Education Bell to join Cooper’s UNC commission House Majority Leader John Bell has agreed to serve on Gov. Roy Cooper’s new commission exploring possible changes to UNC...
Budget & Taxes EPA awards funding for air quality monitoring North Carolina will get about $1 million of $53.4 million grants announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor...
Elections Democrats post $11 million fundraising haul Yesterday we reported on the N.C. Republican Party’s third-quarter fundraising and spending. As of Thursday, we have the N.C. Democratic...
Elections Ranking N.C. Senate races by the money spent Which N.C. Senate districts will be the most competitive on Tuesday? For an idea, we can look to how the...
Elections Campaign Spotlight: District 18 I’ll admit this district wasn’t on my list of competitive seats until I started seeing campaign ads in recent weeks.
Education Cooper creates commission to consider UNC board changes Ever since the legislature created a board to oversee the state’s university system in the 1970s, it has given itself...
Elections Ad Watch: A Jan. 6 claim in N.C. House race In a hotly contested northern Wake County House race, Democratic N.C. Rep. Terence Everitt’s campaign has a new ad out...
Elections Cooper’s big role in fundraising The N.C. Democratic Leadership Committee (the fundraising committee for Democrats on the Council of State) spent $2.18 million in the...
Elections State parties bankrolling million-dollar legislative campaigns The latest round of campaign finance reports were due Tuesday, and they’ve been trickling into the State Board of Elections’...
Elections Ad Watch: Fake mugshot in a bitter race Weeks after Democrats cried foul over Photoshopped images in campaign ads, a TV commercial for a Democratic House candidate that...
Elections Celebrity, pet donkey ‘pump up’ election officials North Carolina election workers on a routine conference call Monday got an unexpected pep talk from former California Gov. Arnold...
Elections Different themes in Supreme Court race depending on whose ads you’re seeing With an opportunity for Republicans to take control of the N.C. Supreme Court through 2028 (Democrats are playing defense in...
Elections Ad Watch: Meyer’s closing argument for Democrats Rep. Graig Meyer, D-Orange, is running for state Senate in a district where President Joe Biden won 65% of the...
Budget & Taxes Tillis questions new SEC regulations U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is among several senators raising concerns about the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Elections NC low on ad spending ranking among battleground states If it feels like you’re constantly being assaulted by campaign ads on your TV and in your mailbox this month,...
