While keeping tax rates low on high-income earners may seem like sacrificing tax revenue in the short term, it makes sense over the long term.
Federal lawmakers take action in the wake of Iryna Zaruska's murder.
President Donald Trump has named North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, to the National Governors Association’s Council of Governors. Stein will co-chair the council with Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
A federal agency under the Biden Administration walked back comments it made earlier in the week that it was considering a ban on gas stoves in new construction or as a replacement product, citing concerns that the appliances may cause a rise in respiratory illnesses. Richard Trumka Jr, a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner, told Bloomberg.com on...
s chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper considers the 2022 election a good year for Democrat governors across the country. While in his own state his party suffered a net loss in the state legislature, the U.S. Senate seat, and all the statewide judicial races, nationally the Democrat organization he leads “avoided a net loss and picked up one governorship,” in November.
Over the weekend, Gov. Roy Cooper appeared on a podcast analyzing the results of the 2022 midterm election, saying that President Joe Biden should run for re-election, Florida’s Ron DeSantis is “divisive,” and North Carolinians made a mistake in voting for Donald Trump.
Oddsmakers favor Republican Rep. Ted Budd winning North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race over his Democratic opponent Cheri Beasley in a landslide in Tuesday’s General Election.
Control of the U.S. Congress is the grand prize in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 8. There seems to be little doubt that Republicans will take the U.S. House. The Senate is much more competitive, with Nate Silver at Politico recently calling control for the body a coin flip. Yet, it’s increasingly likely Republicans...
Gov. Roy Cooper has moved farther left on many issues since he began running for national office a decade ago.
Our response to the Omicron variant can go a couple of ways. We can remain calm and let this latest strain run its course. Or, as Democrats and mainstream media are wont to do, we can overreact and spread fear. I’d like to think Americans, in general, have had enough, and that they’ll hold politicians...
At each of North Carolina’s recent public hearings on redistricting, some individuals and public policy groups spoke of their desire for an independent redistricting commission, a citizen’s redistricting commission, or some variation thereof. Looking at the current massive failures of such efforts in other states, the General Assembly has wisely concluded redistricting is a legislative...
