Opinion
Ticket-splitting still shapes elections
Whatever you think of it, political polarization hasn’t yet hunted split-ticket voters to extinction. They still matter — and candidates know it.
Opinion
Cooper seeking too much power
Remember that Roy Cooper won’t be in office forever. Whatever power he seizes today may be exercised tomorrow by a very different governor.
Opinion
Summer polls are flawed predictors
Swings of six percentage points or so between August and Election Day are entirely in keeping with the actual behavior of North Carolina’s electorate.
Opinion
Partisan battle extends beyond suburbs
Neither Democrats no Republicans are content simply to clasp national coattails. And both are courting voters who live in urban townhouses, rural ranch houses, and everything in between.
Opinion
Court keeps governor in his lane
Perhaps Cooper and his aides think they are “fighting fire with fire.” But North Carolinians deserve leaders who, in advancing their political agendas, don’t end up scorching the state constitution.
Opinion
Progress needed on road safety
As our state continues to grow and develop, we will need to have transportation revenue and expenditure systems that keep up with demand and produce high value for every dollar invested.
Opinion
Be prudent with state budget
After years of outpacing the national and regional averages in job creation, North Carolina's economy posted lackluster job growth in 2018.
News
McCrory passes on 9th District race; keeping options open for governor, Senate
Former Gov. Pat McCrory isn’t planning to go to Washington. Yet. The Republican announced Monday on his WBT radio program he would not seek the GOP nomination in the special election to fill the vacancy in the 9th U.S. Congressional District. He said his “fire in the belly” was in doing the daily radio show....
Opinion
Why North Carolinians are upbeat
North Carolina is now spending hundreds of millions of dollars more a year than it used to building, expanding, resurfacing, and maintaining our highways — and the results are evident.
Opinion
Both parties should prioritize savings
Prudently and methodically, the General Assembly has spent years building up financial reserves even as critics faulted lawmakers for saving dollars rather than spending them.
Opinion
Cooper retains some McCrory policies
Roy Cooper knows that winning one of the closest gubernatorial election in American history, by two-tenths of a percentage point, wasn’t exactly a compelling mandate for full-throated progressivism.
News
McCrory to NCGA: Don’t spend tainted pipeline money
Former Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, urged the General Assembly not to spend any money from a fund negotiated by his Democratic successor, Roy Cooper, and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline operators, saying the process for securing the money was tainted. In a phone interview the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 13, on WPTF-AM radio in Raleigh,...
