With the 2004 political wagon train now officially underway, here's what the smart political scouts will be looking out for.
Is it the economy, or is it stupidity? That’s what North Carolina's citizens want to know after the General Assembly recently approved a package of “incentives” for corporations that Gov. Mike Easley said would boost the state’s economy.
Journalism is said to be the “first draft of history.” Unfortunately, few bother to read the second or third drafts, when the truth is more likely to emerge.
Jane S. Shaw reviews Jack M. Hollander's The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy, University of California Press; 2003; 237 pp.
Just in time for the New Year, another shoe has dropped in the long-running story about law-enforcement corruption in Western NC. As usual, the issues involved are cloudy.
Contrary to what many local politicians predicted, the Bush tax cuts of 2003 appear to have helped, not hurt, state budgets by boosting growth. But North Carolina still lags.
A Franklin County judge has rendered a decision likely to impact legislative, gubernatorial, and even presidential politics in 2004. And the judicial process just started.
More than a decade ago, the state faced a prison-capacity crisis. After major changes and expenditures, the issue remains.
What could be more festive this Christmas than to curl up in front of the computer screen, pointing and clicking your way across an assortment of colorful political items?
Triangle Congressman David Price and others are rapping the Bush administration for not pushing through another extension of unemployment benefits. This is revealing.
That dark cloud hovering over the state legislature in Raleigh might be signs of a gathering political storm. Or maybe it's a flock of federal fowl.
