Employees and appointed members of North Carolina's 100 county boards of elections should be mindful when they log onto Facebook pages, Twitter and other social media sites. The State Board of... Read More
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has been running hard for reelection for more than a year. Republican nominee Thom Tillis, the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, has been... Read More
Ten years ago this month, Barack Obama first streaked across the political skies with a rousing Democratic Convention speech in which he famously proclaimed there wasn’t a red America and a blue... Read More
If ever there was a subject on which critics of North Carolina’s current state political leadership and its serial inactivity when it comes to protecting the environment would love to be proved... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 26, 2014. It was jarring a few weeks ago to hear a Republican state senator warn of “two North Carolinas where the rich continue to get richer and the... Read More
Criminal defendants charged with all but the most serious felonies would be able to have a judge, rather than a jury of their peers, decide whether they are guilty or innocent if voters approve a... Read More
Chalk it up as another way that incumbent legislators in general have a distinct advantage over challengers in N.C. General Assembly races this and every other election year. Besides the name... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory appears ready to sign a bill regulating coal ash despite his concerns that it unconstitutionally usurps his power to appoint the majority of an oversight commission, a provision that... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, August 25, 2014. Republicans who successfully pushed North Carolina into an accelerated schedule for fracking speak of it as an utterly safe procedure that will lead to... Read More
by Jim Morrill, News and Observer, August 23, 2014. Three weeks after signing into law a major overhaul of the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Barack Obama will come to Charlotte Tuesday to... Read More
