Will the General Assembly Act to Resume Executions? Raleigh, N.C. – In conjunction with today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of ... Keep Reading
Miscellaneous Issues
General Assembly: Tough Decisions During Short Session
Excitement and attention are building for a meaningful presidential primary in North Carolina on May 6. With the focus on the primary, the May 13th start of the so-called ... Keep Reading
Corporate Welfare Crash Lands in Triad with Skybus
Chris Hayes and Max Borders This article originally appeared in the Greensboro News and Record. Imagine. You get a call from your stock broker. He says he's got a line on a ... Keep Reading
Fight Crime by Getting Connected
This article first appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer. The two men suspected of killing UNC-Chapel Hill student body President Eve Carson represent a case study in the ... Keep Reading
February 2008 DecisionMaker Poll
The DecisionMaker Poll was conducted on February 19-22 with live telephone interviews with 800 registered voters, who voted in the 2002 and 2004 general elections, were first time ... Keep Reading
Where’s the Beef (uh, Warming)?
Looks like Al Gore and the climate modelers were wrong again. Here's an article to prove it. ... Keep Reading
Kids and the Lottery: Say it Ain’t So
This article was originally published in the Fayetteville Observer. Since passage of legislation to legalize the education lottery in North Carolina in 2005, gambling has been ... Keep Reading
January 2008 DecisionMaker Poll
The DecisionMaker Poll was conducted on January 20-21 with live telephone interviews with 800 registered voters, who voted in the 2002 and 2004 general elections, were first time ... Keep Reading
The Status of “Jessica’s Law” Legislation in the General Assembly
The first edition of HB 933 included a minimum sentence of 25 years to life for an adult who molests (gropes/fondles) a child under the age of 12. This piece of the legislation, ... Keep Reading
State Has Made a Religion out of Recycling
This article first appeared in the Greensboro News & Record, January 13, 2008. Cue music. Julia stared blankly from her jail cell. She thought about the bottle that landed her ... Keep Reading