Here are some thoughts on last week’s election in North Carolina. Karl Rove, former President George W. Bush’s chief political strategist, hit the political Tar Heel trifecta with the election of... Read More
by Patrick Gannon, The Insider, November 10, 2014. Thom Tillis could be a great U.S. senator. I don't write that because of his politics – this isn't about that. I write it because of the person... Read More
During the season that the UNC men’s basketball team made its run to the 2005 NCAA championship, its players accounted for 35 enrollments in classes that didn’t meet and yielded easy, high grades... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, November 9, 2014. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dealt a startling blow to homosexuals last week when it upheld same-sex marriage bans in Kentucky... Read More
Former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo is again attempting to sue the school, this time as the lead plaintiff of a class-action suit claiming he and other scholarship... Read More
Well, that was expensive. And loud. The 2014 U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolina led the nation in money-fueled sound and fury and, in many ways, set the stage for the 2016, when a trio of hugely... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 9, 2014. During the campaign, while candidates were busy tossing around numbers about the N.C. school budget and claiming to be champions of education... Read More
Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat. When their... Read More
UNC’s flagship institution made national headlines last month, when investigator Kenneth Wainstein exposed Chapel Hill’s massive academic fraud, the beneficiaries of which were disproportionately... Read More
In the days ahead of Tuesday’s election, 10 different opinion polls from national and local firms sought to determine the favored candidate in North Carolina’s Senate race. Most determined that... Read More
