As we near the end of the week in terms of the data on North Carolina's mail-in absentee balloting, there's some good news for Republicans in their quest to catch up to the surprising performance by... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
