This Old State

Former Charlotte lawyer D.G. Martin has an interesting take on the atmosphere in the N.C. General Assembly these days in the wake of a coupl...

A slew of reports come across my desk that tell a lot about what’s going on in North Carolina, and most of them have implications about choi...

When Wilmington built victory ships North Carolina has a long tradition of boat-building experts, going back to the earliest days when Nativ...

Sir Walter Raleigh still tied up Poor Wally. He never got the Queen’s permission to come to the New World -- and what would become North Car...

Another colorful character in N.C. politics has gone on to his reward. If you didn’t spend much time in the state Senate from the 1960s into...

When news broke Thursday morning about the arrest of Christian Action League of N.C. executive director and Cabarrus County Commissioner Coy...

Someone once said politics is a combat sport, and in Raleigh it’s sometimes hardball without batting helmets. It’s been that way since I cam...