Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal: GREENSBORO — Community leaders, school choice advocates, and religious leaders gathered at Next Generation Academy on Monday, April 15, in support of a bill…
A Wallace couple is heading to federal prison after conviction on charges involving $12 million in tax refund fraud. Rick Henderson discusses the fraud case’s resolution during the next edition…
Just came across a recent McClatchy story on she who is in Congress and has a most extensive collection of fashionable hats and whether any Charlotte Democrats might challenge her…
View in your browser. Welcome At the beginning of the week, I had planned to write a summary of this week’s Leandro hearing. It turned out to be a much…
Volvo’s recent decision to site a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina has helped spur increased interest in the future of targeted tax incentives in North Carolina. Roy Cordato makes…
Charter school advocates raised concerns during a morning news conference about N.C. state budget provisions and other measures targeting charters’ financial accountability. The advocates say the recent changes could have…
Toward the end of N&R’s front-pager analyzing Sen. Trudy Wade’s plan to restructure the Greensboro City Council —which concludes that “four of the new districts proposed under Wade’s Senate Bill…
Mayor Bernita Sims — with a legal cloud still hovering —- is out; state Rep. Marcus Brandon is in. Brandon had previously said he would not run for High Point…
The Common Core debate is far from over. Thursday afternoon the House Education Committee took up Senate Bill 812, Maintain State Authority Over State Standards, aka the Common Core Bill.…
• The debate over debates continues between Democratic Senate incumbent Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis. Tillis says he has accepted invitations from seven groups and…
• A Charlotte-based Washington Post blogger points out that the scandal brewing at Veterans Administration medical facilities (including the hospital in Durham) has added a national issue with local importance…
[Updated] The expected, unexpected, and the just plain sad. Lots of the sad, really. • Thom Tillis won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. So yes, money and perceived electability…