RALEIGH -- The governor uses funds from the North Carolina Education Lottery to support many programs generously. There is one thing, however, the education lottery appears not to fund often enough: education.
The recent history of the “education” lottery and local sales-tax referendums highlights the problem of promising to use new revenue for schools.
County commissioners have given voters plenty of reasons to say enough is enough.
County commissioners who sit idly by or make feeble attempts at fighting forced annexation are at least as big of a villain as municipalities and the state legislature.
An accurate accounting of sales ratios and timely collections of property taxes are vital to maintaining localities' revenues.
There are few issues that attract near-unanimous sentiment. The need to change NC counties’ funding responsibility for Medicaid is on that very short list.
North Carolina's plan to reform mental-health care saddles local governments with an expensive responsibility.
Democrats won a net gain of three NC county commissions in 2004, including Mecklenburg. Local politics is more competitive than it used to be — and a good place to spot important trends.
Guilford County has the largest board of commissioners in North Carolina — and boasts some of the most exciting and competitive primaries. Partisan control is also up for grabs in November.
Selections include: "Wreck the malls," "Go, blow it out your eardrum," "I saw Commies taxing Santa Claus," "Grandma got run over by a tax hike," and many more!
