N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, answer questions about taxes, teacher pay, incentives, Medicaid reform and expansion, and more during a news conference following the Jan. 14, 2015, opening of the latest “long” legislative session.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...