RALEIGH — The state budget battle that will take place over the next few months likely will have a major impact on the day-to-day operations of the system’s 16 public universities. In early March, Gov. Pat McCrory began the process with the release of his 2015-17 budget proposal, which the General Assembly will debate and amend this summer.
John Hood on job-creating policies; Robert George on role of civic virtue in preserving limited government; Benjamin Ginsburg on election law; Chris Conover on risk associated with no health insurance; Roy Cordato on negative impacts of capital gains tax
John Hood on policy debate between Center & Right; lawmakers and Aldona Wos discuss Medicaid problems; Joe Coletti on government efficiency; Harry Kaplan on competition in the auto insurance market; Sarah Curry on industries comprising N.C.'s GDP
Rick Henderson on Gov. McCrory's 2014 policy priorities; Gov. McCrory on his education ideas with reaction from Terry Stoops; Judge John Jolly on N.C.'s business court; James Woolsey on protecting electric grid; Katherine Restrepo on reforming Medicaid
Terry Stoops on lawsuit against opportunity scholarships; Ted Abernathy on economic competitiveness; lawmakers on exemptions for ticketed entertainment sales tax; Hadley Heath on ObamaCare problems; Rick Henderson on trials for legislative protesters
Jeanette Doran on a website devoted to analyzing lawsuits against N.C.'s election reforms; lawmakers hear about N.C.'s unemployment benefit debt owed to the feds; Tony Almeida on N.C. efforts at job creation; Richard Vedder on reforming higher education; Katherine Restrepo on problems ahead with ObamaCare
Jon Ham on media coverage of DNC & RNC conventions; Charlie Cook & David Gergen on N.C. as battleground state; Emery Milliken on end to adult-care lawsuit; Billie Redmond on job creation strategy; Terry Stoops on next front in school choice fight
Jon Ham on media coverage of presidential race; Bryan Holloway, Susan Fisher & Terry Stoops on dropout problem; Rick Perry on job creation; Jessica Anderson on transforming policy into reality; Rick Henderson on political spin about unemployment data.
