The Wainstein report covers the who, what, when, where and how questions. It even covers the little why question. Why did UNC have paper classes? The answer: to maintain athletes’ eligibility. The... Read More
How do all of those political ads show up on your TV screens and all those mailers arrive in your mailbox? Money, of course – and plenty of it. But cash gets into the hands of candidates, political... Read More
We have the final totals for the vast majority of early votes coming in for North Carolina's general election; a small number of mail-in ballots will continue to trickle in, but the numbers point to a... Read More
Editorial by Salisbury Post, November 3, 2014. “In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some die... Read More
In-person early voting is over in North Carolina, and nearly 200,000 more ballots were cast compared to the last midterm election four years ago.State Board of Elections data show nearly 1.1 million... Read More
Republicans accused North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer of engaging in a “conspiracy of silence” after it pulled its story about a state government memo calling for “legal review” of... Read More
Government is far, far bigger than it used to be. Liberals generally cheer this development. Conservatives regret it. To understand the disagreement about this change, one must first understand the... Read More
by Thom Tillis, published in The Charlotte Observer, November 1, 2014. I was living in a trailer, working in a warehouse, and struggling to pay my bills. It was the late 1970s and millions of... Read More
by Kay Hagan, published in The Charlotte Observer, November 2, 2014. As North Carolina’s U.S. Senator, I put North Carolina first in every vote I take and every bill I introduce. I don’t care if... Read More
As the 2014 election cycle draws to a close, few states have drawn so much national attention as North Carolina, thanks to the tight Hagan-Tillis race, the dramatic turn in state government from blue... Read More
