Opinion
An Inconvenient Fiction on Elections
Removing party labels from judicial elections has not removed partisan competition for seats on North Carolina's court benches.
Opinion
On the Carolina Election Results
Contrary to predictions, Carolina voters -- particularly Republicans -- were quite willing to turn out legislative incumbents in the primary elections held last week.
Opinion
No. 708: Arts on a Lark and Official Malarkey
The party’s over, now it’s time to face the real music. I’m referring to the boozers at the N.C. Museum of Art who threw a party during museum operating hours for a departing colleague. Troubling by itself, the festivity, more importantly, poignantly epitomizes what’s wrong with state government today: The in-crowd parties while taxpayers struggle to foot the bill for ever-growing state spending.
