The perpetual court fights over legislative districts should elevate one issue to the top of the 2016 legislative session’s agenda: independent redistricting reform.
A new report from the Tax Foundation shows how lower, simpler taxes have improved North Carolina's standing among other states and helped families and business owners in the state.
UNC President-elect Margaret Spellings could take a lesson from Washington by proposing the creation of a diverse panel that would consider consolidating redundant programs at the massive UNC system.
States with session limits tend to respect freedom more than those that do not.
No public official has the power to decide how the public's business is reported, nor whether it will comply with requests for public information.
The spending plan fails to advance the conservative agenda in several ways, but it does not signal a return to the high-taxing, free-spending ways of the past.
RALEIGH — The spending plan would exceed anticipated growth in inflation and population over the two-year budget cycle. It also faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where leader Phil Berger has suggested his chamber wants to use an unanticipated budget surplus to build up state reserves or provide additional tax relief.
Every dollar of debt the state incurs to build or renovate something represents more than a doll in principal or interest that can't be used for other core government services or tax relief.
RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory will propose $1 billion in bonding authority to fund a Division of Corporate Welfare based on a model concluding that, when properly administered, business incentives pay for themselves.
The electoral map today may look quite different in a few years, negating hasty changes designed to gain partisan advantage.
The governors is wise not to expand Medicaid at a time the program is in flux.
