Nonaggression pact

Voters send clear tax message

In the vast majority of contested races, North Carolinians opted for the candidate least likely to raise their taxes, or mostly likely to cut them.

Fair trade

McCrory’s difficult path to re-election

Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper has a lead of roughly 5,000 votes in his attempt to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, and Cooper was quick to claim victory Tuesday night, telling supporters, “We have won this race.” Not so fast, the governor’s team responded. “Currently, there are tens of thousands of outstanding absentee, military,...

Getting ahead of ourselves?

On the ‘media’: Clear the clutter with a discerning eye

On one point, President-elect Donald Trump has it right. Reporters, as he often intimated throughout his successful campaign, are biased. But not in the ways you may think. Or in ways in which politicians and pundits have led you to believe are true. News organizations lean one way or the other because they are a...