Winston-Salem Journal editorial
Gov. Bev Perdue isn’t helping her anemic voter-approval ratings by pushing some $1.5 billion in annual tax increases, but she is doing the right thing for North Carolina. This state cannot afford to cut public education to the extent that will be necessary without a tax increase of this size.
Approximately 3,400 teaching positions [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina voters now have an unfavorable opinion of Gov. Bev Perdue according to a new poll released today by the Civitas Institute.  This represents a dramatic reversal from the glowing ratings voters gave Perdue just a few months ago.
According to the live-caller poll of 600 voters, when asked of their opinion [...]

Voters Disapprove of General Assembly Proposed Ban
RALEIGH, N.C. – With the NC Senate giving final approval to a bill that would ban single-use plastic bags at certain areas of North Carolina’s coastline, a new poll released today by the Civitas Institute shows that voters strongly disapprove of such a ban.
According to the live-caller poll of [...]

Winston-Salem Journal Editorial
The General Assembly is halfway along to a major overhaul of civil-negligence law. The change is needed for true justice to prevail.
In negligence cases where people and/or property are harmed, North Carolina uses the old common-law principle of contributory negligence. We are one of only four states that do. The jury is [...]

The latest poll from PPP asks voters: if there was an election today, would you choose incumbents or challengers.

Winston-Salem Journal Editorial
Plastic bottles will soon be banned from North Carolina landfills and benefits will accrue in both environmental and economic terms.
Four years ago, legislators banned the sending of plastic-bottle waste to landfills after Oct. 1, 2009. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources will soon begin working with [...]

Winston-Salem Journal
With a projected revenue shortfall of approximately $4 billion, legislators are making painful spending cuts. But one proposed by House members responsible for the education budget is just unacceptable, no matter how large the deficit.
North Carolina cannot afford to pare five days from the 2009-10 school calendar and 10 from the year following. The [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Voters in North Carolina continue to sour on Governor Bev Perdue’s performance in office according to the latest poll released today by the Civitas Institute.
According to the live caller poll of 600 voters, 46 percent of voters approve of the job she is doing as governor.  42 percent disapprove.  The 4 percentage [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Americans say that Congress and Wall Street/corporations share equal responsibility for the current state of the U.S. economy, according to a recent Capstrat-Public Policy Polling nationwide survey.
Some 30% of voters interviewed named Wall Street/corporations and Congress when given the choice among Wall Street/corporations, Congress, overreaching consumers and mortgage lenders.
Twenty-one percent of survey [...]