ICE fishing
When President Trump visited North Carolina he assured our state that the federal checkbook would be opened and that we would get almost anything we wanted from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management... Read More
My Spin by Tom Campbell
At our best when times are worst
It happened once again with Hurricane Florence. Whenever North Carolina is in crisis - such as with storms or other catastrophes – we collectively rise to the occasion. Politics, rivalries and past... Read More
In the path
We should start a petition for the National Weather Service to eliminate names starting with the letter “F” in naming storms. Fran, Floyd, now Florence have wreaked havoc with property, disrupted... Read More
Peeling the healthcare onion
State Treasurer Dale Folwell administers the State Health Plan, the largest in our state. Folwell believes his office should know what various procedures cost his 700,000 present and retired state... Read More
Labor Day then and now
Labor Day was the saddest day of the year when I was young. It signaled the official end of summer and the start of the routine of getting up early, going to school, doing homework and going to bed... Read More
5 + 6 = Ugly defeat in November
Someone should tell our legislative leadership that sometimes it is best to quit while you're behind. And they are definitely behind the eight-ball on two proposed constitutional amendments. The first... Read More
North Carolina's revolution in healthcare
North Carolina is about to undertake the greatest revolution in healthcare since the 1965 advent of Medicaid and Medicare. And yes, that includes Obamacare. North Carolina will soon become the largest... Read More
Impeach Justices?
Dallas Woodhouse, Executive Director of the state Republican Party, lobbed a grenade into a Friday discussion about the Constitutional Amendments on November's ballot, by suggesting that our Supreme... Read More
Be careful what you ask for
When the courts rule against laws our legislature has passed, which they often do, it never seems to enter lawmakers’ minds that those rulings are because of their own wrongheaded notions. Nope... Read More
Defending the first amendment
If you tell a lie long enough and often enough people will eventually believe it. That certainly seems to be the theory behind trying to convince people that the press is filled with fake news and is... Read More
