Healthcare: A right or a privilege?
Dr. Conrad Flick, noted North Carolina family physician, recently appeared on a panel discussion on healthcare conducted by the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians. During that forum Dr. Flick... Read More
My Spin by Tom Campbell
Whose team are you on?
Sometimes our problems loom so large and seem so complex we can easily be disheartened or depressed about our state’s future. And once sworn-in, our elected officials are constantly sworn at, like... Read More
Be careful in changing how public pensions are invested
Investing 83 billion dollars for more than 875,000 current and retired public employees is an awesome responsibility, one North Carolina delegates to our State Treasurer. There are some who wish to... Read More
10 Tar Heel Megatrends
Instead of predicting what will occur in 2014, let us focus instead on 10 Tar Heel Megatrends that will shape the coming decade in North Carolina. 1. We will be a larger, more diverse... Read More
2013: Looking for a new normal
The year 2013 saw the greatest changes in state government in the past fifty years. With the inauguration of Governor Pat McCrory, two of the three branches of state government were controlled by... Read More
Sixty years of television
During my lifetime there have been many innovations that changed our lives, but perhaps none more significant than television. I remember Tuesday, December 22, 1953, the day Greenville’s WNCT-TV... Read More
Have we become "humbug" people?
Ira David Wood, in his delightful adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, sings a song, “What’s Christmas to you is humbug to me.” That pretty well sums up the prevailing attitude in... Read More
Nobody has the rural solution
As one who was born and raised in Eastern Carolina I hate to see what is happening to this rural region. Many voice concerns about the fate of the region east of I-95, as well as the rural west and... Read More
The Carolina way to give thanks
Two hundred years ago, long before the days of parades with helium filled balloons, marathon football games and “Black Friday,” a brave group of settlers came to North Carolina looking for a... Read More
Obamacare doesn't solve North Carolina's healthcare problems
Every era has its one big issue to face. Ours is healthcare. The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, had two primary goals: to reduce healthcare costs, especially taxpayer support, at the same time... Read More
