This Old State

Readers who closely followed the fight in Washington and Beaufort counties a few years ago over the Navy's flawed plan to place an outly...

In yesterday's blog I posted comments by Tom Jensen, analyst at Public Policy Polling, about Democrat Bev Perdue's bad popularity nu...

Gov. Bev Perdue has been sharply critical of a series of court rulings that may result in the release of some murderers and other inmates se...

As anyone who pays attention to polling already knows, Public Policy Polling in Raleigh is regarded as a Democratic institution, doing a lot...

Analyst: Basnight era is over Political analyst John Davis, who for years has gauged the business-friendly tendencies of the N.C. General As...

State Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, has announced he will not run for reelection in 2010. In a statement from the office of Senate President P...

Sunday's column on tax reform mentioned the General Assembly's Republican Joint Caucus proposal for tax and spending reforms. The p...