WRAL Techwire, February 17, 2014. here’s good news and bad news about the North Carolina job market. The good news is that more jobs have... Read More
McCrory's big week
Last week summed up the obstacles and opportunities that Governor McCrory faces as he governs in a purple state where politics is played for keeps. And he saw how hard it is, even for a Governor, to... Read More
