If you’ve heard a great state slogan, you don’t forget it. Michigan — a cold, economically depressed place to many folks in North Carolina — has done a pretty good job of jazzing up its image... Read More
The ice melting under Republicans’ feet isn’t climate change, it’s Obamacare. The issue on which they bet the house this year may be disappearing. A poll this month in North Carolina... Read More
Editorial by Durham News-Herald, April 29, 2014. The Common Core educational standards adopted by nearly every state are caught up in a political storm and fury that has forged unusual alliances and... Read More
Four years ago, Superior Court Judge Eric Levinson issued an extraordinary order. He overturned the jury’s guilty verdict in a burglary case against a man whose conviction would have made him a... Read More
One of this year's few endangered Republican incumbents is not a "moderate," or an establishment figure, or a lover of TARP. He's Rep. Walter Jones, a 10-term congressman who turned hard against the... Read More
The Triangle unemployment rate edged up in March despite the region adding 3,700 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis during the month. The jobless rate increased two-tenths of a percentage point to... Read More
Before speaking further, the governor acknowledged he was stepping on some toes. With the president of Methodist University sitting next to him and the chancellor of Fayetteville State University in... Read More
Last year Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly managed to accomplish something that many longtime legislative observers thought was highly improbable if not impossible: a substantial rewrite of... Read More
PPP's newest Republican Senate poll finds Thom Tillis breaking away from the pack and in a very strong position to avoid a runoff election: he's at 46% to 20% for Greg Brannon, 11% for Mark Harris... Read More
North Carolina families faced another 4.6 percent increase on employer-based health insurance premiums this year. That compares to an increase of 2.7 percent in 2013, though is a smaller increase than... Read More
