Pandemic offers chance to remedy structural ills
The Covid-19 pandemic highlights long-standing social ills, but it also offers an opportunity for government to experiment with actions to correct some of the dynamics that… Read More
Make voting easy and secure
When state lawmakers return to Raleigh this week, they are expected to introduce a stand-alone elections bill that will have huge consequences for North Carolina voters.… Read More
Buckle up for a new way of life
The Coronavirus will change the world, the nation and North Carolina forever. When you consider what we have learned and what we have given up, how… Read More
Coronavirus implications for the Census
There’s a lot of speculation around the state regarding how long the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will last in North Carolina. Weeks? Months? The betting… Read More
The best way to master an elephant
It sometimes seems that when politicians of different political persuasions talk about the economy, and many other issues, they are like the old parable of the… Read More
Centuries of Separate but Unequal Education
In 1997, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in the Leandro v. State case that the state educational apparatus systematically violated the constitutional rights of North Carolina children by… Read More
North Carolina voters are facing a steep learning curve in 2020
There’s all kind of new out there. New state Senate and House districts for some;New U.S. congressional districts;New voting machines;New voter ID requirements;A new, and considerably… Read More
The New F-Word (Fairness)
Author, Betty Joyce Nash, writes journalism and fiction from Charlottesville. In 2017, the University of New Mexico Press published Lock & Load: Armed Fiction. Read More
Who should solve the DACA problem?
As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in mid-November about whether President Trump can end the policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the court’s five… Read More
Are North Carolina public schools better today than when Mr. Johnson assumed his role as State Superintendent
North Carolina State Superintendent Mark Johnson was elected in 2016, defeating incumbent June Atkinson by 53,860 votes, or 1.2 percent. Johnson attended public schools, specifically the Louisiana… Read More