Steps we should take if we’re really serious about helping those who’ve served our country American politicians have a strange relationship with those ...
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Setting the Record Straight
Veto defeats, tax cut proposal punctuate another lousy week for the Governor Last Wednesday, in a column entitled “McCrory’s defining moments,” Chris Fitzsimon ...
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Well, that was quite an up and down week in the North Carolina public policy arena. One minute, caring and thinking people were ...
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Proponents misrepresent anti-abortion bill that targets poor women The North Carolina House abandoned its recent flirtation with moderation yesterday by moving a radical ...
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Misplaced priorities on unemployment insurance symbolize the callousness of conservative policies If a person wanted to understand what’s wrong with North Carolina’s government ...
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Conservatives advocate to keep community college unaffordable There are a lot of troubling policies that hold sway in the North Carolina education world ...
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Crude labeling is not helping the debate There’s a bit of dark humor in the wacky world of online political discourse about how ...
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Budget conferees change their rhetoric on the role of government, but not the underlying policies that undermine it Those who attended or watched ...
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95,000-plus—Number of public school teachers in North Carolina $45,938—Average North Carolina teacher compensation 2011-12 (“Facts and Figures 2012-13” – www.ncpublicschools.org) $55,418—U.S. ...
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Governor misleads on tax outcomes in letter to the editor As noted at some length yesterday, Governor McCrory gave a remarkable pair of ...
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It’s time to end the 2013 legislative session You know the folks running the North Carolina General Assembly have run out of steam ...
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Charting the Right’s voracious appetite for rolling back progress and settling old scores At the end of the 2011-12 North Carolina General Assembly, ...
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Big money solidifies its iron grip on the state political system right before our eyes There’s an old adage that money is “the mother’s ...
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How right-wing mythology has helped warp our market economy It’s one of the biggest and most destructive myths about capitalism and the “free ...
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State Senate tries to coerce public schools into performing better There’s an old bit of dark humor that often finds its way ...
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The absurd prosecution of John Edwards North Carolina is the scene of an embarrassing national spectacle these days. The trial of John Edwards ...
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