North Carolina's 2014 election season hosted a neck-and-neck Senate contest that featured record-shattering campaign spending. It was also just a warm-up for what's to come. In 2016, a year when only... Read More
Teachers, bail bondsmen, city governments and even the governor are on the roster of those who have sued the General Assembly over the past four years, all claiming the legislature overstepped limits... Read More
Thirty-four university-based centers and institutes will have the chance to make their case for continued support next week before a UNC Board of Governors panel reviewing them. The 34 include some... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 7, 2014. North Carolina Republicans have learned to love the lottery. The state legislature created the lottery in 2005 without a single Republican vote... Read More
Did Fagin’s pickpockets stimulate the economy of London? If you’ve read Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist or seen the musical derived from it, Oliver!, you immediately recognize the name. Fagin... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 7, 2014. This is an updated version of an editorial we published on Dec. 7, 2006. Seventy-three years ago today, Japanese air and naval forces attacked... Read More
Has Mayor Pat finally arrived in Raleigh? You know, the guy who was the popular mayor of Charlotte, a Democratic-leaning city, for a record 14 years. One was wondering whether that McCrory – the... Read More
A smoker of two packs of cigarettes a day, Karen Carlton is looking at a $684 monthly health insurance bill starting in January. Her affection for Misty Menthol Silvers will cost Carlton $114 a month... Read More
Talk about a fellow being star-crossed – after the election as everyone took a deep breath and settled back peacefully for Thanksgiving the Governor, without a lot of hoopla, quietly launched his... Read More
You know it was a bad story when somebody says at breakfast, “Did Senator Hagan know she was being quoted when she said that about Obama?” We don’t know. But we do know that Hagan’s... Read More
