A tightening economy meant a tightening budget. As such, the $21.3 billion budget didn’t have much in it to make anybody mad.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2008 12:58 PM | Full story
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There are signs that the state may be poised to take the most significant step on the transportation front since the creation of the urban-loop-building, road-paving Highway Trust Fund in 1989.
Published: Jun. 11, 2008 4:19 PM | Full story
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Bright Beginnings, More at Four and Smart Start might well be having their intended effects. No one should be afraid to find out, to the degree possible, exactly how well each is meeting its goals.
Published: Jun. 4, 2008 9:07 AM | Full story
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Corporate donors to politicians of both parties know well that immigration reform lacking some form of amnesty will damage the economy and their bottom line.
Published: May. 28, 2008 9:08 AM | Full story
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Maybe it’s standard operating procedure for national get-out-the-vote groups to fail to read state voter-registration laws, time after time.
Published: May. 14, 2008 9:26 AM | Full story
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State taxpayers are about to find out whether North Carolina’s legislative leaders are serious about being more efficient with their money or if they are simply wasting more of it themselves.
Updated: May. 7, 2008 10:00 AM | Full story
Whoever wins the Democratic primary won’t find it easy to take out an incumbent, no matter how many Democratic powerbrokers chafe at having a Republican in the office.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2008 10:52 AM | Full story
With the primary a couple of weeks away, Perdue still maintains the big advantages in the race.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2008 3:13 PM | Full story
U.S. District Court judge might want to read up on Outer Banks history before taking another step in the dispute over four-wheeling.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2008 10:15 AM | Full story
Still, Wright’s lawyers did all they could during the legislative hearing to turn their client into the victim, another black man from Wilmington wronged by white Democrats from Raleigh.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2008 2:27 PM | Full story
The mental health buck stops at the governor's desk.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2008 2:43 PM | Full story
State Treasurer Richard Moore makes a valid point about the debates so far — they haven’t been real debates with give-and-take between the candidates.
Updated: Feb. 29, 2008 11:32 AM | Full story
From outside appearances, the theater looks like an idiotic government boondoggle.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008 12:23 PM | Full story
For the most part, we simply shrug off their old-timey tales and crank up the car when we need to run a few errands.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2008 3:17 PM | Full story
Until the agency gets its act together, it hardly deserves some kind of collective “you poor old, picked-on thing.”
Updated: Feb. 22, 2008 2:58 PM | Full story
Candidates typically aren’t taken seriously when they’ve never held any local elected office, make few public appearances and show little ability to raise the money needed to be competitive.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2008 8:41 AM | Full story
Many publicly elected officials believe they don’t have to answer questions about the public’s business.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2008 2:46 PM | Full story
It’s not clear what constitution Thomas Wright and his lawyer are reading.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2008 10:15 AM | Full story
Many things change rapidly. Right now the newspaper business is changing rapidly. And this paper, which marked its 125th year in business only a few months ago, is also undergoing major changes.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2008 10:12 AM | Full story
Do voters really want fresh faces and fresh starts in politics, or do they prefer experience and business as usual?
Updated: Feb. 1, 2008 9:44 AM | Full story
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