Last spring, Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, filed a bill that would establish new judicial and prosecutorial districts throughout the state and specify the number of judges and prosecutors for each While House Bill 717 didn’t come to a vote during the regular session, Burr has indicated he would try to have it considered during this week’s session....
A new poll suggests that if the presidential election of 2016 were restaged in North Carolina, Trump would probably still win the state.
The N.C. Supreme Court handed down twice as many 4-3 decisions Friday as it had during the rest of the year. Yet it would be a mistake to jump to the conclusion that the 4-3 splits show signs of a new partisan divide within the state’s highest court. Just one of the four new 4-3...
North Carolina's 4.5 percent growth rate in median household income was the 4th-highest in the country last year, and far above the 2.4 percent national average.
Newspapers refuse to die. On a superficial level, that’s a good thing. For as long as I can remember, newspaper publishers, editors, and the large corporations that pull the proverbial strings have made innumerable and mostly ill-fated attempts to revive an industry and business plan that began cracking around the edges some 30 years ago....
