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There’s no value judgment in labeling an action constitutional
Some political observers think an action they don't like is automatically unconstitutional.
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Gonna need a bigger sleigh
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Health reform needs state leaders
States, localities, providers, and patients need the freedom to try different approaches to health care reform. North Carolina’s new leaders are about to get it.
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Let’s start 2017 by promoting ideas that benefit all
Lawsuits. Veto threats. Power grabs. Protests. My rights, his rights. No one’s right. What a way to end 2016. Recovering from one of most contentious elections and a special session of the General Assembly tarnished by constitutional challenges, most North Carolinians are left asking, can’t we all just get along? Ideas are powerful things. Not...
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A lump of coal for you!
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Plausible explanations
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History can teach both parties
When you craft public policy through an orderly process, you increase both the quality of legislation and the credibility of legislators.
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McCrory deserves credit for disaster-relief bill
Hyperbole is alive and well in Raleigh. The superlatives, at one point this week, were flying. Tuesday, lawmakers unanimously approved a $200.9 million disaster relief package for North Carolinians whose lives were uprooted this fall by Hurricane Matthew and western wildfires. The package, as we reported, includes $20 million to the Housing Trust Fund for...
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Fake news
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Ink versus pixels
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Defining ‘rain’ in the N.C. rainy day fund
Legislators consider new rules to guide use of N.C. state government's emergency savings reserve.
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