A group of retired four-star generals and admirals, the speaker of Puerto Rico’s state House, a U.S. senator who once attacked the John Locke Foundation on the Senate floor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are among the parties arguing against N.C. lawmakers in a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court case. The court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 7.
A Wake County Superior Court Judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that was filed against the state’s election redistricting process. The suit alleged that the General Assembly violated previous court precedents governing how election maps should be drawn. Judge Graham Shirley dismissed the suit, stressing that the ruling was not a judgment on the maps themselves....
Reporters end up being stenographers for left-wing interest groups when they fail to question dubious premises.
Don’t you hate it when you read a story in a newspaper or online, or watch a news report on TV, and the reporter seems to have completely missed the essential question? I know I do. It happens more than you think. Sometimes it’s a product of lack of time, in the case of a...
When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California, his experience in Hollywood did not serve him well.
RALEIGH — Backers of third parties hope to cash in on a growing frustration with the political establishment. The Tea Party demonstrations that started last year, the growth of unaffiliated voters, and the expansion of social networking to spur political activism has fueled optimism from minority parties.
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RALEIGH — On Jan. 7, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed sweeping school reform legislation that many observers are heralding as historic and bold, providing parents a greater voice not only in choosing a school that best serves their children but also in petitioning school boards to fix persistently failing schools.
RALEIGH — Congress is finalizing a bill that would expand Medicaid — the government health program for the poor. The federal government and the states share the costs of Medicaid, so any new obligation eventually would be borne, at least in part, by state taxpayers. And so far, Gov. Bev Perdue has neither opposed the legislation nor stated any strong objections to the financial toll the bills being negotiated in Washington would take on North Carolina residents.
RALEIGH — While other states scramble to drop restrictions on charter schools, toughen standards, and adopt new measures of teacher and principal effectiveness to improve their chances of winning a share of the pot, North Carolina’s top education leaders are content to stand pat with the hand the state now holds.
RALEIGH — Michael Munger, chairman of the Political Science Department at Duke University, and a Libertarian running for governor of North Carolina in 2008, discusses third parties with Carolina Journal Radio’s Mitch Kokai. (Go to http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
