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Indebted to Jeffrey C. Billman for bringing us up to date on a new North Carolina Farm Bill, now moving through the Republican Senate in R...

1. Crack Down on the Abuse of Economic and Political Power "The extensive concentration of power in the hands of a few corporations...

"The North Carolina Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association was founded in 1936 as a non-profit trade association to promote and protect ...

We alerted you a few days ago about where Western Carolina University was headed -- into a partisan wilderness of "teaching" an i...

Gouverneur Morris Through the muggy summer of 1787, up to 55 delegates from the 13 original colonies met in the State House in Philadel...

Dwane Powell, N&O, 22 May 2015 To appreciate fully this Dwane Powell cartoon, you must understand that Sen. Bob Rucho chairs the NC ...

A $25,000 campaign contribution from Alvarez & Marsal, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm, funneled through the Republican Governor’s...

Phil Berger If you were a mortgage borrower in North Carolina who got a "write-down" reduction on your mortgage, because the l...

Chuck McGrady The "title" of a bill stamped as "introduced" in the NC House on January 4 by Rep. Chuck McGrady of He...

Governor Pat McCrory, who is totally and completely competent for leading North Carolina into the 20th Century -- suck it, 19th Century! ...

New Republican laws that went into effect yesterday seem actually designed to lose jobs in North Carolina while transferring more wealth to ...

David Horsey, LA Times

Our own dyspepsia with the Obama administration grew after January 2009 the closer to Wall Street the president cozied up. The damping dow...

The guys who had the power to give us Citizens United v. F.E.C. have struck again. They think there's entirely too much early voting ...

Frank Eaton strikes again!

The door that the 5-4 Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision just opened, courtesy of Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James , who w...

In the United States, as the Supreme Court has instructed us, money is speech, and that's certainly been true in North Carolina, especia...

The criminal investigation into Duke Energy's pollution of the Dan River will or will not uncover cronyism between the administration ...

Gov. Pat McCrory has been doing what he apparently does best ... bragging about stuff he doesn't understand and/or had nothing to do w...

The NC House yesterday gave final approval to a "local" bill that will force the city of Durham to annex a mega-development near J...