The driving force behind the Republican-written $21.25 billion budget the Senate approved around 12:30 a.m. Friday was to substantially increase teacher pay by moving money around in whatever... Read More
The state Senate gave final approval early Friday to a $21.1 billion compromise spending plan for the year, despite complaints from teachers and Democrats that legislative leaders' claims about pay... Read More
As North Carolina’s legislative session draws to a close and we enter the last quarter of the 2014 campaign season, Democrats are hoping it will be a rerun of 1998. Republicans are hoping that it... Read More
Shades of John Edwards and “Two Americas!” The state Senate seemed to channel the former Senator in the debate over how to help the state’s stagnating rural areas keep up with booming urban... Read More
It seems fitting somehow that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced the decision that marks another major step toward marriage equality in North Carolina this week, just a few days after... Read More
Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to. North Carolina’s solar subsidies, some of the most generous in the nation, are sort of like a runaway train that just keeps... Read More
Given your background on Republican political campaigns, why would you take a job working for green energy?” I endured this question for several months after accepting a position as the Director of... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 30, 2014. The recent Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi should spur creative thinking about North Carolina’s election system. Other states offer... Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. — Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Thursday, July 31. Here's what's going on at the legislature and around state government today. THE BUDGET: Formal drafts of the... Read More
What North Carolina needed during the past 18 months was Erskine Bowles sitting in the governor’s chair. Bowles, a Charlotte investment banker, has precisely what has been sorely lacking in Raleigh... Read More
