Donald Trump’s visit to New Hanover County, specifically the Wilmington International Airport, highlights the importance of the “Port City” and its home county, one of two North Carolina counties that embraced Trump in 2016 and rejected him in 2020. New Hanover has become one of the most purple counties in North Carolina, and the largest...
North Carolina media is one of Cooper’s biggest cheerleaders, yet it’s unlikely the national media will have the same level of adoration for Cooper.
The House completed the snub of Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto with a 73-44 override vote, as a single Democrat, outgoing Wake County Rep. Duane Hall, joined a unified Republican caucus. The House vote on the Republican-written $23.9 billion budget Tuesday, June 12, followed the Senate’s June 7 override. A veto override requires a three-fifths...
What would a February-to-November general election campaign for president look and feel like? That may not be a speculative issue for long.
If there was any doubt that the mainstream media is in the tank for Democrats, the coverage of the recent cloture vote on the various non-binding Iraq resolutions in the Senate certainly erased it.
U.S. Sen. Josiah Bailey of North Carolina (1930-1936) considered FDR's New Deal program harmful to the nation.
U.S. Sen. Josiah Bailey of North Carolina (1930-1936) considered FDR's New Deal program harmful to the nation.
Gov. Mike Easley has a couple of chances to make good on his rhetoric of fiscal conservatism. Lobbyists are resisting Medicaid reform while lawmakers want to give state-owned land away.
Another angle on Gen. Wesley Clark's presidential announcement this week is that the Clintons, who were apparently behind it, care little about their own party.
After a relatively calm August, September is turning out to be a stormy month. Oh, and then there's that hurricane.
Political power often relies on credibility, which is why both Richard Morgan and a top Democratic political aide lost a little power last week.
