North Carolina will have to rely on contingency plans to delay the state's U.S. House elections this spring after the U.S. Supreme Court refused late Friday to stay a lower court order. The state's... Read More
There has been high political drama in Raleigh this week as state House and Senate leaders rushed to put new congressional district maps together after a three-judge federal panel ruled the current... Read More
So the new map is out. Democrats are flustered because the new map is so beautiful. In the Redistricting Committee meeting yesterday afternoon, Sen. Dan Blue’s prepared talking points clearly... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, February 19, 2016. At least this time, Republican legislators admitted their goal was to achieve partisan advantage. They vigorously denied it in 2011 when they... Read More
A new law that would allow Supreme Court judges to run in retention elections is on its way to being struck down. The three-judge Superior Court panel that heard a challenge to the law earlier this... Read More
North Carolina will be dealing with what amounts to two sets of congressional elections over the next month, a chaotic situation brought about by a federal court order over redistricting. Members of... Read More
With the unexpected death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the 2016 political landscape has shifted dramatically, from the current divided government between a Democratic... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, February 17, 2016. In the seminal 1984 movie comedy “Ghostbusters,” one memorable line seems appropriate. A university professor about to lose his job remarks... Read More
Same forces that would block Obama Court nominee in 2016 are happy to pass laws expanding predatory lending It’s fair to say that calling out conservative leaders in Congress for talking out of both... Read More
At one elementary school in the North Carolina mountains two-thirds of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. That would make you think that the school would not fare well on the state’s A... Read More
