RALEIGH — The election, ostensibly nonpartisan, has attracted national interest. There's little doubt that a Democratic sweep of the five seats would ripple far beyond Wake County.
RALEIGH — Critics of a vehicle mileage-based tax note that boosting the cost of driving might push more commuters into public transit — a goal of the administration and advocates of a “smart growth” urban planning agenda.
RALEIGH — The debate over Senate Bill 438 highlights a longstanding criticism of the vehicle-franchising system, which provides some protections to dealers and manufacturers that translate into higher prices in the showroom.
RALEIGH — If government officials were forced to apply the same uniform accounting methods that private pension plan administrators must use to calculate liabilities, experts say the funding shortfall would be five times greater than the amount being reported by state and local governments.
RALEIGH — Between the 60-plus seats Republicans picked up in the House and the six they gained in the Senate, upcoming changes in committee and subcommittee leadership should boost the state’s influence.
RALEIGH — The unemployment rate in North Carolina and around the country may be flirting with double digits, but that isn’t preventing the U.S. Department of Labor from tight enforcement of employment laws.
RALEIGH — Nationally, the number of full-time administrators per 100 students increased by 39.3 percent, while the number of full-time teaching, research, and service employees grew by just 17.6 percent. At roughly 14.5 percent, student enrollment grew even less over that period.
RALEIGH — A March 2009 special report from the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, nonpartisan tax research organization, reported, “the nation’s first few Amazon taxes have not produced any revenue at all, and there is some evidence of lost revenue."
RALEIGH — The idea for NCTransparency.com grew from the need for North Carolinians to have a single point of access to information on governmental entities.
RALEIGH - For more than two decades, cross-national assessments of student academic performance against international standards have shown that U.S. students consistently score below the international average in mathematics, science, and reading compared to their counterparts in 30 industrialized nations.
