Who are the opponents of a voter ID requirement? If we rely only on mainstream media, we would believe that all minority groups, especially African Americans and registered ... Keep Reading
Issues
Education Editorial: long on rhetoric, short on facts
“It’s time for the Republican legislators to stop deluding themselves about the adequacy of their funding for public education.” Winston Salem Journal Editorial, November 15, ... Keep Reading
Class Size Ratios: Time to Throw Away an Outdated Idea
For years a certain unquestioned assumption has governed North Carolina public schools: smaller class sizes in the lower grades will help boost student achievement. The formal ... Keep Reading
The Democrats’ Charlotte Convention: Opportunity Costs?
With eleven months to go before the start of the 2012 Democratic National Convention (Convention) in Charlotte, many questions remain to be answered. The Convention has been sold ... Keep Reading
SBOE Flip Flops on Absentee Ballot Request
First Approves DemocracyNC, Then Denies Request from GOP For a time, Bob Hall (Director, DemocracyNC) was the only person outside of the State Board of Elections (SBOE) who knew ... Keep Reading
State Lawmakers’ “Risky Business”
Risk is the word of the day on Jones Street. “At-risk” that is. A term used for deciding eligibility for the state’s Pre-K program (formerly More at Four), “at-risk” has had a ... Keep Reading
School Job Losses in Large LEAs Contradict Left’s Talking Points
An August 31st press release by the Department of Public Instruction declared that this fall, the public schools will eliminate more than 6,300 positions and layoff more than ... Keep Reading
Mayer Flails – and Fails in New Yorker Article
Add Jane Mayer to the list of liberals trolling the backwaters of North Carolina politics desperately looking for evidence to validate the lefts’s predetermined conclusion that Art ... Keep Reading
The General Assembly’s Pre-K Lemons
Life handed the General Assembly lemons, and they’re making… Well, for the time being they’re still just lemons. But recent developments at the General Assembly in the form of a ... Keep Reading
Dem Budget Tour Brings Everything But the Truth
Earlier this week House and Senate Democrats began a state wide budget tour to criticize the Republican-authored state budget and job losses in state government and the public ... Keep Reading
