Even without a budget, public schools across North Carolina will welcome students to a new year. In his veto statement Gov. Cooper calls on Republicans to spend more for public ... Keep Reading
Archives for August 2019
A #MeToo movie, buying Greenland, and complying with ICE: an interview with Stephen Kent
Join us for an interview with Stephen Kent of Young Voices and Washington Examiner about Bombshell, a movie punctuating Fox News' Roger Ailes harassment of women, and the broader ... Keep Reading
Education budget, Part I: Schools open soon — even without a state budget
Nearly two months have passed since Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the state budget approved by the North Carolina House and Senate. A 2016 budget provision will fund schools at current ... Keep Reading
More to absentee ballot fraud in Bladen County? Part 2
Evidence shows that the Bladen County Improvement Association paid people who engaged in ballot harvesting A pattern of mass absentee ballot requests and mass absentee ... Keep Reading
More to absentee ballot fraud in Bladen County? Part 1
Who is Lola Wooten and why was Dan McCready’s lawyer trying to obscure her? An attorney for Dan McCready, Marc Elias, attempted to raise doubts about there being any ... Keep Reading
Medicaid Expansion Resource Page
The driving policy issue for the 2019 legislative session has been whether or not the state government should expand the Medicaid program as provided for under the Affordable Care ... Keep Reading
Biden versus Trump, gun restrictions, and a lackluster stock market
The latest poll numbers indicate that President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are in a statistical tie in North Carolina. If Biden receives the Democratic ... Keep Reading
Judging by the Detroit debate, Democrats are having a hard time with economics
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg continued to urge adoption of higher minimum wage laws at the Democratic debate in Detroit. Sanders told his ... Keep Reading
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
Doxing, gun laws, and tariffs
This week, Donald Bryson, Civitas' president and CEO, joins the show to discuss the recent events in El Paso and the conversation surrounding "Red Flag" laws now happening in ... Keep Reading