The former state auditor of North Carolina, Beth Wood, never lost an election. She clinched the Democratic primary for the elected office in 2008, defeated a Republican incumbent that fall, and then won reelection in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Wood never lost an election — but she did lose her job, thanks to a series...
The commissioner of labor is one of 10 independently elected members of the Council of State, which constitutes the executive branch of North Carolina’s government. Republican Josh Dobson, a former state legislator, is vacating the office after a single four-year term. His predecessor was Republican Cherie Berry, also a former member of the North Carolina...
Beth Wood’s swan song as North Carolina’s State Auditor came to an end Friday with her pleading guilty in Wake County Superior Court to two misdemeanor counts of misusing her state-owned vehicle.
A bustling crowd of candidate hopefuls stood in line at the Gov. James G. Martin Building at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh Monday as candidate filing got underway for the 2024 election cycle in North Carolina.
Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Jessica Holmes, former chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, as interim North Carolina State Auditor. Holmes will serve the remainder of outgoing State Auditor Beth Wood’s term, which ends on Dec. 31, 2024.
Candidates for North Carolina’s labor commissioner were civil and substantive during a recent debate, reflecting both campaigns’ recognition that voters are exhausted by smashmouth politics.
Reopening the economy during COVID-19 is a hotly contested issue in the race for N.C. Commissioner of Labor. The two candidates — Republican state Rep. Josh Dobson, R-McDowell, and Democratic county commissioner Jessica Holmes — would take drastically different approaches to that, and labor issues generally. Dobson supports North Carolina’s right-to-work laws, deregulation, and economic...
