Even if you believe that all is well with voting machines in North Carolina and how the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) handles election data, our election systems are only as secure as the people running them allow them to be. That is why election observers and other volunteers are vital to ensuring...
When I first began covering state politics and public policy in the late 1980s, North Carolina families dissatisfied with the quality of education provided by their local school district had limited options. Some could afford private schools, or to move to other communities where they hoped the assigned public schools were better. A few were...
No one should be happy about the baby formula shortage. There’s nothing good about watching families scramble to meet life-and-death needs of society’s most vulnerable members. That’s why this observer remains reluctant to declare any piece of the story a proverbial silver lining. Nonetheless, there is a chance that a good result could emerge from...
North Carolina remains stuck in the muddled middle on gun rights.
Are the ’70s back? Hopefully not the fashion, but I’ll take the music. Tube socks with short shorts are a bad look for most people. Yet the world would be a better place if we listened to a little more “Saturday Night Fever” and Yacht Rock. Two things I had hoped we’d never relive from...
Entrepreneur and civic leader Algenon Cash is the host of “Locked In,” a program on Greensboro radio station WTOB. I appeared on a recent episode along with former Gov. Pat McCrory, who’d just lost the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. McCrory had much to say about that race, as you might expect. But what I...
The anti-offshore drilling ban will likely damage the environment by choking off funding for a critical federal conservation program.
