November 21, 2009
RALEIGH — The deal Joshua Lang had been offered on a home in Snow Camp looked like an opportunity to start fresh in a new house with his soon-to-be second wife and a second child on the way. Except the home he ended up buying from Southern Showcase...
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November 18, 2009
RALEIGH — Elected Republican leaders, state party officials and activists are debating a proposal that would close the party’s primaries to all but registered members of the GOP.
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November 17, 2009
JP Looney’s Sports Bar drew a $7,000 fine by the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission in connection with an underage drinking violation.
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As the 2010 campaign season descends upon us, this column will stray from policy into politics from time to time. And right at the top of the Tar Heel ticket next year will be the race for U.S. Senate. The incumbent is Richard Burr , a Winston-Salem Repub...
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November 15, 2009
RALEIGH — There’s no need to wonder where the collard greens or tomatoes came from that are on sale at Whitaker Farms’ stall at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.
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November 13, 2009
RALEIGH — Rep. Laura Wiley said Friday she will not run for re-election to her High Point-based state House seat.
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November 10, 2009
When Congress voted to extend unemployment benefits last week, the same bill extended an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers until April 30. Rep. Howard Coble , a Greensboro Republican, was not a primary sponsor of the version that passed but has...
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November 9, 2009
RALEIGH — Despite the drama and hype surrounding the U.S. House’s 220-215 vote on health system reform, there is still a long way to go.Senators will soon vote on their own version of reform that will be different enough from the House plan to...
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November 7, 2009
RALEIGH — Students in Guilford and Forsyth counties would begin studying for careers in the aviation industry as early as middle school under a program developed by GTCC and funded by a Golden LEAF grant of $1.45 million.
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November 6, 2009
RALEIGH — Rep. Pricey Harrison has asked the state’s attorney general and Department of Insurance to investigate Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s use of campaign-style tactics aimed at defeating controversial federal health in...
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November 4, 2009
Sen. Kay Hagan announced on her conference call this morning that President Barack Obama has nominated two North Carolina judges to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals: Judge James “Jim” Wynn, who currently sits on the N.C. Court of Appea...
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November 3, 2009
RALEIGH — Tar Heels seem to agree on this much: The nation’s health insurance system is not what it should be. Nearly 77 percent of those surveyed in a recent Elon University Poll say health care in the United States is “in need of refor...
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November 1, 2009
RALEIGH — The spectacle of a former governor being called before an elections tribunal to answer for transgressions committed by his campaign was historic in many ways. If nothing else, Mike Easley was the first former chief executive subpoenaed in...
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October 30, 2009
RALEIGH — The State Board of Elections handed out punishment to three different parties in connection with former Gov. Mike Easley’s campaign finances Friday.
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Note: Follow today's testimony live at this Capital Beat blog post ANALYSIS RALEIGH — There will be many questions left unanswered even after the State Board of Elections rules on its investigation of former Gov. Mike Easley today .
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October 29, 2009
Note: Follow Wednesday's hearings live online at this Capital Beat blog post. You can also see video at the News & Observer.
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October 28, 2009
Note: Follow Wednesday's hearings live online at this Capital Beat blog post ANALYSIS RALEIGH — Good government campaigners have long labeled high-dollar campaign donations as corrosive to the political process. Maybe they ought to blame such donati...
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October 27, 2009
Note: For updates on Tuesday, visit Easley hearings, day 2 ANALYSIS
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October 25, 2009
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley was talking ethics back in March 2006. He had shoehorned reporters into his Capitol office to announce that he would appoint former judge Robert Farmer to lead the state’s ethics board and would order Farmer to condu...
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Question: I read a while back that lottery officials were going to check on vendors who sell a lot of big winners. Did they? What did they find?
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October 20, 2009
CARY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Energy Secretary Steven Chu came to North Carolina on Friday to push a meeting of business leaders toward investing in renewable energy.
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October 16, 2009
RALEIGH — Federal stimulus dollars are keeping thousands of people employed, information that North Carolina submitted to an oversight agency indicates.
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October 14, 2009
RALEIGH — The future of video poker in North Carolina could hinge on a case heard by a three-judge Court of Appeals panel Wednesday. Lawyers representing the video poker industry told the court that federal law prohibits the General Assembly from re...
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October 13, 2009
RALEIGH — It wasn’t so much a question as a dare. “So, commissioner, have you tried the chocolate-covered bacon?”
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October 11, 2009
RALEIGH — Lawmakers are getting ready to take up a tax reform effort that could change how much, when and who pays for most government services through taxes. While there is broad agreement among legislators that North Carolina’s tax system ne...
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