Open up your wallets, folks. It’s official. The North Carolina Department of Revenue will start getting a cut of your purchases from Amazon.com starting February 1. It’s not entirely clear
Continue readingEvery day I come across more evidence that we have too frickin’ many lawyers gracing the surface of our beautiful planet and using up valuable oxygen. Take our state’s top
Continue readingGovernor Pat McCrory unveiled his education agenda yesterday, and opponents of the common core curriculum can’t be happy with what they heard: McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech
Continue readingMainstream media types love to tell us they give both sides of the story. They love to tell us how fair they are. But doesn’t passing accurate info on to
Continue readingFor some years, I’ve had one foot in the academic world and one in the business world. (I am an adjunct instructor at a number of area colleges here in
Continue readingThe liars in the remnants of our state’s mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor
Continue readingThe Round Rev and his rabble regularly showed up at The Legislative Building in Raleigh over the last year demanding that education spending and teacher pay be elevated to at
Continue readingWe’ve been doing a lot of campaign finance report reading lately. We’ve found some interesting things about beer and movies on the Thom Tillis Committee’s financial reports. Our latest find
Continue readingBoy, how things change. One of the missions of the NAACP’s founders was to protect the integrity of elections and people’s right to vote. In 2014, the civil
Continue readingIt’s too bad that we have to turn to history books detailing events of generations long ago to appreciate principled American leaders. These days — party platforms are flexible and
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