Opinion
COLETTI: Taxing hospitals to pay hospitals is a bad idea
Gov. Roy Cooper hopes to get federal approval to expand Medicaid in North Carolina before Donald Trump becomes president and Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act. Barely a week into his term, and before Cooper […]
Opinion
ELLIOT: Raise the age now, but pause on Marsys law
Depending on the controlling perception of public safety at any one time, legislators ping-pong between wanting to be seen as “tough on crime” and “modernizing the criminal justice system.” The crime waves of the 1980s […]
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Senate Democrats in disarray out of the gate
New CIA director Michael Pompeo was confirmed by the U.S. Senate 66-32, with yea votes from 14 Democrats, Maine’s independent senator, and all but one Republican. That’s the headline, but the details reveal less about […]