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  Renewable energy is a growing industry in North Carolina’s economy. The state has over 7,300 jobs in the solar sector and ranks fifth in t...

  A provision tucked into the proposed budget passed by the North Carolina House of Representatives last week would apply only to Buncombe a...

The following cry for help from Asheville was sent on Tuesday. Perhaps the situation is less dire today, though only marginally probably.  I...

  Julie Mayfield I paid much attention to Julie Mayfield in 2019. She was one of the Democrats who was running for Terry Van Duyn's NC ...

NC Senator Terry Van Duyn is not running again in 2020 for her Senate seat (District 49) because she's running for Lieutenant Governor....

Barry Yeoman Very grateful to Barry Yeoman for his political history of what led up to Pat McCrory's "bathroom bill," HB2...

They adjourned sine die last night. Here's what they didn't do: 1. They didn't redistrict city commish races in Asheville, ...

Tom Apodaca, the powerful Republican senator in Raleigh representing Buncombe, Henderson, and Transylvania counties, has proposed a bill i...

This morning Justice Chris Dillon of the NC Court of Appeals issued a three-judge panel's decision in the case about the seizure of Ash...

Like Boone, only different. The wealth redistribution scheme currently moving in the North Carolina General Assembly will punish the city...

It is no secret that the Republican power-base in North Carolina in mainly rural. The cities generally vote Democratic, and the Republican...

Long, in-depth article published yesterday in the Asheville Citizen-Times delves into the politics of the minimum wage in North Carolina....

Yesterday Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr. struck down the 2013 General Assembly law that would have transferred Ashevil...

You be the judge . This could supply a full season's scenario for "The House of Cards." You've got a dewy-eyed and r...

The District 3 County Commissioner race in Buncombe County is an all-Republican circus, with two extremely conservative challengers (until y...

Don Yelton We're told that the segment filmed recently in Asheville by "The Daily Show" regular Aasif Mandvi  and focusin...

Governor Pat McCrory is now sneaking into North Carolina cities in order to avoid coming face-to-face with citizens who have a problem wit...

The scene yesterday in Pack Square, Asheville, for the rally against the North Carolina General Assembly and its recent actions RE voting ...

We hear about the new Republican majority in the General Assembly and what they did to Asheville's water system, and we hear about how...

Living up to his growing reputation as a finger-in-the-wind sort of guy, Gov. McCrory announced that he would not sign the Asheville wate...