Time to rethink NC elections
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 30, 2014. The recent Republican U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi should spur creative thinking about North Carolina’s election system. Other states offer... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The deal apparently is a deal
RALEIGH, N.C. — Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Thursday, July 31. Here's what's going on at the legislature and around state government today. THE BUDGET: Formal drafts of the... Read More
NC could have used Erskine Bowles as governor
What North Carolina needed during the past 18 months was Erskine Bowles sitting in the governor’s chair. Bowles, a Charlotte investment banker, has precisely what has been sorely lacking in Raleigh... Read More
Power plants sale to give boon to the area
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, July 20, 2014. Rocky Mount residents ought to be breathing a collective sigh of relief after news broke earlier this week of a deal between Duke Energy and the N.C... Read More
Executions no place for trial and error
Whether or not the government should execute people for particularly heinous crimes has always posed murky moral, ethical and legal questions. But whether people agree or disagree on the subject, it... Read More
Cooper declares game over before the game is over
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper is premature in giving up defense of the state's marriage laws. "It is time to stop making arguments we will lose and instead move forward, knowing that the ultimate... Read More
Truth and justice
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 28, 2014. A TV ad in Tennessee targets three justices on the state’s highest court. A narrator says: “28 states fought against Obamacare. But Tennessee... Read More
Duke Energy, eastern power agency sign $1.2 billion deal
Duke Energy Progress has agreed to buy for $1.2 billion the interests that Eastern North Carolina municipal power systems own in four Duke power plants, the parties said Monday. The agreement, which... Read More
Advocates wary of scant budget details
As lawmakers work out details of the $21 billion budget deal struck this weekend, advocates for groups at the center of the stalemate are voicing skepticism about the information revealed so far... Read More
Cooper: NC to stop defending marriage amendment
by Amanda Lamb, WRAL, July 28, 2014. Following a federal appeals court ruling Monday that Virginia's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said his... Read More
