RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper is recovering after surgery to fix a herniated disc that his office says was causing him lower back pain. Cooper’s office said the elective procedure occurred Monday at UNC Rex […]
RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a measure passed by the General Assembly that addresses a doctor’s responsibilities if an abortion results in an infant born alive. Cooper announced his decision Thursday — […]
RALEIGH — Colleges, universities and various state institutions recently submitted applications to the NC State Board of Elections to have their student and employee ID’s approved for use in voting. Of the 81 colleges and […]
RALEIGH — Voters will soon begin to pick from among over two dozen candidates who have filed to run for an eastern North Carolina congressional seat empty since last month’s death of GOP Rep. Walter […]
RALEIGH — North State Journal caught up with North Carolina’s most influential “invisible man,” Jim Blaine, for a chat about some of the current political news. On the 3rd Congressional seat recently left open by […]
RALEIGH – In the wake of years-long court battles about the level of partisan influence on North Carolina election maps, members of both parties proposed a bill last week to completely overhaul the manner in which the maps […]
RALEIGH — The night before the monthly meeting of the North Carolina Council of State, Gov. Roy Cooper postponed a vote on the proposed move of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from Raleigh to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The last Democrat to win a presidential election, Barack Obama, ran in 2012 on a platform of raising taxes for top earners to nearly 40 percent. Now a new crop of Democratic […]
RALEIGH — Three former legislators — including a House speaker from the late 1970s — could soon join a newly reconstituted North Carolina State Ethics Commission as the choices of General Assembly leaders. The state […]
TARBORO — A longtime North Carolina Democratic legislator and budget writer who focused on education, technology and the rural economy has died. Nine-term Rep. Joe Tolson of Edgecombe County died Sunday at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital […]
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