by Ken Goodman | Jun 30, 2015 | Ads |
The other day a voter in Rockingham asked me what is the difference with the Main Street Democrats, how would we govern the state? It was a legitimate question and one I welcomed. Here is what I said. It is important for Democrats to rebuild their trust and their...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 15, 2015 | Economy, Editor's Blog, NCGov |
Give Pat McCrory and his team credit for staying on message. Almost two years ago, McCrory responded to a scathing op-ed about North Carolina in the New York Times. McCrory said that contrary to the “liberal world view of The Times,” he was leading North Carolina in a...
by Seth Effron | Oct 8, 2014 | Economic Development, Economy, NCGov |
Last Friday Gov. Pat McCrory frantically zipped around the state celebrating his proclamation of “Manufacturing Day” in North Carolina. The governor and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker seemed giddy in announcing that as many as 700 jobs would be coming to North...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 24, 2014 | Editor's Blog, NCGov, Transportation |
Pat McCrory and company rolled out a $1 billion transportation plan last week. What took him so long? Imagine how different his tenure could have been if he had rolled into Raleigh pledging to update infrastructure in the parts of the state most hurt by free trade...
by Seth Effron | Sep 20, 2014 | Economy, NCGA, NCGov |
North Carolina’s unemployment rate is now higher than it was in January. The rate, 6.8 percent for August, has gone up each month since May. There were 29,000 fewer people on the job in August than in July. The rate would be even worse if there weren’t so many people...
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