by Daniel Erspamer and Donald Bryson The ongoing impasse surrounding North Carolina’s budget has at its root Medicaid expansion—Gov. Roy Cooper supports it, while legislators ... Keep Reading
Gov. Roy Cooper
NC Budget Watch, Day 47 – $1.1 million of hypocrisy per day
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Cooper administration's corporate incentive frenzy in the days after his June 28 veto of the budget bill passed by the North Carolina General ... Keep Reading
Gov. Cooper demonstrates again what a sham so-called nonpartisan redistricting would be
The base political hackery that is Gov. Roy Cooper’s treatment of the NC State Board of Elections (SBE) continues apace. Gov. Cooper has lost three SBE chairs since December. ... Keep Reading
Fraud in public education; progressive style
Gov. Roy Cooper’s war on school choice continues. The governor vetoed SB 392 on July 29. Among other things, the bill would have allowed virtual charter schools to grow ... Keep Reading
NC BUDGET WATCH, Day 33: $1.2 million in corporate incentives per day
Today marks 33 days since Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed House Bill 966 - 2019 Appropriations Act - the budget bill passed by the North Carolina General Assembly. Gov. Roy Cooper's ... Keep Reading
3 guiding principles on the budget impasse
North Carolina is nearing three weeks into the new fiscal year without a new state budget. An inconvenience for some, but in no ways devastating or a crisis. Spending levels revert ... Keep Reading
2020 is looking like another close election
Close elections have become as North Carolinian as barbecue. Based on (an admittedly very early) Civitas/Harper poll, it appears that we are going to be in store for more of the ... Keep Reading
Kim Strach firing tells all we need to know about what Roy Cooper means by “nonpartisan”
The firing of Kim Strach was a hypocritical partisan act by Gov. Roy Cooper’s State Board of Elections (SBOE) at the behest of his political team Changes at the SBOE leave the ... Keep Reading
Biden makes it official, the gender pay gap, and the politics of Cooper’s infanticide veto
With former Vice President Joe Biden making it official, the Democratic field is now brimming over, with 20 candidates in all. Polling indicates that Biden is the clear front ... Keep Reading
Cooper would be wrong to reverse corporate tax cuts
Cooper is likely to call for an increase of NC’s corporate tax Corporate taxes, however, harm workers though job loss and declining wages State legislators should work toward ... Keep Reading
