Just when the wrap up stories and angry columns by misguided critics about the 2007 session of the General Assembly have tapered off, lawmakers are coming back to town to consider overriding Governor Mike Easley’s veto of legislation that would have given as much as $40 million to Goodyear to keep its plant in Fayetteville. [Continue Reading...]

The headlines about Tuesday’s release of the latest poverty and health care data from the U.S. Census Bureau told conflicting stories. Some papers and websites proclaimed that “N.C. income has increased.” One national publication ran a headline saying that President Bush was buoyed by the Census report. It is true that median household income in [Continue Reading...]