GOP can't blame Dems for HB2 failure
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 23, 2016. Everyone expected the General Assembly to repeal HB2, the "bathroom law" that demands that transgender people who look like women go into men's... Read More
NC Spin Articles
McCrory addresses failed special session
by Matt Caulder, NC Capitol Connection, December 22, 2016. Gov. Pat McCrory addressed the outcome of the special session intended to repeal HB 2 yesterday, which ended with HB 2 still in place, in a... Read More
Republican power games continue long tradition
Once upon a time, a political party was faced with the loss of a branch of government to its political nemesis. It came following a rancorous and bitter election, which saw the sitting incumbent... Read More
Governor McCrory leaves office with a whimper
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, December 20, 2016. Stop us if you’ve heard this one. The North Carolina legislature passes a bad bill and sends it to Gov. Pat McCrory. McCrory says the bill... Read More
After 5 year legal battle, NC Supreme Court rules Asheville can keep water
If it were whiskey, not water, that flowed from the taps in the City of Asheville, then perhaps the state’s highest court would not have had to intervene. But whiskey is for drinking, Mark Twain... Read More
Trump truths
The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, gave us the Electoral College. Now the Electoral College has given us President Trump. We know he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, and we know... Read More
A plague on both their houses
The devil never sleeps; for four years the Republican powers-that-be in Raleigh worked and strained to have Pat McCrory appoint their sons, cousins, friends and contributors to patronage jobs – then... Read More
They own it
The GOP continues to bring shame to the state of North Carolina. Last week, they stripped power from the newly elected Democratic governor and gave it to themselves. Yesterday, they spent $42,000 of... Read More
But Johnny does it
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in The Rocky Mount Telegram, December 21, 2016. Imagine that after years of bad cell phone service you changed providers three months ago and... Read More
North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy
In 2005, in the midst of a career of traveling around the world to help set up elections in some of the most challenging places on earth – Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Lebanon, South Africa, Sudan and... Read More
