Daily Archives: June 6, 2012

There was an item in today’s Raleigh News and Observer reporting on the fact that many North Carolina hospitals took part in a national program that grades hospitals based on safety. The following is a quote from the CEO of  the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, the organization that established the grading system: WeContinue Reading

The NC Public Schools Application System website, which is maintained by the NC Department of Public Instruction, provides a glimpse of the public school job market in North Carolina.  (Please note that the website does not include job listings for the state’s two largest districts, Wake and Charlotte-Mecklenburg.  Both districts maintain their own employment websites.)Continue Reading

…this time in defiance of Arizona’s law making sex selection abortions illegal.

Here are a few thoughts about the latest News & Observer editorial objecting to a proposed corporate tax credit bill that would provide private school scholarships to low-income families: – N&O editors write that private schools are “being shown the love,” but it is actually low-income families that are being shown the love. – TheyContinue Reading

Hans von Spakovsky, the Heritage Foundation expert who has supported voter ID legislation in North Carolina and other states, devotes a new National Review Online column to Attorney General Eric Holder’s latest indefensible action in Florida. Time and again, the Holder Justice Department has exhibited politically driven law enforcement. But its latest instance of lawlessnessContinue Reading

The News & Observer tells us this morning that Progress Energy wants approval from the N.C. Utilities Commission to force ratepayers to subsidize up to 80 percent of the cost of installing energy-efficient equipment in “flower shops, pizzerias, and other small businesses.” This presents a good opportunity to remind you about the problems Roy CordatoContinue Reading

• At the final walk-through for journalists at the site of Charlotte’s Democratic National Convention, party chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz calls North Carolina a “critical battleground” state.   • Female Democratic state lawmakers use Mitt Romney’s push in North Carolina to call for federal “pay equity” law.   • Henderson County Republican Spence Campbell, anContinue Reading