Senate Redistricting Committee to Consider Competitive Senate Remedial Map
The Senate Redistricting Committee will consider a competitive remedial Senate map during its meeting on February 16, 2022.
Politics
Freedom. U.S. dips to record low in global rankings
The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 “Index of Economic Freedom” puts the United States at a record low ranking, falling from 20th in 2021 to 25th this year out of 177 countries ranked.
OPINION: Voters and not the election board should decide on Madison Cawthorn
Being giddy about the possibility of barring Madison Cawthorn’s attempt to return to Congress is not a good reason to do it. Unfortunately, canceling somebody, often merely for speech, is an increasingly common tactic in today’s raucous political climate.
Sports betting legislation will probably make a comeback in 2022
A bill that would legalize mobile sports betting in North Carolina is likely to see significant consideration in the House during the abbreviated spring legislative session.
State Supreme Court spells out details of redistricting ruling
Ten days after throwing out North Carolina's newly drawn congressional and legislative election maps, the state Supreme Court has produced its formal opinion in the case.
State Supreme Court debates future of voter ID, tax cap amendments
The fate of two approved amendments to North Carolina's Constitution now sits in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The court spent an hour Monday morning questioning lawyers who argued for and against the amendments.
Our state remains a battleground
North Carolina has been politically competitive for a long time. It will remain so for the foreseeable future, although the structure and focal points of that political competition have always been subject to change.
UNC would gain by losing
This online chat between admissions officers reflects poorly on the culture and policies of the university employing them. It shows them engaging in crude racial classification.
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore urges Governor: End student masking policies
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore sent a letter to Governor Roy Cooper asking to end the policies that have disrupted classrooms and hindered student achievement and repeal the guidelines that force healthy kids to stay home and effectively mandate masks in schools, as most governors across the country finally do the same.
Democrats shore up dominance on N.C. State Board of Education
Of the 11 members on the N.C. State Board of Education, four are Republican appointees. With a recent resignation, that number dips to just three.
OPINION: Reading the redistricting tea leaves
Since the Friday night massacre, in which a partisan Democrat state Supreme Court threw out GOP-enacted congressional and legislative districts, legislators and political observers have been trying to figure out what happens next and what it means for the General Assembly as they return to Raleigh next week to revise maps.
Three N.C. congressmen among 38 seeking cognitive test from Biden
Three N.C. congressmen have joined 35 Republican colleagues signing on to a letter asking President Biden to take a cognitive test.