by Thomas Mills | Sep 3, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Environment |
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Donald van der Vaart seems to be shifting the mission of his department. Instead of protecting the environment he’s taken on the role of political attack dog and defender of industry. At a time...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 2, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Education |
School’s back in session and so are the asks for money to provide for school supplies. I’ve had children in the public schools for most of the past 20 years. Never have I seen the need for so many basics. In the past, the PTAs and PTOs focused on extras. They added to...
by Holly Jones | Aug 30, 2015 | Ads, Gun Control |
Last week, we experienced another horrifying shooting when a disturbed former news reporter shot two former co-workers in the midst of an on-camera interview and posted a video of the murders on Facebook. It comes in the wake of the Charleston shooting that shocked...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 27, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog |
If budgets are reflections of priorities, we know that teachers and state employees still aren’t very high on the that list. Who is? Rich people, of course. The House and Senate announced yesterday that they’ve come to agreement on how to compensate state employees....
by John Wynne | Aug 26, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Gun Control |
It seems like not a month goes by anymore without some well-publicized mass shooting event in the United States. In Virginia this morning, only two people were killed, but that hardly diminishes the shock of the tragedy. It’s likely to reignite the debate, both...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 25, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Education, NC Politics, NCGOP, Tax Reform |
Back in the late 1990s, before North Carolina had a lottery, I asked a conservative friend in Virginia what he thought about his state’s lottery. “It’s fine with me,” he said. “Mostly poor people play it and they’re the ones who use government money anyhow.” That’s...
