Last night, the Raleigh News & Observer revealed that the UNC Presidential Search Committee’s top candidate for the next system president is former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings... Read More
North Carolina features “undoubtedly the premier governor’s race of the country” for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval... Read More
Today’s emergency meeting of the UNC Board of Governors, where a possible successor to outgoing president Tom Ross will be interviewed, has been called an attempt to bypass a law enacted by the... Read More
The word “consistency” suggests stability, predictability, normalcy. It implies that we can move on and not worry. When the State of North Carolina announced our 2014 infant mortality data this... Read More
Thirty hours after Roy Cooper’s announcement and just as the Democratic presidential debate was ending, Deborah Ross announced for US Senate. If she and Cooper do as well the rest of the way as... Read More
One of the biggest stories of the 2015 General Assembly is what lawmakers didn’t do and the people they didn’t help. They again declined to follow the lead of 30 other states and the District of... Read More
by Thomas Mills, Politics NC, October 15, 2015. We have a Senate race in North Carolina. Or at least we might. Deborah Ross’ entry into the contestgives Democrats a candidate who is smart... Read More
Do you want to know how often your state House and Senate members voted with the majority of others in their chamber in the 2015 session? Or how often they voted the opposite way of the outcome of... Read More
A reorganization at the Department of Public Safety appears to have claimed the job held by the wife of a chief budget writer. DPS Secretary Frank Perry issued a memo Monday announcing that he was... Read More
