Elections

N.C. legislators have loosed restrictions on the state’s targeted tax incentive program for economic development. Jon Sanders explains why that’s a bad idea during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Terry Stoops offers a firsthand account of North Carolina’s charter school development process. UNC-Chapel Hill business…

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the bill that would shake up membership of boards overseeing N.C. elections and ethics enforcement. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal ponders N.C. incentives and Apple’s decision to locate its new expansion in Austin.

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the plan for new state elections and ethics boards that lawmakers have sent to the governor. Andy Taylor’s Daily Journal argues that America stands closer to morning than midnight, despite the tone of today’s political rhetoric.

David Siders writes for Politico about self-styled progressives‘ move to enforce a greater degree of ideological conformity. Progressive Democrats are beginning to confront an unintended consequence of their own success: dilution of the brand. So many Democratic presidential prospects are now claiming the progressive mantle in advance of…

The Tar Heel State will continue to play a role as a national political battleground in 2020. That’s a key finding from the latest Civitas poll. Rick Henderson dissects the poll’s findings for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Dan Way analyzes State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s…

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on three Republican senators calling for a bipartisan probe of absentee voting irregularities in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. Lindsay Marchello reports on the State Board of Education’s vote to add a Goldsboro school to the Innovative School District. John Trump’s…

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the prospects for a new election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. Marc Rotterman’s Daily Journal honors the late President George H.W. Bush.

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill to restore separate state boards for election oversight and ethics enforcement. John Hood’s Daily Journal responds to the latest plan for housing UNC-Chapel Hill’s controversial Silent Sam statue.