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Christian prayer before public meetings in North Carolina is a constitutional no-no, a federal magistrate there ruled this month.
George Holding, the Republican-appointed U.S. attorney for North Carolina's eastern district, e
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.
As a retired truck driver, I want to thank U.S. Reps. G.K. Butterfield, Bob Etheridge, Brad Miller, David Price and Mel Watt for helping seniors in North Carolina by voting for the House health care bill.
RALEIGH – Former state representative Thomas Wright’s appeal of a 2008 conviction of fraud has been denied by the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Eight of North Carolina's 13 representatives – three Democrats and five Republicans – voted against the health care overhaul bill approved by the House of Representatives Saturday.
North Carolina legislators elected in 2010 will have the job of drawing new congressional and legislative district lines in mid-2011. In addition to the economic recession that weighed so heavily on state budgeting in the recent legislative session, this political reality creates the context of both Democratic and Republican strategy and decision-making in the General Assembly and in their ...
North Carolina's congressional delegation is asking the U.S. Department of Labor to listen to farmers before making changes to the visas used by seasonal farmworkers.
From Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, a Durham-based elections research and advocacy group.
