House Minority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, Rep. John Blust, R-Guilford, and Dana Cope of the State Employees Association of North Carolina discuss oversight of the State Employee Health Plan. Republican legislators have urged shifting oversight of the plan from the legislative to the executive branch. These comments were part of a May 5, 2009, news conference.
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...