A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s new voter identification requirement and other recent election law changes. Rick Henderson assesses the significance of the judge’s ruling for the next edition…
The proposed eminent domain amendment to the N.C. Constitution cleared its final hurdle in the state House Tuesday, passing that chamber by a 113-5 vote. If approved by the Senate…
Beginneth an article in the local daily with a headline featuring the decision to award the Evergreen paper mill state funds so it can afford to comply with new EPA…
Wow. From the data on this chart alone, it looks like North Carolina has the second harshest ballot access requirements in the US, and that’s after Skip Stam’s reformations. Only…
You can’t make this up: So it seems that the Catawba Indian Nation wants to build a casino. These days, that is pretty much what Indian tribes do. And yes,…
Feeling testy about tax reform? Want to bitch about the budget? Seeing red over regulations? Salivating over school choice? Don’t just sit there. Contact your legislator. Let them know how…
Legislators in the NC House have discussed how to draft legislation to ban welfare recipients or those in bankruptcy from purchasing a lottery ticket. In theory this is a great…
No LSD for now. As described before, this bill sets up a scheme that creates a non-profit entity under the Biotech Center that makes loans to biotech start up companies…
House Bill 530 is heard in the House Finance Committee for a fuller discussion than it had last week. It will be considered with a recommendation to either concur or…
Even though House Bill 1268 has 80 co-sponsors (of 120 members), the House has never taken a vote on it and after last night, it looks like it won’t, at…
With limited additional comments – just a word or two about transparency from Minority Leader Skip Stam R – Wake, the House has the final and 3rd Reading vote on…
Beginning at 8:00 tonight, a few additional amendments and a lot of debate and comments on the budget continue for over 3 1/2 hours.They keep calling the budget the restoration…