North Carolina Politics Information Directory

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Weisel, former legal counsel to House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan, said the examination of the association's finances is an example of what North Carolina politics could look like as more groups like the Realtors enter. ...

RALEIGH, NC - A North Carolina government and budget reform panel formed by Gov. Beverly Perdue says she should consider ways to make Medicaid and the state's.

The commercial and recreational fishing industries have already been taking a big hit in both North and South Carolina and the last thing we need is further encroachment by the Federal government. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Winston-Salem Journal Editorial Recent scandals at local ABC boards in Wilmington and Charlotte have created political momentum for privatization of.

RALEIGH, N.C. — State Board of Elections Chairman Larry Leake didn't want to hear about a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the doors to more direct corporate and union involvement in political campaigns while he weighed evidence whether the North Carolina Association of Realtors broke the

The North Carolina Democratic Party is taking Senator Richard Burr to task on his right-wing, anti-jobs agenda in a new video released this morning. The video challenges Burr for skipping a crucial vote on the jobs bill to attend a campaign ...

State Board of Elections Chairman Larry Leake didn't want to hear about a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the doors to more direct corporate and union involvement in political campaigns while he weighed evidence whether the North Carolina ...

Although North Carolina was a top battleground in the 2008 presidential race, the swing state appears to be far from the front lines in the battle for the House in 2010. With the political winds blowing in the GOP’s favor, national Republicans have ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — A U.S. congressman from North Carolina wants the $50 bill redrawn to feature the face of former President Ronald Reagan. Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry wants Congress to require the U.S Treasury to replace former President Ulysses ...

The folks from Fox News are feeling unfairly maligned. Yesterday, Texas Education Agency issued a news release yesterday citing several inaccuracies in the network’s coverage of the State Board of Education’s social studies curriculum debate ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is moving a couple of steps closer to giving citizens real-time online access to public information. This Tuesday's school board meeting marks the debut of a link to agendas and supporting documents posted in advance ...

enable JavaScript. Learn how . install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now . Then come back here and refresh the page. RALEIGH -- North Carolina residents supporting and rejecting President Barack Obama's efforts to overhaul the nation's health care ...

The State Board of Elections has dismissed a complaint against one of the most powerful interest groups in North Carolina politics over requiring its members to give extra dues while they fought local votes over raising the land sales tax. Following ...

The White House fondness for deadlines is once again playing havoc with President Obama's agenda, this time on health care. "If you don't set a deadline in this town, nothing happens," Obama said last year, just before Congress missed an earlier ...