North Carolina's last liberal
What was the greatest political upset in North Carolina political history? Old timers will tell you that it was Kerr Scott’s victory in the Democratic primary for governor in 1948. Scott, a dairy... Read More
NC Spin Articles
More red flags on vouchers
The more details you hear about the state’s startlingly unaccountable private school voucher scheme and the questionable schools now receiving taxpayer money, the more troubling it all seems. In an... Read More
Voting law no help to GOP
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, October 11, 2014. Wednesday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, effectively reinstating overturned components of North Carolina’s 2013 voting law, does... Read More
Are NC voting changes common sense?
The buzz words used by Republicans in describing their efforts to make it harder for their constituents to vote are “commonsense reform.” Those were the words used again last week by Gov. Pat... Read More
That final, desperate push
by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, October 10, 2014. It has the feel of a final, desperate push. According the N&O, the GOP “dominated the airways” in the last two weeks of September in an attempt to... Read More
Wake tidal wave
As Halloween and early voting draw near, we political wizards examine entrails, cut up bats’ tails and consult the moon and stars to predict what will happen. (Translation: We trade rumors about... Read More
Raise the minimum wage or abolish it?
You don’t have to look very hard these days to see how far to the right North Carolina’s political debate has moved and in many cases how far out of mainstream some state leaders have become... Read More
Supreme Court to take up school voucher appeal
The legal battle over the state’s school voucher program has skipped a customary step and moved straight to North Carolina’s Supreme Court. On Friday, the state’s highest court unexpectedly... Read More
Federal judge strikes down NC's same-sex marriage ban
by Laura Leslie and Amanda Lamb, WRAL, October 10, 2014. Nearly two years after North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment recognizing marriage only as a union between a man and a woman... Read More
The battle for equality is not over in North Carolina
Any day now gay couples in North Carolina will finally be able to get married, a basic right long denied thousands of people in the state simply because of who they love. It will be an historic and... Read More
