City of Wilmington and New Hanover County officials are formally asking Gov. Pat McCrory to reconvene the North Carolina General Assembly to resolve the issue of the state’s film credit, which... Read More
Advocates of the North Carolina school voucher program did not wait for a judge to write his order declaring public taxpayer assistance for private schools unconstitutional before trying to halt the... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, August 25, 2014. Photos and video footage of police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronting their citizens with high-powered assault rifles, armored vehicles and other... Read More
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
