If you maintain a diversified portfolio of politically active friends — and you really ought to if you want to perceive the world as it is rather than as you imagine it to be — it’s essential to learn how best to handle passionate disagreements about controversial issues. When the US Supreme Court recently struck...
Who is Doug Heyl? Members of a special legislative committee looking into the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would like to know. Heyl is a top communications official in the state Department of Environmental Quality. But what role did Heyl play in the pipeline permitting process? Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, flashed a PowerPoint presentation during a meeting...
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and State Superintendent Mark Johnson shared thoughts on education reform during a Tuesday, June 26, kickoff event for a new education nonprofit organization, Grow Great NC. “North Carolina and Florida are on the vanguard of learning achievement,” Bush said. Bush explained how his administration pushed education reform in Florida, turning...
Parents, educators, and the general public now have easier access to North Carolina school report cards. State Superintendent Mark Johnson announced at the Dec. 5 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools district leadership meeting that schoolreportcards.nc.gov is now available. “This brand-new website provides the transparency parents and educators need into the characteristics and performance of North Carolina’s public...
The 2016 presidential election campaign already has generated plenty of excitement. Veteran presidential campaign reporter John Gizzi expects more.
The presidential field should narrow significantly in a few weeks.
Electoral trends offer Republicans some good news.
RALEIGH — The so-called millennial generation helped to elect Barack Obama in 2008. But their turnout faded in 2012 because their expectations for instant gratification were not met, and they hold a jaded view that their votes don’t matter, a South Carolina pollster told a Raleigh audience. Tuesday’s NC NEXT conference sponsored by the North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation featured individual speakers and panel discussions involving young business leaders and young elected officials.
RALEIGH — North Carolina features “undoubtedly the premier governor’s race of the country” for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval ratings, said Tom Jensen, director of the Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling. Jensen spoke of the race expected to pit McCrory against Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper at a Wednesday luncheon event.
GARNER — Former Florida Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday outlined his economic plan, a proposal he said would lift the economy out of the post-recession “new normal” and “lift up everybody.” Bush told an audience in Garner, “We need to jump-start our economy, and we can do that by fixing our broken tax code.”
As voters begin to think seriously about the 2016 presidential election, I believe many will be looking for someone to lead them not to some scarcely imagined future but to a cherished past.
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