Candidates question impact of same-sex ruling
Editor's note: Story has been updated to clarify the candidates' comments on the ruling. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/11/4226134/after-the-same-sex-ruling-the.html?sp... Read More
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NC Supreme Court takes five cases from Court of Appeals
The N.C. Supreme Court surprised parties in several lawsuits Friday by snatching their cases away from the state Court of Appeals. These include an appeal by environmentalists who want to block the... Read More
Changes won't decide election
The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted the stay on North Carolina’s election-law changes for the 2014 campaign. It was a dramatic end to months of dire warnings, raucous debate, and courtroom... Read More
Good news for the GOP, as well as "You can never have enough bar graphs"
As we near the end of the week in terms of the data on North Carolina's mail-in absentee balloting, there's some good news for Republicans in their quest to catch up to the surprising performance by... Read More
North Carolina's last liberal
What was the greatest political upset in North Carolina political history? Old timers will tell you that it was Kerr Scott’s victory in the Democratic primary for governor in 1948. Scott, a dairy... Read More
More red flags on vouchers
The more details you hear about the state’s startlingly unaccountable private school voucher scheme and the questionable schools now receiving taxpayer money, the more troubling it all seems. In an... Read More
Voting law no help to GOP
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, October 11, 2014. Wednesday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, effectively reinstating overturned components of North Carolina’s 2013 voting law, does... Read More
Are NC voting changes common sense?
The buzz words used by Republicans in describing their efforts to make it harder for their constituents to vote are “commonsense reform.” Those were the words used again last week by Gov. Pat... Read More
That final, desperate push
by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, October 10, 2014. It has the feel of a final, desperate push. According the N&O, the GOP “dominated the airways” in the last two weeks of September in an attempt to... Read More
Wake tidal wave
As Halloween and early voting draw near, we political wizards examine entrails, cut up bats’ tails and consult the moon and stars to predict what will happen. (Translation: We trade rumors about... Read More
