Barber says state 'blinked' on voter ID
By John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal, published in Greensboro News-Record, June 24, 2015. A noisy protest staged last week by the state NAACP at the N.C. Legislative Building in Raleigh forced... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The missing sense of urgency in Raleigh
It promises to be a long hot summer in the Legislative Building in Raleigh as House and Senate leaders try to come up with a final budget agreement for the next two years with hundreds of millions of... Read More
Time to furl that flag
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 24, 2015. Defenders of the Confederate battle flag say it represents heritage, states’ rights and rebellion against authority. It stands for none of those... Read More
Why Duke Energy is proposing a net rate decrease
For the proposed decrease to be a net decrease means, of course, that some factors are on the increase, but their effects are outweighed by the factors on the decrease. So let’s examine the... Read More
Governor McCrory wants Confederate flag off license plates
Gov. Pat McCrory plans to ask the N.C. General Assembly to pass a law that would end the use of the Confederate battle flag on specialty license plates issued by the state. McCrory spokesman Josh... Read More
Kay Hagan won't run in 2016
by Emily Cahn and Niels Lesnlewski, Roll Call, June 23, 2015. Former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan will not be mounting a challenge to her former GOP colleague, Sen. Richard M. Burr. Hagan, who... Read More
Did Republicans kill Voter ID?
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, June 23, 2015. North Carolina Republicans did a startling and uncharacteristic thing last week: In the face of a potentially unfavorable legal outcome, they gutted a... Read More
Moral claims don't persuade
In nearly three decades of writing a syndicated column on North Carolina politics and government, I’ve always received reader response. Back in the day, I’d get an occasional phone call or... Read More
Huckabee, Clinton lead NC in Elon Poll
Name recognition goes a long way in American politics, and according to the latest surveys from the Elon University Poll, it looks to be a great time to be a Clinton or a Bush running for the White... Read More
Generational composition of NC Electorate in 2016
Yesterday’s post examined projected generational changes in North Carolina’s adult population. By 2016, North Carolina is projected to have 7.85 million adults, with the following projected... Read More
