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Opinion

The political odyssey of Mark Walker

In the tumultuous landscape of American politics, few stories encapsulate the complexities of ambition, loyalty, and democracy quite like that of former Congressman Mark Walker, a Triad-area Republican who just declined to pursue a runoff in the NC-6 congressional race. Walker’s political odyssey began in 2014, when he emerged as a dark-horse candidate in North...

Algenon Cash
Opinion

The voter ID boogeyman

It all started over a decade ago. The year was 2013, and North Carolina inaugurated its first Republican governor in decades. He would work alongside a majority-Republican state legislature, the first double Republican leadership in over a century, after nearly 150 years of domination by Democrats. Soon thereafter, reports started to emerge, murmurs that within...

Jeff Moore
Opinion

Lt. governor race draws fourteen candidates

Most of the executive-branch offices comprising North Carolina’s Council of State are either open seats in 2024 or will feature highly competitive races in both the primary and general elections. But none has attracted as many candidates as lieutenant governor. GOP incumbent Mark Robinson is running for governor. Fourteen North Carolinians want to succeed him...

John Hood