Monthly Archives: March 2009
Critics say Perdue won’t cut own staff
Program marks progress in ending homelessness
Letter: Leadership needed on health care issue
Report: N.C. dropout rate 12th worst
Education bills tap businesses for support
Different Cities, Different Care
From community to community in North Carolina there is great variation in the frequency of surgical procedures– variation that can't be explained by disease rates or factors such as age, sex, or race. Physician preference is driving care even when multiple,valid treatment options exist for a given diagnosis. By studying and limiting this [Continue Reading...]
The Follies
What happened to nonprofit accountability?
Not too many years ago, nonprofits that received state money were under fire by legislators, mostly Republicans, who alleged all sorts of mismanagement and waste and called for strict reporting about how the money was spent. They asked the state auditor to oversee the tougher accountability measures.
The insider club continues
New low for the lottery
Dr. John Lumpkin on the growing ranks of the uninsured
Elon University polling on gay marriage, video poker, and public financing
UNC law professor Deborah Weissman on problems in the 287(g) immigration program
A “Back to the 50′s budget”
Local right-wing group outdoes itself with annual budget proposal
One of the most common hypocrisies of modern public policy debates is the repeated and ever-confident assertion of various far right politicians and commentators that it’s easy to slash government budgets by simply cutting “wasteful spending.” Whether it’s John McCain, Bobby Jindal, or Rush Limbaugh, the pattern is almost always the same: trot out a few examples of potentially controversial spending items (it usually helps if the items have a funny or unusual name or a scientific purpose that might actually take some effort to understand) or some other smaller item of public extravagance and then extrapolate like crazy.
