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During her last days in office, Governor Bev Perdue inked a deal with the city of Raleigh to turn the 325-acre Dorothea Dix property, a f...

Back during  his campaign for governor, Pat McCrory talked much about his dislike for corporate welfare ("economic development incen...

In 2012, and under the management of the new Republican majority in the General Assembly, North Carolina passed S820 , which opened the stat...

Gov.-Elect Pat McCrory, in Raleigh to measure the curtains, held a press conference today and pointedly took a very different tone  about ...

Bev Perdue won one this a.m., and good for her. The NC Council of State approved her plan to lease the 306-acre Dorothea Dix Hospital tra...

The Guv has until midnight on Thursday to decide what to do about H819, the controversial Coastal Management Policies Act, wherein the new R...

Gov. Perdue's second veto of the 2012 "short session" of the NC General Assembly came on Senate Bill 820, the so-called ...

That's good news. It'll now come down to the veto-override vote in the NC House. One of the Five Goobers who voted last year to ...

You think Gov. Beverly Perdue didn't throw a clod into the Republican churn with her sudden departure from the governor's race? Be...

Sometimes we agree with Gary Pearce . Sometimes we don't .

 Coming completely out of the blue, right at 9 a.m. this morning, was the rumor of an announcement that Gov. Beverly Perdue would not be ru...

Phil Berger, President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate 1. So Gov. Bev Perdue takes the gutsy action of calling on the NC General Assembly...

Approaching 1 a.m. this morning, the new Republican leadership in the NC House rammed through an override of a Bev Perdue veto in order to ...

NC House Rep. Bill Faison made some show of announcing today that he had loaned his campaign $500,000, considerably more than he would n...

Sometimes polling gives you the willies; sometimes it gives you ideas. From PPP : One thing that's been true all year is that whenever ...

Hard to figger Rep. Bill Faison's interview with WRAL's Laura Leslie as anything less than an admission that he's dying to take...

The signature legislative ambition for the new Republican majority in the NC General Assembly? Limiting ballot access for the state's bl...

Apparently, a few dozen jaws dropped at Campbell University School of Law last Thursday when Tea Party conservative Renee Ellmers (NC-2) sai...

The spectacle of Democratic members of the NC House lying down with dogs in order to override a string of the governor's vetoes -- with ...

NC House member Bill Owens gives new meaning to the phrase "destructively befuddled." He just voted to override the governor's...