Once upon a time, a political party was faced with the loss of a branch of government to its political nemesis. It came following a rancorous and bitter election, which saw the sitting incumbent... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, December 20, 2016. Stop us if you’ve heard this one. The North Carolina legislature passes a bad bill and sends it to Gov. Pat McCrory. McCrory says the bill... Read More
If it were whiskey, not water, that flowed from the taps in the City of Asheville, then perhaps the state’s highest court would not have had to intervene. But whiskey is for drinking, Mark Twain... Read More
The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, gave us the Electoral College. Now the Electoral College has given us President Trump. We know he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, and we know... Read More
The devil never sleeps; for four years the Republican powers-that-be in Raleigh worked and strained to have Pat McCrory appoint their sons, cousins, friends and contributors to patronage jobs – then... Read More
The GOP continues to bring shame to the state of North Carolina. Last week, they stripped power from the newly elected Democratic governor and gave it to themselves. Yesterday, they spent $42,000 of... Read More
by Paul O'Connor, Capitol Press Association, published in The Rocky Mount Telegram, December 21, 2016. Imagine that after years of bad cell phone service you changed providers three months ago and... Read More
In 2005, in the midst of a career of traveling around the world to help set up elections in some of the most challenging places on earth – Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Lebanon, South Africa, Sudan and... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, December 22, 2016. Pardon us if we sound like a broken record, but House Bill 2 is an abominable piece of legislation and it needs to be repealed — yesterday... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, December 22, 2016. What our state GOP leaders might be singing, with apologies to James Pierpont, the creator of Jingle Bells. Dashing through news shows On a... Read More
