In this column “Time has come today,” Chris Fitzsimon fills in the details of how the Interim Joint Finance Committee on Tax Reform was created and what happened at their first meeting Tuesday.
His commentary “Anxious, but not crazy,” discusses what election day results mean in North Carolina and [...]
The State Employees Association of North Carolina today launched a new website and petition to counter the anti-health reform website and postcard campaign by Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
The top of the website says it all:
Stop Using Our Health Care Dollars to Fund Your Political Machine!
Check [...]
Voter-Owned Elections will be a death knell for the candidates who use it.
Chapel Hill doesn’t have a problem with big money in elections.
There aren’t enough people using the program for it to have any impact.
All of these myths were shattered Tuesday night, when Voter-Owned Elections candidates Mark Kleinschmidt and [...]
The Republican leadership in the House is releasing its own version of health reform to compete with Democratic proposals. It is interesting timing to be sure. When Republicans controlled Washington no comprehensive health reform bill was introduced. Now that Republicans are out of power apparently health reform is urgently [...]
All was hardly gloom and doom for progressives in Tuesday’s election.  Anthony Foxx was elected mayor of Charlotte, the first Democrat to win the job in 22 years and he did it by defeating a protege of Republican Mayor and gubernatorial wannabe Pat McCory.
Democrats gained a seat [...]
