Instead of focusing primarily on what Donald Trump did, consider the possibility that the outcome may be due more to what his opponents did or didn’t do.
A 2019 state law dictates that an annual payment to the state from Smithfield Foods should support environmental enhancements in public schools.
In polling averages, the former president leads by five to six points. Meanwhile, Stein and Robinson are running neck-and-neck.
A lawsuit challenging state Attorney General Josh Stein’s ability to pull millions of dollars out of North Carolina’s treasury for his grant priorities could head to a Wake County courtroom in June. The money is connected to a multimillion-dollar deal former Attorney General Mike Easley negotiated with Smithfield Foods in 2000.
With my longtime friend Andy Wells, a former state senator, joining the Republican primary field for governor and Supreme Court Justice Mike Morgan publicly considering a run for the Democratic nomination, now seems like an opportune time to answer a frequently voiced question. Why in the world would anyone want to be governor of North...
There was a time — 20 years ago — when leading N.C. Democrats and Republicans agreed on the need for government spending restraint.
I’ve been writing a newspaper column since 1986. During that time, I’ve had occasion to criticize the policies of six North Carolina governors: Jim Martin, Jim Hunt, Mike Easley, Beverly Perdue, Pat McCrory, and Roy Cooper. None has seen fit to have me flogged. An ancestor of mine, William Pendley, wasn’t so lucky. Some years...
Because I am an inveterate optimist who likes to think the best of other folks, I’m going to assume for the sake of the following argument that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and former governors Jim Hunt, Mike Easley, and Bev Perdue sometimes sign documents they’ve not closely read. I make that assumption because they...
Gov. Roy Cooper and nine other Southern Democrat governors, present and past, signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief in support of UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard in a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding their “race-conscious admissions” policies. Four of the 10 signers were from N.C., and included former Govs. Mike Easley, Jim Hunt, and Bev Perdue.
If a jurisdiction is closely divided, ticket-splitting need not be widespread to be decisive. After all, North Carolina went for both Donald Trump and Roy Cooper in 2020.
The number of Republican-controlled county commissions jumped from 56 to 61 this year. However, slightly more than half North Carolinians now live in counties with Democratic boards.
