Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal: The State Board of Elections ousted Executive Director Kim Strach Monday, May 13, on a party line vote, naming Karen Brinson Bell of Charleston,…
With the latest reports on retirements of Sen Fletcher Hartsell (CJ readers may remember his involvement with the Alcoa/Yadkin River Trust controversey) and now Sen. Dan Soucek (CJ readers know…
• It looks as if U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd District, may have three high-profile primary challengers. Former Chatham County GOP chairman Jim Duncan already has filed for the seat;…
Here is a press release that was sent out this morning from the NC Senate President Pro Tempore’s office: Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) on Tuesday announced…
When is an election not really an election? When you can change it on a whim. Imagine if you would that, unhappy with some decisions made by a majority on…
Happy Veterans’ Day! How big of a deal is the military in North Carolina? Well, it’s is a pretty big deal. North Carolina has the 3rd largest military population in…
Big Energy (the “morally correct” Big Energy, that is, the one that is allowed to raise rates on the poor captured ratepayers and engage in the worst of cronyism without…
Today both the Senate and the House voted on the final reading for the Budget that determines state funding for fiscal years 2013 – 2015. The votes were as expected,…
View in your browser. Welcome Last week, Wake County Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones declared that the chairman of the State Board of Education (SBE) has unilateral authority to…
Senator Bob Rucho and Senator Fletcher Hartsell filed an Adjournment Sine Die Resolution last Thursday calling for the 2011-12 General Assembly to adjourn on Tuesday, June 19. That leaves ten…
The Senate gave final approval to the marriage amendment in a party line 30-16 vote this afternoon (as Daren has already mentioned below). Following the House vote yesterday, that means…
Way back in summer 2010, the General Assembly dallied with a measure which would have gotten North Carolina into the biotech venture capital biz. You know, biotech venture capital being…