If you want to understand the priorities of the folks currently running the General Assembly, the details emerging from the secret budget negotiations are a good place to start. House and Senate... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, August 27, 2015. There is only one reason the N.C. Senate wants to expand the budget to market lottery tickets – the likelihood that more people will throw away... Read More
North Carolina Democrats and operatives are aggressively pushing the narrative that Gov. Pat McCrory is in trouble in his hopes for a second term in 2016. And they have ammunition – namely that... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, August 27, 2015. It will be an easy sell with some voters, no doubt. Handcuffing state lawmakers and restricting how much of our money they can use every year has a... Read More
The United States needs a great leader; a transformative consensus-builder. Are these the words of a great consensus builder: “moron,” “bimbo,” “dummy,” “loser,” “stupid... Read More
Fuses are getting shorter in the Senate these days, and that frustration was in sharp relief Thursday as lawmakers approved their third budget deadline extension. The continuing resolution, House Bill... Read More
This story has been updated to reflect the most up-to-date information. Almost 100 North Carolina state and local government email addresses have been uncovered so far among the more than... Read More
This week rumors have circulated that the N.C. Republican Party was working on behind-the-scenes efforts to keep Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump off the state’s ballots should he... Read More
It took nearly a decade for North Carolina’s 2001 redistricting plan to wind its way through the courts, resolved finally in 2009, just in time for the next census. The plans signed into law in... Read More
Seventeen years ago, our daughter went to her first day of kindergarten in the Wake County public schools. This week, she went to her first day as a student teacher in the Wake County public schools... Read More
