It's beginning to feel a lot like session
It's beginning to feel a lot like – um, Jones Street – on Jones Street. It's still about two months before the mid-January start of the 2015-16 legislative session, but you wouldn't know it with... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Jim Leutze mad as hell and wants his state back
I am mad as hell and I want my state back.” Former UNC-Wilmington Chancellor Jim Leutze wanted to use this phrase as the title for his new book about modern North Carolina history and politics... Read More
The K-12 roots of the UNC scandal
Kenneth Wainstein’s report, “Investigation of Irregular Classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” detailed a long... Read More
Cloud Cuckoo land
President Obama set out to restore his political fortunes by going to China – and announcing a new climate change agreement. Then, still intent on repairing his fortunes, he traveled on to... Read More
Democrats need a leader
Since the election tsunami, Democrats have been scouring the rubble for answers. Liberals say the party needs to take on Wall Street. Moderates say retake the middle. Labor says raise the minimum wage... Read More
McCrory's culture of corruption, Part II
It’s getting hard to keep up with all the conflicts of interest inside the McCrory Administration. The latest troubling news comes in an Associated Press story revealing that McCrory’s... Read More
More political money, secrecy threaten integrity of courts
The TV ad in the N.C. Supreme Court campaign was a pleasant surprise. When Justice For All NC, an independent expenditure political organization, bought $400,000 of broadcast time in the days before... Read More
In the wake of NC election results, mourning but no surrender
by Gene Nichol, UNC professor of Law, published in News and Observer, November 18, 2014. I’ve been in mourning since the election. I knew of the massive barriers of gerrymandering and the challenges... Read More
Drubbing of Democrats shows 'extreme' GOP really mainstream
Oops, they did it again. Those “extreme” North Carolina Republicans won another election. In 2010, they took control of the legislature for the first time in a century. In 2012, they secured super... Read More
Prospects to expand Medicaid in 2015 dim for NC
Any plan Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration presents for expanding Medicaid would have a tough time getting through the state legislature. A key House member said Tuesday it would probably be... Read More
