It’s a new day in North Carolina. Today, the lottery (the highly debated, refuted, and welcomed) begins. While I’m excited that North Carolina is taking the steps to increase funding for public education, I still maintain that it is a SAD day when we have to resort to gambling in order to get money for our schools. What message are we sending?

Anyhow, there have been several articles on this- check below:

Daily Tar Heel
Durham Herald-Sun
News and Observer

So, North Carolinians- gamble away. No more driving to Virginia or South Carolina for those tickets…

Claiming the past – Opinion

…with the above editorial that they printed today, they are right on. Written about the renaming of Hinton James North Residence Hall to George Moses Horton Residence Hall, the DTH Editorial Board pretty much says it all.

Kudos all around on this one…