• Debategate, round two? Attorney General Roy Cooper and former state Rep. Deborah Ross of Wake County, the Democratic Party’s presumed front-runners for governor and U.S. senate, respectively, still have…
• Debate day! Eleven Republican presidential contenders will face off at 8 p.m. at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. CNN will air the debate, and the network offers a…
• Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper has made no formal announcement, but he sure looks like a 2016 rival to Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. Cooper has posted an online petition…
The first question is who will run on the Democratic side. The issue Democrats face is that they have no obvious candidate. That said, John Wynne of Carolina Strategic Analysis…
Here’s more information about the public announcement made today in Charlotte: A new coalition is being created to take on the challenge of ending gerrymandering in North Carolina. The coalition,…
Former Charlotte mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Vinroot and former Raleigh mayor (and possible future Democratic gubernatorial candidate) Charles Meeker join together at noon today in the Queen City.…
• Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd, gets ad support from a group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg advocating immigration reform. Americans for a Conservative Direction is running this and similar…
It’s been nearly a week since the Triangle Business Journal reported that The Mint, a taxpayer subsidized eatery in downtown Raleigh, will close. And we are still waiting for the…
Triangle Business Journal reports that The Mint – a heavily subsidized and seldom patronized restaurant in downtown Raleigh – will close. The white tablecloth establishment opened in January 2008. Mayor…
N.C. Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, is no stranger to poor polling numbers. In December, the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling found that Faison was even less popular among Democrats than…
What exactly is Raleigh Mayor-Elect Nancy McFarlane “working” on to help the downtown Raleigh protesters? Are public resources, staff time, or materials being used for this? Will the protesters pay…
View in your browser. Why is almost every major city in the nation infatuated with the Big Three: sports stadiums, convention centers and trains? Charlotte has all three, and so…