Ned Barnett
NC’s cost of obstinance on Obamacare
The cost of saying no to a state-run exchange has not been so apparent or much debated. Its effects didn’t begin to materialize until last week when Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Coventry insurance companies posted their plans and premium prices on the North Carolina exchange being run by the federal...
Ned Barnett
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NED BARNETT
Barnett: NC Catholic bishops sever a bond with other churches
The NC Council of Churches said with regret last week that the bishops of the stateʼs two dioceses based in Charlotte and Raleigh had informed the council they were withdrawing over differences on gay marriage and abortion.
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NED BARNETT
Barnett: Folt off to a promising start as UNC chancellor
Carol Folt, nearly three months into her job as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is impressing people inside and outside of the Carolina community with her engaging personality, her diplomatic skills, her eagerness to learn and her ability to explain.
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NED BARNETT
America’s growing income divide
The gap between the rich and everyone else is the widest since the Roaring ’20s. Yet no movement of protest, no populist politics are taking root. Republicans are allied with the wealthy – and the Democrats are, too.
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NED BARNETT
Frustration grows as DHHS stumbles
Eight months into her tenure, DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos leads an agency increasingly in disarray.
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NED BARNETT
On Labor Day, remember the jobless
Once the nation helped its citizens who needed work. Now the attitude seems to be: Get a job.
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NED BARNETT
Barnett: 'Gov. Moonbeam' lights the way in NC
As Gov. McCrory copes with his nose-diving popularity, he could learn a thing or two about fixing things from his gubernatorial peer on the other side of the country. California Gov. Jerry Brown faced a mirror image of McCrory's challenges and, also as in a mirror image, everything was reversed.
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NED BARNETT
The news about the news
Now, split between growing indifference to newspapers and fear of losing them, hope rises for saviors who will respond to both. In this role, Bezos is the ideal
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NED BARNETT
Raleigh’s downtown boom spurred by public role
Downtown has grown unabated through the worst recession since the Depression. Now it’s thriving and about to really boom because of early public investment.
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NED BARNETT
Barnett: GOP misses a historic opportunity
The new rulers of Raleigh chose the role of occupiers rather than liberators. They set the capital against themselves.
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NED BARNETT
An ounce of prevention for health decline
NC Prevention Partners is trying to get businesses to see the value of a healthier workforce.
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