The foot soldiers in the battle for control of the Senate come well armed. With data-infused smartphones and tablets in hand, they have an unprecedented amount of information about the potential... Read More
The most shocking aspect of the academic and athletics scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has nothing to do with cheating and nothing to do with sports. It's that it wasn't... Read More
arly voting started at a fast clip, with nearly 300,000 votes cast at one-stop sites in the first four days, according to the State Board of Elections. Turnout is being watched closely because the... Read More
Nearly 800,000 military veterans call North Carolina home, yet a new report found that the state lacks a coordinated strategy to support them. The report from the N.C. General Assembly’s Program... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, October 26, 2014. Some eyebrows may have been raised by plans for a pilot program at N. C. Central University and two other historically black campuses in the UNC... Read More
N.C. Central University and two other UNC system schools will be able to admit students with SAT scores below the minimum standard under a new pilot program approved Friday that places more emphasis... Read More
Shrinking revenue streams, particularly the squeeze on federal and state reimbursement rates, are compelling more health-care systems to enter some form of merger or cost-savings partnership... Read More
Who are North Carolina’s public intellectuals? Over the years we have been blessed with influential and thoughtful people whose wise commentaries about the state’s concerns often moved pubic... Read More
When a federal judge cleared the legal path for same-sex marriage in North Carolina earlier this month, it set off a flurry of weddings and celebrations, mostly in urban areas of the state. But the... Read More
The State Board of Elections said Friday that 1,425 names on the voter rolls of North Carolina belong to people who likely do not meet one basic requirement to cast a ballot: U.S. citizenship... Read More
