By comparison to Rep. Michael Decker, whose switch to the Democrats last week created a 60-60 NC House, Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords is a paragon of political and civic virtue.
Longtime State Treasurer Harlan Boyles died Thursday. His life taught many lessons about how to serve, how to lead, and even how to disagree.
In March a group of about 50 women's rights activists from the North Carolina mountains plans to present state legislators with a "new" agenda on the needs of women in the state.
A Republican will likely be elected Speaker of the NC House next week, but there are at least three scenarios with three different members ending up at the top of the political heap.
Yesterday it was time to slam public opinion surveys for their often shallow and useless conclusions. Today, Gallup’s polling deserves praise for illuminating the abortion debate.
Polls can have their uses, but the Charlotte Observer's recent look at the issue of burying overhead power lines doesn't make the cut. Respondents weren't told how futile the effort would be.
There are lots of “helpful” suggestions about improving North Carolina politics, such as unconstitutional campaign reforms or loosening the voters’ leash on politicians. But there’s a more fundamental problem.
The latest campus outrage is unfortunately in our own backyard, as Duke University makes plan to host a lecture on March 3 by a terrorist who plotted to blow up government buildings and who defends violent protest of U.S. Policy.
Before the Council of State's vote on North Carolina State University’s proposed hotel and conference center, university officials asked and received a delay in the vote. Chancellor Mary Anne Fox told media that she requested the delay not because university officials were counting votes, but because they had not done enough to answer council members’ questions, especially over the issue of private financing of the project.
As thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen deploy from North Carolina bases to the Gulf region in preparation for war, other North Carolinians are mobilizing to protest it. How will most residents react to a Bush administration military action?
Boneheaded feminists continually employ confusion and contradiction to further their left-wing agenda.
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