by Thomas Mills | Sep 9, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Education, NCGOP |
North Carolina Republicans have a problem with their statistics bumping into reality. We’ve been hearing about the Carolina Comeback and our dramatic drop in the unemployment rate. Unfortunately, nobody’s feeling it. In reality, our job growth is barely keeping up...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 29, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, Education, Environment, NCGA |
For years, the Democrats who controlled the legislature polled the electorate at least once a year. They weren’t asking horse race questions. They were trying to gauge the mood of the people who decided elections to help shape their legislative agenda and their...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 26, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Education |
Republicans’ problem with education in North Carolina runs deep and wide. It’s not just teachers’ salaries that have people upset. It’s their whole approach to public schools. They want to see a decentralized school system that subsidizes private education,...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 13, 2014 | Budget, Editor's Blog, Education |
Republicans in North Carolina are forever falling all over themselves to claim they didn’t make cuts to public education. Their argument is all semantics. Yes, in raw dollars there may have been more money in the budget, but the funding didn’t keep up with the...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 5, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, Education, NC Politics |
This year, the legislative session was all about softening the GOP tone in preparation for the 2014 Midterms. The centerpiece of legislation was a teacher pay raise that was supposed to mollify voters’ anger over the 2013 assault on public education. By that measure,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 19, 2014 | Education, Environment, NC Politics
There are state governments that enact awful right-wing policies but execute them decently. Ours does not make the list. Instead, the Republican Counter-revolutionaries seem to pick the most foolish possible ways to pursue dubious courses of action. North Carolina...
