This Old State

I was out of town Wednesday when the legislature feted the UNC Tar Heels for winning the NCAA men's basketball championship for the fift...

Wake Superior Court Judge Howard Manning seems satisfied with what state proposes to do in a Leandro case intervention in Halifax County, bu...

Well, here's a bit of quirky irony: Don Beason, the former top-ranked lobbyist whom the N.C. Secretary of State's office is reporte...

Sunday's column about waterboarding ,torture and American values brought some warm responses, and some hot ones, too. A Vietnam veteran ...

Just a few years ago, folks in Washington and Beaufort counties were desperately searching for political allies who would help them try to f...

The announcement by Gov. Bev Perdue Wednesday afternoon that state officials will make "an unprecedented intervention" in Halifax ...

A tax reform proposal finally has made it to committee, something of an accomplishment in itself. In recent years, a number of study commiss...