While the controversy over President Donald Trump's immigration policies has roiled the nation, immigration has a long history as part of Tar Heel politics. North Carolina, until recent decades, had... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, February 9, 2017. U.S. Reps. Jody Hice and Steve Scalise and U.S. Sen. James Lankford were fulfilling a promise embedded in the Republican platform when they recently... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, February 7, 2017. The New England Patriots showed that it’s not over till it’s over. But in North Carolina, the game is over – unless Phil Berger suddenly comes... Read More
Democrats have long way to go to get out of the hole they’re in. In the last seven years, they’ve lost both Houses of Congress and the presidency. They’ve lost 1,000 legislative seats and... Read More
The 2017 General Assembly session is only a few weeks old but there’s already a compelling example of what’s wrong with the way things are being done in Raleigh and why the conventional wisdom... Read More
Donald Trump and congressional Republicans made a big promise in 2016. They would repeal Obamacare. Immediately. Totally. End of discussion. Now, maybe not so much. Republicans on Capitol Hill say the... Read More
Today a three-judge panel in North Carolina issued a temporary restraining order blocking a law that required state Senate approval for Governor Cooper’s Cabinet nominees. Civitas President Francis... Read More
President Donald Trump has paid a lot of lip service to rounding up the “bad hombres” but it turns out he wants to deport a much larger group of immigrants than he led America to believe. Trump... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, February 3, 2017. Dale Folwell's nightmares often arrive with a title: unfunded liabilities. That may be a little esoteric for most of us, but when you're North... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in Salisbury Post, February 9, 2017. These are busy times for “political pretzels,” the contortionists who are party diehards. If they stick... Read More
