Last week's news of the death of Associate Justice Scalia has already had an effect on the 2016 election in NC. Before Scalia's pass...

Three federal judges on Friday threw out the congressional voting maps the Republican-led General Assembly drew five years ago, ruling tha...

Thank goodness, the water has gone down. This morning the water level at Oriental is a bit more than 10 inches above normal. If you want t...

The state legislature has established March 15, 2016 as the date for the presidential primary and for all other primaries for that election ...

In a recent New York Times op-ed piece, columnist Timothy Egan describes the refusal to expand Medicaid as the South's new "lost ca...

Here is an excellent report examining how different states do under the Affordable Care Act. The report has a good summary graph of the dif...

Information is accumulating that the McRory Administration war on Medicaid and the General Assembly's refusal to expand Medicaid is frau...

We have known for a couple of days that the Department of Justice planned to sue North Carolina, as it has sued the state of Texas, over new...

They are at it again! Today's Sun Journal highlights an e-mail campaign by the Craven County Republican Party to stir up concern over a ...

Professor Dan Carter of the University of South Carolina has written a very illuminating article explaining what has happened in North Car...

On Friday the 13th of this month, state representative Michael Speciale assured a public gathering in Pamlico County that, u...

Last Friday I attended the Town Meeting with Pamlico County's State Legislators at Pamlico Community College's Ned Delamar Center. ...

No, it isn't. Here's the debate. Later today I'll give my take on the issue. The real question is: "good for whom?...

Many commentators have observed that North Carolina is rapidly undoing a century of relatively progressive legislation. In Yesterday's W...

NC Senator Tommy Tucker earlier in the week admonished a North Carolina Publisher "I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to ...

I first visited North Carolina in 1955. I was a student at the University of Mississippi. A year earlier, in Greenwood, Mississippi, the tow...

A few days ago I posted an item on Senate Bill 58, cosponsored by State Senator Norm Sanderson. The bill will vastly increase boat registra...

Local resident Greg Piner, who used the Minnesott ferry for decades to commute to work at the Marine Corps Air Station, has a creative and r...

Our State Senator, Norman Sanderson, is sponsoring a bill to increase boat registration fees. If the bill passes, the new fee schedule will ...

The 2013 session of the North Carolina Legislative Assembly has been in session for a little over a week. So far, representatives have intro...