Senate District 41 (Northern and western Mecklenburg County). • Jeffrey Tarte, Republican. (Three-term incumbent). Occupation: Founder and chairman emeritus of Applied Revenue Analytics, a multimillion-dollar consulting firm. Education: University of Illinois, economics degree. Attended executive education courses at Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Career Highlights: Former partner,...
Tea Party protests caused a conservative policy shift, both directly as pressure on lawmakers and through the selection of more-conservative politicians in subsequent elections.
RALEIGH — It was anything but quiet Tuesday morning at the North Carolina General Assembly. The House Finance Committee had planned to approve that body’s tax plan during an early morning meeting. A news conference was scheduled at 11 a.m. to unveil the House finance package. The tax plan survived. But the day’s business was disturbed...
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper’s first three picks for the State Board of Education are unlikely to shake up the education establishment, a top conservative education analyst says. Newcomers Sandra Byrd and John Buxton are underwhelming picks by Cooper, said Terry Stoops, vice president of research and education studies at the John Locke Foundation. “Cooper’s...
Regardless of your party or political philosophy, it ought not to concern you if willing members of a campus community, including willing donors, produce academic work with which you have disagreements.
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina law school has no business participating in one-sided political advocacy or entering lawsuits representing only left-leaning clients, several members of the UNC Board of Governors say. The staff of the law school’s Center for Civil Rights counters that it offers a voice for progressive causes not provided by...
Richard Burr has benefitted from good timing throughout his political career. His streak appears to be intact going into 2016.
RALEIGH — North Carolina is a right-to-work state, but that hasn’t stopped labor unions from trying to find new ways to boost their membership. Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of Capital Associated Industries, addressed the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society in 2014 on the topic “Labor Unions Battle for Members in North Carolina: Historical and Recent Strategies.” Clarke also discussed unions with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Those who would like to blame North Carolina’s Republican officials are ignoring national education school enrollment trends.
RALEIGH — Former Person County Commissioner Larry Yarborough is a small business owner highlighting the need for jobs in his bid to win a seat as a Republican candidate in heavily Democratic House District 2. He faces two-term Democratic Person County Commissioner Ray Jeffers in the race to succeed Democratic state Rep. Winkie Wilkins, who is retiring.
If Republicans assume they are riding an inevitable wave to electoral triumph in 2014, they are fooling themselves.
