The blades of 2016 cut deep wounds. It will take discernment, diplomacy, and diligence to bind them up and begin moving forward.
The following editorial was published in the November 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal: North Carolina’s office of state controller reported a General Fund surplus of nearly $1 billion in its final report on the 2015-16 fiscal year. As we’ve noted earlier, this surplus is a direct consequence of growth-oriented tax reform and simplification, prudent...
An ad in North Carolina's Supreme Court election campaign ignores more than 20 years of Tar Heel political history.
Roy Cooper has essentially been running against Pat McCrory since 2013. So have many liberal activists and left-leaning media outlets. This has happened before.
During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers. At the time lower-skilled black workers were competing with white workers and taking “their jobs.” The all-white unions were quite upfront about their motives...
