by Michael Walden, NC State professor of Economics, published in The Charlotte Observer, December 28, 2016 N.C. State University economist Michael Walden predicts that the state will pull further... Read More
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, December 27, 2016. Gov.-elect Roy Cooper is assembling a talented team to lead various state agencies despite a new law that requires confirmation by the state Senate of all... Read More
The State Board of Education said Wednesday that it will challenge a law passed two weeks ago that shifts some power from the board to the state superintendent of public instruction. The board met... Read More
One key consequence of the 2016 elections in North Carolina was that the state’s court system drew a great deal of attention. You can expect that attention to continue, and perhaps to lead to... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
