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What’s the deal with Common Core?
The Common Core debate is far from over. Thursday afternoon the House Education Committee took up Senate Bill 812, Maintain State Authority Over State Standards, aka the Common Core Bill.…
Winkie Wilkins
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, February 18, 2014
• A National Journal analysis of Obamacare’s role in the re-election bids by Democratic Senate incumbents (including North Carolina’s Kay Hagan) concludes that the negative impacts of the law are…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, February 5, 2014
• Clay’s in: Raleigh native and “American Idol” runner-up Clay Aiken is running for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District. He launched his campaign with a nearly five-minute…
Liberty
NCGA well represented with veterans. Thank you!
Happy Veterans’ Day! How big of a deal is the military in North Carolina? Well, it’s is a pretty big deal. North Carolina has the 3rd largest military population in…
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Voucher Bill Vote
School choice and vouchers are good ideas. There has been a lot of debate and it seems many of the misunderstandings are being cleared up. This morning, the House Education…
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Tuesday, May 9, 2012 (2/2)
Patsy Keever gets a big win over Terry Bellamy in the Democratic nomination for the 10th Congressional District (Citizen-Times) Democrat Hayden Rogers wins his party’s nomination in the 11th Congressional…
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Crawford, Wilkins primary could be a microcosm of budget debate
N.C. Rep. Jim Crawford, D-Granville, has released his first television ad of the campaign season in the House District 2 Democratic primary, a race that’s sure to prove interesting: In…
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, heads up a forum giving taxpayers an inside look at the federal budget. Writing for TownHall.com, Brain Walsh takes a look at U.S. Rep. Bob…
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GOP candidate drops out of House 55 race
They’re dropping like flies. OK, not exactly. But this is the second time a candidate for state office has withdrawn in the last week, after Annette Carter jumped ship in…
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Wilkins out of the gate quickly
Winkie Wilkins, with 5 percent of the vote in, has 75 percent of the tally in the NC House District 55 Democratic primary. Fred Foster is at 21 percent and…
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Will We Apply the Same Logic to Traditional Public Schools?
Give a pat on the back to Carter Community Charter School in Durham. Its students — all minority kids, according to the story — are achieving. State Reps. Paul Luebke…
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Rating Durham County Legislators
We’ve now received two reports that provide a good snapshot of how Durham County’s state legislators fare when evaluated on issues of fiscal conservatism and social conservatism, and on issues…