Surrendering sports titles. Abolishing admissions exceptions for athletes. Launching a national crusade to put academics before athletics. These were some of the ideas pushed by UNC-Chapel Hill... Read More
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan holds a steady lead over her Republican challenger with Election Day just days away, according to the latest Elon University Poll. Hagan has solidified a... Read More
NC's In-Person Early Voting Continues to March Ahead of 2010's Numbers North Carolina's early voting continues its march ahead of where the state was four years in the last mid-term election; among... Read More
Chad Barefoot must have asked his team: “What can we do that will so anger and offend women that they’ll vote AGAINST me?” They came up with an ad that has backfire potential approaching the... Read More
The people currently in charge of the General Assembly and their supporters are busy these days giddily touting the news that the right-leaning Tax Foundation has moved North Carolina up 28 spots in... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday he's weighing whether to expand Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor and disabled, adding to signs that state Republican leaders may reconsider their... Read More
This week, the John Locke Foundation sponsored a lecture by one of North Carolina’s top hospital lobbyists, a self-professed fan of the free market, albeit with one big exception. The purpose of his... Read More
The election of 2014 will have widespread impacts. It will determine who will control the legislative branch, directly affect policy decisions (whether to repeal, replace, or renew earlier reforms... Read More
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, October 29, 2014. By the time the votes are counted, North Carolina’s Senate race will have cost at least $100 million. Regardless of one’s political preference... Read More
A pollster will usually ask voters: Would you say you 1) Always vote Democratic, 2) Usually vote Democratic, 3) Always vote Republican, 4) Usually vote Republican or 5) would you say you split your... Read More
