It started with a flickering brake light on Nicholas Heien’s Ford Escort.
He was asleep in the back seat while Maynor Javier Vasquez drove the car along Interstate 77 in Surry County during the early morning hours in April 2009, when ...
Pat McCrory has been Governor of North Carolina for 15 months now but he still doesn’t seem to have a handle on the position.
He does have one part of the job down. McCrory is always headed somewhere to cut a ...
“Keeping NC Public Schools Strong” event highlights the central public policy debate of our time
In case you missed it, there’s a rather important public policy battle taking place right now in North Carolina and around the country. It involves a ...
The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted the hard but undeniable reality that the planet has already started to feel tangible and serious impacts of global warming. Unfortunately, here in the United States, popular ...
9,000—number of teachers in the Wake County schools, the largest school district in North Carolina (“Wake County sees ‘alarming’ increase in teacher resignations,” News & Observer, April 17, 2014)
612—number of teachers in Wake County that have resigned since the beginning ...
One of the arguments repeatedly advanced by climate change deniers in so-called “free market think tanks” is that fossil fuels and nuclear power remain the only economically viable, large scale energy sources available. As a consequence, the deniers contend, efforts ...
Despite early setbacks, millions of people have now enrolled in private insurance plans that meet new standards set by the Affordable Care Act. All of these policies must now cover a broad set of benefits including prescription drugs, mental health ...
The irony seemed to completely escape Governor Pat McCrory Wednesday as he took the podium at a Tax Day event to heap praise on last year’s tax package that gave huge breaks to millionaires and large corporations while asking many ...
Late Monday, House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger made good on their threat to seize the reins from Attorney General Roy Cooper in the school voucher litigation, asking the Supreme Court to let them step ...
Marie Baker and Amanda Niles received yet another reminder this tax season that their family isn’t recognized, much less embraced, by the state of North Carolina.
When they began to consider how to file their taxes this year, the Durham couple ...
