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Top of the morning: Good news on LGBT equality from our neighbors to the north
There’s been a spate of good news in Virginia lately on the subject of LGBT equality. Rob Schofield has details in this morning’s commentary: https://ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Monday-Commentary.mp3
Top of the morning: Make your voice heard this Super Tuesday
This morning’s audio commentary is a reminder of how important it is that you make time to vote today. Don’t know where to vote? Find your local polling site here. And here’s more from Policy Watch’s Rob Schofield: https://ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tuesday-Commentary-3.mp3
Top of the morning: A solid plan to make NC schools constitutional
Nonpartisan experts at the Public School Forum of North Carolina released their annual summary of the top education issues facing the state last week and the list is rightfully topped by the need to finally comply with the state Supreme Court’s mandate to provide every child with a sound, basic education. Here’s Rob Schofield with […]
Top of the morning: Living wage advocates tell it like it is
Nearly 1 in 3 workers in North Carolina get paid poverty wages. Today’s audio commentary takes a closer look at the need to raise the current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Here’s Policy Watch’s Rob Schofield: https://ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tuesday-Commentary-1.mp3
Top of the morning: Past time for state Supreme Court to end racial bias in NC criminal trials
This morning’s audio commentary takes a look at racial bias in North Carolina criminal trials. Here’s Policy Watch’s Rob Schofield: https://ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Friday-Commentary.mp3
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North Carolina is back on the front page of the New York Times this morning, in a story with the headline “North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way” That is putting it mildly. The story includes an interesting take on the General Assembly by News & Record columnist Doug Clark. Doug Clark, a […]
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The debate rages on about the tax cut for millionaires passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Pat McCrory, breaking a campaign promise that any tax reform would be revenue neutral. A Charlotte Observer analysis of the tax plan included this from Rep. Ruth Samuelson, who reportedly wants to succeed Thom Tillis as […]
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AP reports that the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce is worried that cuts in federal spending on transportation, schools, and health care will cost the state 34,000 jobs. Funny that the chamber folks didn’t have anything bad to say about a state budget that made huge cuts in spending on transportation, schools, and health care. […]
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Monday was one of the more bizarre days and nights at the General Assembly in a long time and we will have plenty to say about it here in the next few days as we sort out all the deals and the damage that was done. But you have to give the Republican legislative leaders […]
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The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act has unleashed another round of ridiculous spin from the folks on the Right, including the “government takeover of health care” claim which GOP spin-doctor-in-chief Frank Luntz has encouraged all Republicans to use since 2009. It was false then and it is false now. It was dubbed the […]
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Most of the blame for the decision by legislative leaders to slam the door again in the face of the survivors of the state’s horrific eugenics program has been placed on Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger. And he deserves a lot of it. Berger said there was not enough support in the Senate to include […]
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Here is the New York Times story on the decision by legislative leaders not to provide any compensation for the victims of the state’s horrific eugenics program. Republicans did manage to find state money for Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte, the private culinary school that former House Speaker Jim Black used to make sure received state support. […]