With the General Assembly on vacation this week, here's a look back at what your state representatives and senators have accomplished and what they haven't since they arrived in January. After reading... Read More
Republican state Rep. Michael Speciale of New Bern, who voted against HB 263 before he voted for it last week, has responded to Gov. Pat McCrory's statementscondemning the measure: "Governor McCrory... Read More
Teenagers are caught up in a legislative dispute over who should provide driver's education classes, who should pay for them and whether the classes are worth the trouble in the first place. North... Read More
Editorial by Asheville Citizen-Times, July 2, 2015. By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a voter-enacted Arizona constitutional amendment that puts districting in the hands of an independent... Read More
It is difficult to talk about race in our country, so all too often, we don’t. We ignore conversations about the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police until protests make the nightly... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, July 4, 2015. North Carolina's Republican governor and Republican legislature might not agree on everything, but they saw eye-to-eye on how to fix the state's ailing... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, July 6, 2015. A reader recently pointed out a beautiful thing: Chapter 143C of North Carolina state law. It's called, quite simply, the State Budget Act. Last... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 5, 2015. In an unsettling 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court last week blessed a lethal cocktail that has resulted in gruesome suffering in some executions... Read More
Matthew Philips documents for Bloomberg Businessweek the poor long-term outlook for Social Security’s disability benefits. An audit by the Office of the Inspector General released on June... Read More
A state trooper whose son was killed while driving drunk is now suing the businesses who supplied and served alcohol at a wedding party the teen attended before the fatal crash. The trooper and his... Read More
