By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 30,2011
RALEIGH — Connie Wilson says there is “foot-dragging” going on. She may be right. Wilson is a former state legislator and lobbyist for a group of businesses called the Employers Coalition of North Carolina. The foot being dragged to which she referred can be found in the Department of Commerce. Earlier this year, legislators gave [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 26,2011
RALEIGH — It would be interesting to know what goes through the heads of corporate executives who scheme to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Are the competitive pressures at the top of the business world so intense that they simply don’t think beyond the moment? Perhaps they never imagine what a world would [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 23,2011
RALEIGH — Jim Davis is right about this much: Hospitals in North Carolina shouldn’t be using any monopolistic muscle to try to prevent competition that will benefit patients and the larger public. The freshman state senator and orthodontist from Macon County is wrong on another score. “Health care is a business,” Davis recently told The [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 20,2011
RALEIGH — Legislative Republicans did themselves no favors in the state capital last week. Oh, sure, they believe they’ve fired up their conservative base by passing a proposed amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage. They probably also placated some national GOP groups that still see Southern politics through the prism of the 1960s [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 17,2011
RALEIGH — Stanly County commissioners apparently aren’t backing down from their fight with aluminum-maker Alcoa. Neither is the administration of Gov. Beverly Perdue. The fight is over the water that flows through the Yadkin River and into the reservoirs created by dams that Alcoa built by almost a century ago. Alcoa wants the dams to [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 13,2011
RALEIGH — Near the end of the 19th century, Diamond City was the largest community on the Outer Banks. Never heard of it? That’s because it’s not there today. The village of 500 people was on Shackelford Banks, not far from Cape Lookout. A series of storms in the late 1800s marked the end of [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 9,2011
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s commercial fishermen have an image problem. You wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric coming from one of the primary groups that represents them, the North Carolina Fisheries Association. But since last winter, all up and down the East Coast, recreational fishermen have been bad-mouthing this state’s commercial fishermen. The reason: photos [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 6,2011
RALEIGH — Firing a football coach might fix the problems in a football program. It may not correct the academic malfeasance that seems to go hand in hand with football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In recent weeks, Dan Kane of The News & Observer of Raleigh has reported how star [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: September 2,2011
RALEIGH — Hurricanes prompt a strange human response. As the storms near land, everyone in their potential path is riveted. Fear of physical or financial harm, awe at the power of nature and curiosity about the situation’s unpredictability all enter into the equation. Then the hurricane comes and exacts its toll. For those who escape [...]
By Scott Mooneyham
Published: August 30,2011
RALEIGH — Earlier this year, North Carolina legislators chimed in on a subject that had brought derision upon state educators the year before. In passing the Founding Principles Act, legislators made known that they wanted high school students to take another dip in U.S. history that included instruction on the ideas of the nation’s founders [...]
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