House Speaker to be nominated Saturday
The race to become one of the most influential players in North Carolina government comes down to the choice of 74 House Republicans in a closed-door meeting this Saturday in Randolph County. Six... Read More
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Forbes: Wilmington, Raleigh, Asheville, Durham-CH are 'smart' cities
North Carolina has plenty of "smarts" outside of Raleigh - and the Triangle. The new Forbes' "America's Smartest Cities" report ranks Raleigh ranks No. 7 among the 51 largest cities with a... Read More
Coal ash cleanup to start, but oversight plan challenged
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, November 18, 2014. At last, Duke Energy has announced that next year it will begin relocating some of the 7 million tons of coal ash in ponds at the shuttered Sutton... Read More
Panel working on education standards must be funded
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, November 20, 2014. The GOP-dominated legislature spoke loud and clear in rejecting Common Core standards and establishing a commission to recommend a new curriculum... Read More
John Hood to become president of John William Pope Foundation
Press release from John William Pope Foundation, November 20, 2014. Longtime think tank leader and political commentator John Hood has been named president of the John William Pope Foundation, the... Read More
Will state law send redistricting maps back to the drawing board?
Much of the reporting last week on argument in the Alabama redistricting case before the U.S. Supreme Court focused on the bounds of permissible gerrymanders – and rightly so, given the novelty of... Read More
The whole tarbaby
Pat McCrory had one of those days. First, a typist switched an ‘h’ for an ‘f’ so he sent out a press release announcing a Wilmington company was ‘firing... Read More
Rep Skip Stam: State supports UNC System well
Regarding the Nov. 16 Point of View “ Time for UNC leaders to get real on cuts”: Sometimes we get what we ask for. The Point of View might have an effect the writers did not intend. It was... Read More
It's beginning to feel a lot like session
It's beginning to feel a lot like – um, Jones Street – on Jones Street. It's still about two months before the mid-January start of the 2015-16 legislative session, but you wouldn't know it with... Read More
Jim Leutze mad as hell and wants his state back
I am mad as hell and I want my state back.” Former UNC-Wilmington Chancellor Jim Leutze wanted to use this phrase as the title for his new book about modern North Carolina history and politics... Read More
