by James Fite | Mar 4, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Super Tuesday’s right around the corner, and among the 15 states participating in what one might call the primary season’s version of March Madness is a swing state with brand new election laws. For North Carolina voters, things are different this year. But unlike in...
by Sarah Cowgill | Apr 29, 2023 | Articles, Education, Good Reads, Opinion
An ongoing battle between the esteemed University of North Carolina and the state legislature is heating up. The Republican-controlled body is considering two bills that would require students study specific areas of US history to graduate. Naturally, hundreds of...
by Mark Angelides | May 18, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Politics
Hotly contested primary races across the nation have been seeking to determine who will be on the ballot come the November congressional elections. From Pennsylvania to Oregon, political watchers on May 17 sifted the tea leaves to determine whether the Democratic...
by Tim Donner | Dec 10, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
One of the defining features of America’s unique constitutional republic is federalism, which distributes power among the states, and in doing so effectively creates 50 separate laboratories of democracy. Innovative or controversial ideas can be instituted by...
by Joe Schaeffer | Apr 21, 2021 | Articles, Crime & Punishment
It’s the kind of news story that usually comes out of Nuevo Leon or some other blood-soaked northern Mexican state. Only this happened in central North Carolina. On April 8, a “popular” schoolteacher was killed in a shootout with Mexican drug cartel members as he was...