Politics in the Land of Lincoln proves that parties can disappoint and good guys can finish last.
Some illegal immigrants may now pay resident tuition to attend public universities in California, thanks to legislation signed last year by Gov. Gray Davis and a vote this week by the University of California Board of Regents. In North Carolina, a bill before the Senate would create a commission to study doing the same thing here.
Fresh from expanding their purview far beyond its proper bounds in areas like smoking and gun control, North Carolina public health officials now have a new target for vilification: urban sprawl.
Medical inflation is back with a vengeance, but to the dismay of “single-payer” advocates it may lead not to abolishing private insurance but instead to new ways of empowering families to make their own health care decisions.
The attorney general’s office is offering contradictory arguments in two different redistricting cases — thus giving plaintiffs seeking to overturn state legislative districts a wide opening to employ an ingenious debating tactic.
The Easley administration can’t seem to get its act together. On the governor’s signature issue of a proposed state lottery, projections of North Carolina revenue “loss” to its neighbors vary wildly — and are poorly understood.
Voter rejection of sports welfare leads to more private money for sports projects.
Despite the Lumina Foundation's jeremiad over the "inaccessibility" of higher education hindering the goal of making college available to all citizens, other research indicates that such a goal itself is not socially optimal.
Both parties are spinning furiously as the redistricting process dies down. Democrats think they can take back the U.S. House by taking out North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes. Republicans beg to differ.
New data show that North Carolina ranked 8th in the nation in state spending growth during the 1990s, thus setting the stage for big budget deficits in recent years. Gov. Easley probably hasn’t thanked his predecessor for this.
Free-market analysts who warn about the unintended consequences of government regulation now have another case to cite: mental-health parity laws, which have resulted in less access to services and lower spending on mental health care.
