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Triangle - New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting - a finding that may build support for IRV. The use of IRV precludes the need for a second run-off election, saving voters time and providing election results more promptly.
RALEIGH - A political operative who guided former Gov. Mike Easley's two campaigns for North Carolina's top office testified Wednesday before a federal grand jury investigating activities surrounding the Democratic governor.
RALEIGHA political operative who guided former Gov. Mike Easley 's two campaigns for North Carolina's top office appeared at a federal courthouse Wednesday as a federal grand jury met to hear more testimony about the Democratic governor.
A political operative who guided former Gov. Mike Easley's two campaigns for North Carolina's top office has entered a federal courthouse where documents show a grand jury is meeting.
LUMBERTON - Former school administrator Purnell Swett was elected chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina in unofficial results Tuesday night.
Newly filed campaign finance forms show challengers for any of North Carolina's 13 congressional districts are already behind in terms of campaign cash.
George Holding, the Republican-appointed U.S. attorney for North Carolina's eastern district, expressed some angst over changes in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which includes North Carolina.
Several residents spoke out at Chapel Hill town council Monday night against a concept plan for a proposed mixed-use residential and retail development downtown. The University of North Carolina Wesley House, a Methodist student organization, is proposing the four story building to be located at the corner of West Rosemary and Church Street. The proposal includes demolishing three buildings to ...
Bob Hall of Democracy North Carolina boldly labels a public financing program for political candidates as honorable and voluntary ("Honorable alternatives for campaign financing," Nov. 5 Point of View article). He is wrong on both counts.
North Carolina Rep. Bob Etheridge says he will not to run for the U.S. Senate next year.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal investigators want to know more about four coastal real estate developments by a pair of brothers with ties to former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley and if anyone made payoffs to state regulators.
I continue to be confounded by the indecisiveness of philosophical opposition in our region to the idea of partisan political control and the direction of journalism in North Carolina.
The prosecutor handling the campaign finance case of former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley said he wants to decide by February whether to seek criminal charges against the two-term Democrat.
The prosecutor handling the campaign finance case of former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley says he wants to decide by February whether to seek criminal charges against the two-term Democrat.
By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press WriterRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The prosecutor handling the campaign finance case of former North Carolina Gov. Mik ...
While the Republican presidential nominee is clearly slanted to be Senator John McCain of Arizona, the race for the Democratic presidential nominee has been a close and controversial one from the start.
