The state Senate's recent vote to move North Carolina's presidential preference primary to March 15, 2016, means the state won't be one of the early-tier decision-makers
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is an interesting and little-noticed revolution going on at the elite levels of the national Republican Party. Whereas the party was led at one time by WASPs - essentially white, Anglo-Saxon Episcopalians and Presbyterians with a few Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans thrown in - it is...
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 7:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The McCrory administration will ask North Carolina voters to approve transportation and infrastructure bonds at a time when citizens in most (but not all) cities will elect mayors and council members. Holding the referendums this November also would ask voters statewide to cast ballots as many...
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since no candidates landed knockout punches or committed breathtaking gaffes in the Republican primary debates for U.S. Senate, election analysts say the only unanswered question is whether front-runner Thom Tillis, the state House Speaker from Mecklenburg County, is forced into a runoff.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 4:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Gov. Pat McCrory took it on the chin twice this week as the General Assembly, controlled by his fellow Republicans, voted to override the only two vetoes stamped by the first-year governor.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Supreme Propagandist at The N&O, John Drescher, says Gov. Pat called him and his colleagues DUMB this week. Really? Let's look at what McCrory said:
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 5:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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