About: Dan E. Way

The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a bill returning a great deal of financial self-governance to the voters. Senate Bill 129 passed the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday afternoon and moved immediately to the floor calendar. Sen. Tommy Tucker, R-Union, ushered the bill through committee with some compelling numbers supporting the measure. “ThisContinue Reading

As details continue to emerge about the Obama administration’s 2014 education budget proposal, Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, continues to find more to dislike. In fact, McCluskey says from just a cursory review of the most recent developments “there seems to be a lot of bad stuff” beingContinue Reading

Gov. Pat McCrory heard a lot of requests for help from local officials on Wednesday when he met with the North Carolina League of Municipalities. The organization had 500 members present in Raleigh during the organization’s Town Hall Day, which included visits to the House and Senate. But what stood out in sharp relief toContinue Reading

True to his word, state Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, has pulled SB81 from the Senate calendar today. The bill would transfer operation and ownership of all assets of Charlotte-owned Charlotte-Douglas International Airport to a newly created, multi-county authority. It had been approved by both the Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee and Senate FinanceContinue Reading

North Carolina’s Medicaid program is in a major state of disarray, potentially violating state statutes and General Assembly directives, while costing taxpayers “hundreds of millions of dollars,” a state audit revealed. Gov. Pat McCrory said the fiscal and operational calamity reinforces his belief Medicaid rolls should not be expanded under Obamacare. State Auditor Beth WoodContinue Reading

A politically influential, grassroots organization in Orange County that supports mass transit is launching a last-minute effort to convince voters to reject a half-cent sales tax referendum on the ballot Nov. 6 to fund a Triangle Transit plan that features a light-rail corridor. “The group wants voters to recognize that if the tax increase goesContinue Reading

It is difficult to argue, with a straight face and without crossing fingers behind your back, that the tax climate in North Carolina is not a stumbling block to economic improvement. As the election season flows with gathering speed towards its Nov. 6 conclusion in the General Election, that argument is heard more loudly, andContinue Reading

Teachers unions already are marshaling their efforts to politicize and marginalize the movie “Won’t Back Down” even before it is released on Friday. The movie, inspired by real events and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, is about a Pennsylvania parent’s fight to win school choice and break away from a failing school whose elected board of educationContinue Reading