The race for the Republican nomination in the 7th Congressional District has focused less on issues in Washington and more on the candidates’ personal and professional lives. Wilmington attorney... Read More
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has gone to meddling in next month’s North Carolina Republican Senate primary. The Senate Majority PAC, which is closely associated with Reid, last week began a... Read More
From Korey H. Coon, chair of the N.C. Commission of Workforce Development and human resources director for Caterpillar, Inc.’s Building Construction Products Division: Economic developers will tell... Read More
Over the last few years there have been many comments about overcrowded K-12 classrooms and understaffed schools. Often observers tie these problems to North Carolina’s growing population in ways... Read More
When hundreds of teachers leave in the middle of the school year – in one of the nation’s best places to live and one of its best school systems – we have a crisis. But Republicans are in... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, April 18, 2014. "The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at... Read More
North Carolina showed the country's second-largest increase in employment in March, when 19,400 jobs were added and the jobless rate fell to 6.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said... Read More
While Governor McCrory and his patrons at the John Locke Foundation were bragging about tax cuts on Tax Day, Republicans in the Legislative Building were digging an even deeper teacher-pay hole for... Read More
Harry Reid’s new ad is hardball with a thud. Here’s Reid’s story in a nutshell: He says Thom Tillis shared an apartment with his Chief of Staff, who had an affair with a married lobbyist, and... Read More
The irony seemed to completely escape Governor Pat McCrory Wednesday as he took the podium at a Tax Day event to heap praise on last year’s tax package that gave huge breaks to millionaires and... Read More
