Don’t despair North Carolina, despite continuing cries the state is without a budget — even after months of consternation, frustration, accusations, political wrangling, and dead–end negotiations. We do, indeed, have a budget. Granted, it’s not one …
Earlier this week, Judge David Lee convened a status conference with the plaintiffs and defendants from the ongoing Leandro v. State of North Carolina lawsuit. The case focuses on the state’s constitutional duty to provide “an opportunity for a sound basic education” to…
On average, incomes have gone up faster than housing prices. But builders are producing disproportionately more capacity aimed at upper-income people than they are capacity for those of low and moderate incomes.
A recent article suggests Gov. Roy Cooper is not alone in mislabeling helpful tax relief measures.
Neither Democrats no Republicans are content simply to clasp national coattails. And both are courting voters who live in urban townhouses, rural ranch houses, and everything in between.
When President Trump speaks to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention Sunday, I’ll be listening for next steps in his plan to free North Carolina farmers from the devastating overreach of Obama administration rules that expanded the definition of private land that…
Most presidents have an intelligible foreign policy. For some it’s bold enough to earn a grandiose name — think George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” — or at least be labeled “doctrine.” James Monroe’s was to keep other powers out…
The official poverty measure leaves out free health care, free housing, free food, and other public assistance other than cash. It relies on data from income-tax returns and thus leaves out significant off-the-books income.
The N.C. Court of Appeals concludes that access to a sound basic education does not include protection from abuse at school.
Most North Carolinians believe voter ID is a reasonable precaution against a low-probability but catastrophic event. It would be prudent for politicians and judges to accept that and move on.
