This Old State

The Civitas Institute, associated with several organizations such as the John Locke Foundation funded by the family of Art Pope, has a new t...

A reader argues that the mountaintop removal method of mining coal for power plants is one key reason why North Carolina needs commercial wi...

Alcoa Power Generating Inc. issued two new items on its blog today aimed at dampening support for a bill in the legislature to create a Yadk...

Some readers of Sunday's column on the possibility of building industrial wind turbines in the Western N.C. mountains reminded me of wha...

House Speaker Joe Hackney has given the go-ahead to Rep. Cullie Tarleton, D-Watauga, to hold another committee meeting on the proposed Yadki...

Here's a lonnnnngggg blogpost catching up on some developments in the legislature and elsewhere regarding Alcoa's quest for another ...

For Bob Orr, Courtroom 5A in the Wake County Courthouse was a happy place to be at midday on Friday. It was there that Orr, a former associ...