About half of North Carolina voters remain happy with the job President Barack Obama is doing, according to a new poll.
The Civitas Institute surveyed 600 likely voters Dec. 1-3, and found that 48 percent had a favorable opinion of Obama. That is down from earlier in the [...]
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on the nominations of two North Carolina judges for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judges Albert Diaz and Jim Wynn will appear before the committee at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
The hearing offers senators the chance to question the nominees [...]
Elaine Marshall campaign consultant, Thomas Mills, says Cal Cunningham “is in the race because Washington wants to choose who North Carolina’s nominee is going to be.”
So familiar…
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[...]By which I mean to refer to the performance of the Columbus County and Whiteville City school systems in JLF’s recent parent-friendly schools study of all North Carolina districts.
For years, we’ve been offered a variety of excuses from the education establishment for continued poor performance. One is that [...]
It was eleven o’clock just yesterday morning in the board room of the North Carolina Association of Educators’ offices in Raleigh. Twenty or so community leaders were gathered for a press conference calling for meaningful healthcare reform on a day that would include a [...]
Sixty-one days.
In sixty-one days, the filing period will begin for races including the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, the state Senate, the state House, county commissioners, and other public offices in this great state of North Carolina.
On Feb. 8, county Board of Elections, from Murphy to Manteo, will open up [...]
When you've lost newspaper editors in Elizabeth City, you've lost the heartland.
We believe BCBS has a right to be involved in the debate, but not in lobbying North Carolina residents to do its bidding. It’s an obvious conflict of interest and borders on blackmail. What’s to stop BCBS from [...]
So, so glad the city of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, the state of North Carolina, and Uncle Sam (twice, maybe another to come) bailed out the losers at GMAC. Half of the 90 person mortgage unit in South Park is now looking for work.
GMAC’s continued existence is proof [...]
The newest members of the Wake County School Board have vowed to end the school system’s policy of promoting diversity by balancing percentages of low-income students within the public schools.
Now the State Superintendent of North Carolina’s Public Schools is weighing in.
June Atkinson says diversity is a critical component of a [...]
We're not endorsing a candidate. We're endorsing a philosophy.
North Carolina needs a strong, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in 2010. I don't think any NC Democrats disagree with that assessment.
But what is the path to victory, and how do you win what looks like an uphill battle against an' [...]
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan re-emphasized to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in a phone call this week that she wants current federal investigations into public corruption in North Carolina completed.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, has told the White House that she wants U.S. Attorney George Holding, who [...]
Support for Obamacare continues to struggle in North Carolina according to our latest poll with only 40% supporting and 48% in opposition.
We’ve had the public opposed to the bill by an 8-10 point margin since September and it doesn’t seem much has changed despite all the rhetoric and debate on [...]
An national organization that promotes charter schools has given North Carolina a "D" on its charter school law.
The Center for Education Reform, based in Bethesda, Md., deducted points from North Carolina because the state limits the number of charters to 100 and does not help the schools with [...]
I got my University of Georgia Magazine yesterday and found this bit from an alumni profile of North Carolina Chamber of Commerce chairman Robert Stolz interesting (emphasis added):
Robert Stolz had been in Charlotte just a couple of weeks when a group of older men from the business community came to [...]
A new poll shows that 48 percent of North Carolina voters oppose the Democratic health care reform proposals.
The poll conducted Dec. 1-3 for the Civitas Institute found that 40 percent of voters supported the proposals while 12 percent were undecided. The numbers are similar to Civitas' October polling, which [...]
WASHINGTON — Eight states and the District of Columbia don’t have laws that specifically bar insurance companies from using domestic violence as a pre-existing condition to deny health coverage, according to a study from the National Women’s Law Center.
The states are Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, [...]
