In an apparent surprise to GOP leaders, rank and file members of the House voted down an economic development bill Tuesday that because of unusual legislative maneuvering needed to pass to pave the... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, August 19, 2014. More than a week after an unarmed young man was shot and killed by a police officer, there’s no slowing of the disturbing images coming out of... Read More
PPP's newest North Carolina poll continues to find Kay Hagan in the lead, although the race has tightened slightly compared to a month ago. Hagan is at 42% to 38% for Thom Tillis with Libertarian Sean... Read More
That’s $35 million down the drain. That is the estimate of what has been spent so far in North Carolina’s Senate race, to little effect. Several polls show Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan and her... Read More
Twenty-eight House Republicans bolted party ranks Tuesday, joining 26 Democrats to defeat an economic incentives program that some labeled “corporate welfare.” It was a rebuke to House Speaker... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory and some Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly say they need more “tools” for economic development in North Carolina — by which they mean targeted tax breaks and... Read More
The battered and bedraggled Tea Partiers have been taking it on the chin – they’ve gotten pounded, losing races in Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Mississippi so, now, the... Read More
The day after Republicans took control of the legislature and the Governor’s Mansion for the first time since the 19th century, former Raleigh Mayor and then-GOP party chair, Tom Fetzer told WRAL... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 18, 2014. For growing numbers of North Carolina students, there’s no place like home. The number of home schools in North Carolina has doubled over the... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, August 18, 2014. North Carolina’s Republican leadership has a new approach to the law: Muzzle the judges. The new state budget contains a provision that bars... Read More
