Opinion
U.S. House speaker contest reminds long-time N.C. politicos of 2003
The ongoing battle for the U.S. House's top job prompts some N.C. political observers to look back 20n years.
News
Interview: Decker Discusses His Fall
RALEIGH — Rep. Michael Decker knew he was doing wrong, but he did it anyway because “it got easy to lie,” he said in an exclusive interview with Carolina Journal.
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Decker Job Process Questionable
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley, Cultural Resources Secretary Libba Evans, or their designees apparently violated state law in 2005 when they honored former House Speaker Jim Black’s request to provide a job for former Rep. Michael Decker.
Opinion
The Heroic Jim Jeffords
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.
