Here we go again. The folks running the state lottery want everybody to know that they can sell more tickets and rake in millions of more dollars from the poorest areas of the state if they can spend... Read More
Absurd special session on bathrooms still possible It turns out there might be a special session of the General Assembly to decide public bathroom policy in Charlotte after all. House Speaker Tim... Read More
The folks running the Connect NC bond campaign have to be getting a little nervous these days, now less than two weeks away from voters deciding if the state should borrow $2 billion for much-needed... Read More
The demagogues in Raleigh are now seriously considering a special session of the General Assembly to overturn the nondiscrimination ordinance passed by the Charlotte City Council that provides basic... Read More
This is what politics in North Carolina has come to 16 years into the 21st century. The state’s largest city follows the lead of hundreds of other local governments across the country and adopts a... Read More
Almost lost last week in Raleigh amid all the partisan gerrymandering drama was a decision by a three-judge panel in North Carolina that may have as much impact on the future of the state as the... Read More
There has been high political drama in Raleigh this week as state House and Senate leaders rushed to put new congressional district maps together after a three-judge federal panel ruled the current... Read More
At one elementary school in the North Carolina mountains two-thirds of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. That would make you think that the school would not fare well on the state’s A... Read More
One of the least covered important stories in education in North Carolina is the state’s current experiment with two virtual charter schools run by out of state for-profit companies, one of which is... Read More
Listen to many of the conservative pundits around the country and in North Carolina these days and you’d think Donald Trump appeared out of nowhere to storm to the front of the Republican... Read More
