Presidential candidate Donald Trump in a FOX News interview said, “People are going to walk in and vote ten times maybe — who knows?” Trump couldn’t be more right. Without safeguards in our... Read More
Modern-day nominating conventions have become nothing more than ‘infomercials’ for both political parties, and this year's Democratic and Republican national party conventions were indeed that... Read More
You’ve got to give the leaders of the North Carolina legislature credit. They’re staying on message, even if that message is damaging to our country and our democracy. Donald Trump has been... Read More
When the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals torpedoed North Carolina’s controversial voter ID law last month, House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger issued a remarkably bitter... Read More
Is the full picture of our labor market captured in the official unemployment rate? The answer to that question is no — but that doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy afoot. In Washington... Read More
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence stumped for his running mate, Republican nominee Donald Trump, at a town hall meeting in Raleigh Thursday – extolling his team’s plan to repeal Obamacare, cut taxes and pay... Read More
Attention millionaires and billionaires and anyone else with extra money who wants to spend it in a meaningful way in North Carolina. Raleigh desperately needs a nonpartisan, independent think tank to... Read More
He’s testified against Dow Chemical. He’s faced down ExxonMobil. His testimony helped two farmworkers whose baby was born without arms or legs reach a settlement with Ag-Mart over pesticide... Read More
by WRAL Techwire, August 5, 2016. IBM Chair and CEO Virginia Rometty says there's been no blowback from the tech giant's decision to speak out against North Carolina's HB2. In an interview with... Read More
It’s an odd sort of logic: UNC-Chapel Hill lawyered up and made its case to the NCAA: It admitted it held phony classes that never met; it admitted football and basketball players were in the... Read More
