Well before the N.C. General Assembly voted to repeal local business privilege-license taxes last spring, the 540 cities, towns and villages that make up the North Carolina League of Municipalities... Read More
Ambitious Republican legislators are clamoring to fill the top job in the state House left vacant by U.S. Sen.-elect Thom Tillis. The House speaker is one of the most powerful people in state... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory and two past governors on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the legislature’s authority to create commissions and appoint members that encroach on executive branch functions. The... Read More
For the first time in 40 years, North Carolina voters cast their ballots for judges without any information about pending judicial ethics complaints. This bizarre situation resulted from the last... Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday wrestled with a thorny redistricting issue, the outcome of which may bear directly upon a similar case pending in North Carolina’s highest court. In Alabama... Read More
Those who cover politics are scrambling to figure out why the polls were so off this year. Nobody saw it coming, they say. Maybe polling is no longer a reliable practice – we might be able to get... Read More
The results of last week's elections aren't even official, yet the battle for one very important seat in 2016 -- North Carolina governor -- has begun in earnest. And outside groups already are... Read More
The would-be undertakers in the media and even within the Democratic Party need to cancel their burial plans. The patient’s charts show a strong pulse. North Carolina is the only state in the... Read More
A new report about child and family poverty from the Annie E. Casey Foundation ought to be required reading for new and returning state lawmakers and Governor Pat McCrory and his staff ought to take a... Read More
For years we have been hearing about the “athletic” or “academic-athletic” scandal at UNC. Maybe I am missing something, but where was the athletic scandal? Were teams shaving points? Were... Read More
