Just about anything can happen in American politics. Those who doubt this oft-demonstrated truism need only to turn their gaze a few hundred miles north to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to be reminded of... Read More
Senate Republicans yesterday introduced a bill that could offer affordable health insurance options for more than 100,000 small business employees and self-employed people. Senate Bill 86 would make... Read More
The son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris testified Wednesday that he warned his father repeatedly that he believed a political operative now at the center of an election-fraud... Read More
Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back east to the North Carolina tidewater? There are two good... Read More
There was much talk this week and last about state Superintendent Mark Johnson’s Tuesday night limelight, the “big” announcement you might have missed because you, like most of North Carolina... Read More
Is it the job of government to make you happy? While it may seem like a straightforward question, there are some important subtleties packed into those few words. On the face of it, “no” feels... Read More
I was born in Charlotte. But I grew up in rural Mecklenburg County. There used to be such a place — and, indeed, quite a few such places still exist in our increasingly urbanized state. My family... Read More
by Dr. Michael Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, February 14, 2019. My wife is not an economist, but she does sometimes ask me about economic issues. One of her most frequent questions is about... Read More
For the next month, it’s open season for new bills in the North Carolina General Assembly. We keep an eye on all of them, but we all know that some bills are more important than others. Here are the... Read More
A recent Elon University Poll has found that a majority of North Carolinians support changing how the state regulates retail liquor sales, with 52 percent in favor of the state closing ABC stores and... Read More
