That sound you hear from Raleigh these days is coming from leading North Carolina Republicans, astonished that their iron grip on state government is in jeopardy, thrashing around desperately as they... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, December 1, 2016. Gov. Pat McCrory seems to have questioned practically every aspect of North Carolina elections, and hard-working elections officials across the... Read More
Editorial By Fayetteville Observer, December 1, 2016. In the near or far future, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory will have to accept the election results and that he lost to Democratic Attorney General... Read More
The first time I lived in the nation’s capital, Ronald Reagan was president. The conservatives I knew there were proud of their movement’s accomplishments, in such areas as reforming taxes and... Read More
The State Board of Elections has set a deadline of 7 p.m. Monday for a machine recount of more than 90,000 disputed ballots that were not tabulated by voting machines on election night. The state... Read More
by Rob Schofield, NC Policy Watch, November 30, 2016. In these divided times, there’s precious little common ground to find with the right-wing opposition With Gov. Pat McCrory’s efforts to stave... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, November 29, 2016. Pat McCrory, it appears, is going through the five stages of grief. First came denial, then anger. Right now he’s in the bargaining stage. That... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 1, 2016. A man who traffics in made-up news recently was tracked down by a real reporter. After initially declining an interview when approached at his... Read More
Lawyers for the state of North Carolina will make oral arguments in the Supreme Court next week, seeking to overturn a lower federal court’s ruling that two of the state’s congressional districts... Read More
For the second time in recent experience, and the fifth time in American history, a presidential candidate has been elected despite having failed to win a plurality of the nationwide vote. Also for... Read More
