Nationally, 46% of women aged 25-64 reported having an associate degree or higher in 2017 compared to 39% of men, a gap of seven percentage points. In North Carolina, this gap was even larger: 48% of... Read More
While election scandals, national issues, and candidate announcements for 2019 and 2020 races have dominated the political headlines, North Carolina is continuing to head in the direction of greater... Read More
Colleges, universities and various state institutions recently submitted applications to the NC State Board of Elections to have their student and employee ID’s approved for use in voting. Of the... Read More
A poll conducted by ProgressNC Action shows that North Carolinians overwhelmingly support the Mueller investigation and want Senator Thom Tillis to call for the report to be made public when it’s... Read More
I had the opportunity to sit in on a hearing of the General Assembly’s House Committee on Elections and Ethics Law last Wednesday. On the agenda of that hearing was a report by State Board of... Read More
When Cecil Staton announced his resignation as chancellor of East Carolina University this week, it had an air of inevitability, but not because of Staton’s performance since his hiring in... Read More
Republican legislative leaders have reached agreement on a 2019-20 General Fund budget cap of slightly more than $24 billion, shaving about $500 million from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed... Read More
Allies of UNC System Board of Governors Chairman Harry Smith are trying to silence a critic on the board, Carolina Journal has learned. Board member Tom Fetzer is lining up votes to introduce an... Read More
Is it just one more small-town business that has closed its doors? Or is there more to it? For North Carolina barbecue lovers, last week’s closure of Wilber’s in Goldsboro was like the loss of a... Read More
American states and localities are, on the whole, administered more responsibly than the federal government is. Their superiority has nothing to do with the qualities of the individuals involved... Read More
