Nearly 20 members of the General Assembly, including several powerful veteran lawmakers, will not be running for re-election in 2016, and that number could swell as the candidate filing period that... Read More
Commentators and academic analysts trying to make sense of North Carolina’s fascinating and ever-changing politics have been arguing lately that the state is becoming increasingly urbanized — and... Read More
In October 2011, just a few months after the end of the first General Assembly session controlled by Republicans in more than a hundred years, House Speaker Thom Tillis told a small group of GOP... Read More
Donald Trump is like a fever in the Republican body politic: a sign of sickness. A lot of Republicans are hoping and praying the fever breaks before the sickness infects the entire body. Trump has... Read More
We’ll know much about the 2016 elections after the first three weeks of December. Why? That’s the period for candidates across the state — including for governor and all 170 General Assembly... Read More
Playing the blame game following the Planned Parenthood shootings in Colorado Springs, at this point, is premature and unfair. Not a lot is known about the suspect, who once lived in the North... Read More
North Carolina residents have a wide array of choices in seeking a college education. There are more than 50 universities in the state, along with 58 community colleges. Many of these institutions... Read More
Workers grinding and chipping old paint and rust away from the hull, decks and inner compartments of the passenger ferry Carteret added to the layer of dust that had settled over the 26-year-old ship... Read More
A lawsuit filed in Wake County on Monday claims a new state law allowing retention referendums for the North Carolina Supreme Court is unconstitutional. The law, passed in June, allows sitting... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, November 29, 2015. From an editorial Tuesday in the Raleigh News & Observer: A town hall meeting at UNC-Chapel Hill to discuss racial issues on campus was disrupted... Read More
