Common Sense Says are periodic resarch reports issues of concern in North Carolina: They are listed here by year and title as pdfs (and if a pdf is not available, in hmtl) for easy access.

2006

Obesity in Children
Minimum Wage
The Right to Contraception

2005

Who Lobbies?
Gay Marriage and Interracial Marriage

2004

Latinos in N.C.
Sex Education 
Health Care For All: The Uninsured in N.C.

2003

Death Penalty Special Report: Ten Terrible Cases
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

2002

AIDS Drug Assistance
Death Penalty Special Report: Disciplined Lawyers
Toll Roads
Cigarette Taxes
Charter Schools and Race

2001

Domestic Violence
Enviornmental Injustice
Coastal Wealth Protection Acts
The House Crisis
The Lottery's Impact on the Poor

2000

An Update of Topics
Child Care Workers
Voting Districts
Toll Roads
Domestic Violence and Welfare
Farmworkers
Voting Laws
The Tobacco Settlement
The Common Sense Challenge for Candidates
Private Prisons
The Return of Segregation
Tuition Increases Policy Changes for a New Millennium

1999

11-99:html/pdf: Food Safety
10-99:html/pdf: Coastal Wetland Development
09-99:html/pdf: Gun Violence
08-99:html/pdf: Long Term Care
07-99:html/pdf: Special Olympics
06-99:html/pdf: AIDS Funding
05-99:html/pdf: Lobbying
04-99:html/pdf: The Proposed North Carolina Lottery
03-99:html/pdf: Sex and Privacy
02-99:html/pdf: The Under-funding of Historically Black Colleges
01-99:html/pdf: Tax Fairness

1998

12-98:html/pdf: Consumer Debt
11-98:html/pdf: Poverty in North Carolina
10-98:html/pdf: The Death penalty is unjust