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The room fell quiet as the stalwart Senator Brent Jackson quietly stepped up to the podium to announce the North Carolina State Senate’s budget proposal late Monday afternoon. What he described in his remarks is a project, more than six years in the making called NCInnovation – a not-for-profit corporation most reporters in the room didn’t know existed.…
Read MoreThank you for taking the time to read this morning, and this weekend we join you in honoring the mothers that have been impactful in each of our lives. Today, however, we’re talking media. Trust in news reporting is in utter freefall. Why? And what does it mean? A common answer is that the purpose…
Read MoreGood Saturday morning. If you tune in to the most exciting two minutes in sports this evening, you’ll hear a familiar refrain echoing from the Churchill Downs speakers: “The horses have reached the starting gate: They’re at the post.” So too is a supermajority of state legislators. They’re poised to fundamentally reshape North Carolina’s K-12 education landscape…
Read MoreGood Saturday morning. It’s nearly May, and you likely haven’t thought all that much about the 2022 election results in a few weeks (or, if you’re healthy, a few months). That means it’s prime time to look ahead to the Way Too Early 2024 Ballot Preview. TRC Nexus is, after all, a political intelligence newsletter.…
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April 22nd, 2023 Hello this Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Conversations about America’s debt crisis often end in confusion. Our national debt is approaching $32 trillion. The U.S. government will spend about $6.2 trillion this year. It seems simple: If we’re in debt, why do policymakers keep spending so much? The irrationality of it all probably has something…
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April 15th, 2023 Good morning. Thank you for spending some time with us this Saturday. Children learn in grade school that the legislative branch makes laws and the executive branch implements them. One can imagine a fourth-grade quiz instructing a student to “define checks and balances.” But childhood’s clarity eventually gives way to reality’s haze.…
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April 8th, 2023 From the Desk of Chuck Fuller: Passover and Easter — the celebrations of life and liberty. As we emerge from the doldrums of winter to a delightful spring, we experience a collective hope brought by the transformation of the world around us. Each new day brings new a choice of how we…
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April 1st, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Today we’re taking a look at a pressing topic for the fast growing Tar Heel State… Housing affordability and affordable housing – do they mean the same thing? Yes and no and, as Dr. Seuss would say, “maybe, not quite.” They’re often used interchangeably, but each represents…
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March 25th, 2023 Thanks for joining us this Saturday morning. We’ll dive right into it. America’s health care industry is an unmitigated disaster, and it’s driving our national debt crisis. U.S. per capita health care spending is $12,318 – more than double the average of other wealthy countries: America’s per capita health care spending as a percentage of per capita health…
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August 8th, 2023 Happy Saturday, thanks for joining us. Study after study ranks the Raleigh region among the fastest-growing metro areas in the country. This week, the Centennial Authority, which owns PNC Arena, and Gale Force Holdings – the parent company for the Carolina Hurricanes – piled onto the mountain of signals that the area’s headiest days are still…
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