McCrae Dowless asserted his innocence of absentee ballot fraud charges. There are also credible allegations of absentee ballot fraud against others in Bladen County. Absentee ballot fraud is underreported and…
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,…
Less than an hour after John Edwards’ indictment was announced, Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan issued a statement calling for the immediate confirmation of Democrat Thomas Walker to succeed Republican…
N&R editor John Robinson noted yesterday that Mark Binker is in analysis mode when covering the Easley hearings. Binker did a pretty good job, taking special note of the former…
The attorney general’s office confirms that state investigators are playing a role in the ongoing investigation of the former governor. That news generated this press release from Senate Minority Leader…
Play the NC state lotto! It is for the children the lobbyists, the NC DOT, the junkets to Europe, the corrupt contractors, the broken mental health system, Speaker Jim Black’s…
The good news we learn from USA Today is that North Carolina’s 179 public corruption convictions from 1998 to 2007 help the state rank outside the top tier of states…
Certainly corruption knows no political party, but our state seems to have a definite tilt over the past few years as has been documented at Carolina Journal and other publications.…
The N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court ruling that would have allowed a State Fair midway vendor to sue Meg Scott Phipps and some of the other…
Last month Raleigh AP Bureau Chief Sue Wilson said it was an oversight when her bureau failed to identify Meg Scott Phipps as a Democrat when it wrote a story…
Recently, The Associated Press and The News & Observer ran stories about former N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps being released from prison but neglected to tell readers that she…
Yesterday Jon Sanders pointed out that The Associated Press couldn’t bring it self to use the word “Democrat” in its story about former NC Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps getting…