The recent discovery of important voter mailings stacked up in a post office underlines long-standing failures by elections staff that the Forsyth County Board of Elections (BOE) ... Keep Reading
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NC Teachers Speak Up On Common Core
As schools across North Carolina begin teaching classes based on the Common Core standards, it is timely and appropriate to consider the views of the people who are closest to the ... Keep Reading
Survey Shows NC Teachers Favor Slowing Down Common Core Implementation
A new survey suggests that North Carolina teachers are leery of the implementation of Common Core standards, with nearly two-thirds favoring slowing down or halting the ... Keep Reading
The Facts Behind the Watauga County Elections Changes
The Watauga County Board of Elections met on August 12 and "welcomed" a new board member who was ultimately elected chairman, Luke Eggers , a Republican. He had been sworn in ... Keep Reading
The Way We Were – The Troubled Culture of North Carolina Elections
It is expected to take a little more than two years to implement the new voter photo ID law, but it will take a lot longer to change the dysfunctional culture that is entrenched in ... Keep Reading
The Strange Case of the Missing Voters
With the passage of HB 589 VIVA/Election Reform, the North Carolina legislature has produced the first comprehensive updating of our election laws in several decades. Until now our ... Keep Reading
North Carolina’s 2013 Legislative Session Recap: Landmark Gains For Conservatism
As the dust settles on the landmark 2013 North Carolina legislative session, conservatives can look upon the accomplishments of the state legislature and find much to celebrate. A ... Keep Reading
Common Core Demystified, Part II
In Part I of our two-part response to the Department of Public Instruction's Common Core Demystified, (CCD) we confronted DPI's claims that Common Core Standards are state-led and ... Keep Reading
Tell President Trump to Eliminate the Congressional Obamacare Exemption!
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WSSU and Bowman Gray Stadium: A Bad Deal
Last November, Chancellor Donald Reaves of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) joined Nathan Hatch, the President of Wake Forest University, and Susan Pauly, president of Salem ... Keep Reading
