Several years ago, I attended a North Carolina State Bar Dinner, where Judge Allison Duncan, then active on the US Fourth Circuit, spoke on diversity and equality of opportunity. She argued that diversity of viewpoint is needed for a strong academic system and that diversity of immutable characteristics does not equate to a vigorous intellectual ecosystem. This...
While High Point University was surveying North Carolinians about their political opinions and voter preferences, the country was embroiled in a divisive battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Yet the hearing, which featured allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, probably didn’t sway public opinion much in North Carolina. “We don’t see...
Even if the statewide vote for General Assembly ends up closely divided, Democrats may well pick up seats in places such as Wake and Mecklenburg counties.
North Carolinians can easily diversify their survey diet, as we are well served by a stable of reputable pollsters who take the political temperature of our state on a regular basis.
GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Board of Commissioners’ vote to table a decision on High Point’s proposed downtown stadium casts doubt on the project’s future. “With the commissioners’ decision to delay the vote, the City Council will have to evaluate its options. So we’ll see,” High Point Mayor Bill Bencini told CJ after the Sept....
Testifying before the U.S. Senate in 2013, University of Wisconsin professor Sara Goldrick-Rab described college campuses as “glorified summer camps.” She said administrators were “engaging in an arms race to have the most impressive bells and whistles.” In North Carolina, the push to make every campus amenity bigger, better, and more impressive than the next...
Even as state lawmakers were having to subpoena Larry Hall to show up at his confirmation hearing in Raleigh, Democrats in Washington were grilling Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees.
There are really three Republican parties at the moment, which is about two and a half more than the number of effective Democratic parties.
According to the latest nationwide study by the website FiveThirtyEight.com, all of the pollsters that are most active in our state receive high marks for accuracy — either an A or a B+.
