Reducing the number of early voting days may be debated in this year’s General Assembly session. Reducing early voting days would likely have little effect on turnout. A possible compromise…
A bill in the General Assembly would reduce the maximum number of early voting days in North Carolina from 17 to eight. Reducing early voting has little to no impact…
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon ponders national indifference to North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race. Most Americans have never heard of Cheri Beasley or her GOP opponent, Rep. Ted…
Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons). Districts and…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction released estimates for the distribution of $100 million in lottery funds for school facilities. Charter schools are not entitled to lottery funds for this…
Greensboro News & Record passes along this Cook Political Report post counting the 13th Congressional District race between incumbent Rep. Ted Budd and challenger Kathy Manning “maybe the biggest culture…
Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?) Readers, what’s my weakness? (financial data published by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction!)
The mainstream media and pundits on both sides of the aisle focus an extraordinary amount of time and energy examining public school funding. It is not surprising that they do.…
• Down to the wire: Chief Justice of the U.S. John Roberts says the plaintiffs suing the state over its congressional maps must file a response by Tuesday explaining why the order…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court’s ruling against Duke Energy in an easement case pitting Duke against a Huntersville homeowner. Appellate…
In three out of four cases, North Carolina voters said no to hiking the local sales tax. Three of the four referendums increasing local sales taxes by 0.25 percent failed.…
*JLF president John Hood says “arguing that Thom Tillis wasn’t conservative enough was a doomed effort”; *July 15th runoff between 6th District congressional candidates Phil Berger Jr. and Mark Walker;…