Category Archives: Elections

As state lawmakers pursue tax reform, Roy Cordato shares with Carolina Journal Radio listeners this week some key ideas that would help improve the state tax code. Barry Smith brings us up to date on the debate over a voter ID law for North Carolina, and longtime marketing executive and UNC-Chapel Hill lecturer Mark McNeillyContinue Reading

Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online that the N.C. House has approved a measure expanding campaign spending disclosure requirements. Michael Lowrey’s Daily Journal explains how Gov. Pat McCrory’s transportation plan would spend dollars more wisely.

Barry Smith offers an update at Carolina Journal Online on several election-related measures under consideration in the N.C. House.

Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online about election-related measures on the N.C. House’s calendar this evening.

Thomas Woods likes to say, “Don’t just do something — stand there!” One suspects Woods might derive some pleasure in reading Bloomberg Businessweek‘s description of the dysfunctional Federal Election Commission. To say the FEC is broken is a parody of understatement. The agency’s structure—three Democratic commissioners and three Republicans, serving single six-year terms—means it oftenContinue Reading

Grady Jefferys played a role in the growth of television news in Raleigh and in dozens of important political campaigns in the second half of the 20th century. Jefferys recounts roughly 300 pages worth of stories and anecdotes from that work in the new book I Never Promised Not to Tell. He discussed key themesContinue Reading

Longtime North Carolina Democratic guru Gary Pearce doesn’t designate it as such, but one could label as Pearce’s Law this observation offered during the 2008 election campaign: “”liberals (or progressives or whatever you prefer) have to understand that your candidates don’t have the luxury of the right-wingers: They can’t always say exactly what they believeContinue Reading

Those of you who read Friday’s transcript of a conversation with George Mason law professor Ilya Somin, about his forthcoming book, might appreciate Joel Stein‘s latest “Awesome Column” in TIME magazine. It offers a humorous example of “democracy and political ignorance” in action. In my seven years here [in Los Angeles], I have not hadContinue Reading