Articles

• Public Issues (262)
  • The Silver Fox's Pink Slip
  • Robert Reich: It's Smart to Raise the Minimum Wage
  • Endorse Randy Voller for NC Democratic Party Chair
  • Chatham County Jubilee Day Celebration
  • Party Identity in a Gun Cabinet
  • Darden Restaurants Profit Plunges After Anti Obamacare Campaign Backfires
  • Twelve Facts About Guns and Mass Shootings in the United States
  • A Tragedy of Silence
  • Looking for America
  • Comments Made at Public Input Session During Commissioners' Meeting on Monday, December 3, 2012
  • Fox News Pushing Karl Rove, Dick Morris Off The Air
  • Congressman’s Restaurant Refused To Serve Muslim Couple
  • Santorum Strikes Again
  • Justice Newby in a Bind
  • A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy
  • Budget Tweak Could Put Mentally Ill on the Street
  • Saxby Chambliss: 'I Care A Lot More About' America Than About Grover Norquist (VIDEO)
  • Tax Talks Raise Bar for Richest Americans
  • The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer Refused to Say When He Decided to Be Straight
  • Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
  • Map Showing Largest Ancestry Population by Counties
  • SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justice Alito Takes on Critics of Major Campaign Finance Ruling
  • Short Guide to the Fiscal Showdown (The "Cliff" is a Myth)
  • ‘Fool Me Twice’: Obama’s Shocking Plan For The Next 4 Years
  • Proof That Early Education Benefits the Economy
  • In Wake of Amendment One, Opinions Shift Nationwide in Favor of Gay Marriage
  • Papa John's PIZZA Obama Care Problem
  • Obama’s Nightmare
  • Meet the Man Massachusetts Thinks Can Crack Its Health Spending Problem
  • Last Week’s Letter From the Current Board of Commissioner’s (BOC) Chair Brian Bock
  • How Insurers Can Help
  • Health Care Reform Topic of Meeting
  • One Way Not to Fix Medicare
  • One in Five North Carolinians Lacks Health Insurance
  • Yes, the Rich Are Different
  • Judge's Strong Backing of Education
  • Sign On Petition for Gov. Perdue from Joe Reed of Pittsboro
  • Outfoxed: Fox News Technique: "Some People Say"
  • Rep. Ellmers: Frat Boy Junkets vs. Delivering Actual Value to Her Constituents
  • Everybody Always Thinks Inflation Is Higher Than It Really Is
  • ACLU Says Many Inmates Wrongly Sentenced Due to NC Law
  • Poverty in America: Why Can’t We End It?
  • North Carolina NAACP To Unveil Poverty Report This Weekend
  • New Doubts Arise for Online Charter
  • Wrong Reforms on Voting
  • Obama Signs Bill Helping Lejeune Water Victims
  • Pittman Once Again Gets Attention for Planned Parenthood Remarks
  • First Pictures from Mars by "Curiosity" Lander
  • END TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH
  • Op-Ed: Dickerson -The future of Social Security and Medicare in North Carolina
  • Economist Says the American Retirement System Has Failed
  • The Republican War on Women’s Reproductive Health Care
  • N.C. Can't Outlaw Global Climate Change
  • Editorial: U.S. Must Put a Laser-Like Focus on Math and Science Education
  • Editorial: It's Bad - Only Congress Can Stop a Local Recession
  • Two-Thirds of Democrats Now Support Gay Marriage
  • Worse Than Watergate: The New Campaign Finance Order Puts the Corruption of the 1970s to Shame
  • Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment
  • Destroying the Commons
  • The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
  • Pennsylvania Voter ID Case Opens in State Court
  • Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling
  • Medicaid Expansion May Lower Death Rates, Study Says
  • Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
  • Planned Parenthood Wins Federal Funds to Replace Money Cut by GOP-Led Legislature
  • Child Poverty Grows in North Carolina
  • US Poverty on Track to Rise to Highest Since 1960s
  • Op-Ed: Hackney - Republicans' Vision Pushes State Backward
  • How Your Leaders Voted
  • Report Criticizes Online Schools' Student Outcomes
  • Bus to DC "Stop the Frack Rally" Sat 7/28/2012
  • Environmentalists Target 5 Republicans Who Question Humans’ Impact on Climate
  • Gov. Purdue Announces 460 New RTP Jobs
  • N.C. 4th, Texas Rules in CNBC 'Top States for Business'
  • Documenting North Carolina’s Screech to the Right, Part II
  • Cracks Appear in Republican Unity on Health Law Repeal
  • State's High Court Will Weigh Access to Redistricting Documents
  • Editorial: The Legislature Shamefully Turns Its Back on Sterilization Victims
  • Going, Going, Gone: Report Finds Offshoring Contributes to NC’s Lagging Recovery
  • States' Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise Thousands in 2012
  • Texas to Test 1965 Voting Rights Law in Court
  • What exactly is ObamaCare and What Did it Change? "Explained Like You're a 5-Year-Old."
  • North Carolina Regresses on Race and Gender Bias
  • Obama "Makes No Apologies" for His Overhaul of Health care
  • Amidst Holder Contempt Vote, New Investigation Undermines Key GOP Claims on "Fast and Furious"
  • Medicare Dilemma
  • FLYERGATE: Mmes Rucho & Tillis Repond & Defend Husbands
  • NC Legislature De-Funds Planned Parenthood
  • No Changing a Legislative Wrong Number
  • North Carolina League of Conservation Voters Asked Rep. Hamilton to Return Her "Rising Star" Award
  • Bills Intended to Make Voting Harder in NC Are Dead Until Next General Assembly Begins in 2013
  • A Legislative Honor You Don't Want to Win
  • The EPA Wins, for Science's Sake
  • My Little Contribution to Voting Rights Protection
  • REMINDER: Run-Off Primary Election on July 17th
  • The Breaks on Fracking
  • NC Budget Battle
  • Gov. Perdue's Vetoes
  • States Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion Could Leave Many Uninsured
  • How Massachusetts Is Faring Under Its Landmark Health-Care Reform Law
  • Republicans 'Think Jobs,' and a Rural County Waits for Them
  • Health Care Law's Mandate Unlikely to Affect Many People
  • Gov. Bev Perdue Today Vetoed the State Budget Proposal
  • Gov. Perdue to Legislature: Do More Work on the Budget
  • Rep. Price Calls for Student Loan Rate Extension at NCSU
  • Democratic Lawmaker: On Education, Romney and GOP Lawmakers Don't Get It
  • Winston-Salem Journal Editorial: Perdue Should Veto These Bills
  • State School Board Wants to Keep Virtual School From Opening
  • Lewis: New Voter ID Bill Unlikely
  • Less of a Person in the Eyes of North Carolina
  • NEW WEBSITE: Introduction: Why We Need to Stand Up for Government
  • Police Chief, Judges Battle Bail Proposal
  • New Chatham Web Site Connects Environmental Community
  • Corporate Tax Credit Rolled Into Literacy Bill
  • Our Own Comment: Now This is Just Plain Goofy Thinking
  • Republicans in Congress Block Fixing Infrastructure to Keep Obama From Looking Good
  • A Test of Racial Justice
  • Editorial - N.C. House Republicans Ignore Fairness in Gutting Racial Justice Act
  • Oppose Hagan Amendment, Protect Our Drinking Water
  • Scores in N.C. Are Legally 'Innocent,' Yet Still Imprisoned
  • Inside the Koch World Convention
  • NAACP Disputes Tillis's 'invitation' to Talk Voter ID
  • Tillis Meets with Activists to 'Assess' Voter ID
  • ACLU Sues Over North Carolina’s Same Sex Adoption Ban
  • U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Hears ‘Birthers’ Case
  • Religious Bigotry Goes Down In Flames In North Dakota
  • Special Security for House Speaker Isn't Needed
  • Senate Approves Law that Challenges Sea Level Science
  • NC House Republicans Legislatively Deny There is Racial Injustice
  • Gov. Perdue: Senate Budget Plan Is Not Good Enough For Our Children
  • The Pre-K Route
  • Virtual Trouble
  • House Republicans Reject FCC Rule to Force TV Stations to Publish Who Paid for Political Ads
  • Corporate Tax Tunes
  • Tillis Unplugged (and Incomprehensible) Again
  • Troy Williams: Justice System Needs Reform
  • Unbalancing N.C.’s Environmental Regulation
  • Opponents Attempt Another 'End Run' Around RJA
  • NC Coastal Federation SEA NO EVIL CONTEST
  • Jonathan Haidt Answers Your Questions About Morality, Politics, and Religion
  • Netroots Nation 2012: Paul Krugman Analysis The Current State Of Economy
  • The ‘American Dream’ Is a Myth: Joseph Stiglitz on ‘The Price of Inequality’
  • New Changes to the Racial Justice Act Pending
  • Spending to Ensure November Elections Run Smoothly
  • Scientist Says Legislation Puts NC Coast at Risk
  • NC Senate Panel OKs Sea-Level Rise Bill
  • Mayor Voller's Open Letter to Speaker Tillis and Members of the House
  • Governor's Budget Would Move Us Forward
  • NC Legislators Back Corporations on Taxes
  • Today In Stupid: North Carolina Considers A Law Against Predicting Sea Level Rise
  • A New NC Loophole for Businesses Will Cost State $336 Million a Year
  • VIDEO: Illinois Republican: Emotional Tantrum + Ironic Memory Lapse
  • Church Places Apology To Gay Community On Billboard Along Billy Graham Parkway in North Carolina
  • A Diversion from Better Public Education
  • Appeals Court Turns Back Marriage Act as Unfair to Gays
  • N.C. House Balances Budget with Housing Settlement Funds
  • Annexation Rule Changes Approved by NC :Lawmakers
  • Berger's Education Bill Passes Committee Over Objections
  • NC Nonprofits Gear Up for Budget Battle in Raleigh
  • General Assembly Has Heads Buried in Sand
  • N&O Editorial: Our 'Means'
  • N.C. Lawmakers Get Pushback Over Vetoes Waiting for an Override Vote
  • N&O Editorial on Sen. Berger's Education "Reform" Bill
  • Editorial - Instead of Subsidizing Private Schools, Focus on Public Schools' Needs
  • NC Republican Bill to Further Dismantle Public Schools -- the "Common School"
  • VIDEO: Citizens United Lobby Day May 23, 2012
  • Why a Lobby Group’s Gifts to Lawmakers Should Provoke Outrage and Lots More Scrutiny
  • Editorial - Law Schools’ Project Could Prompt Push to prevent Wrongful Convictions
  • Pair of Forced Annexation Bills Head to NC House
  • VIDEO: Voting Rights Struggles in NC
  • Center on Budget & Policy Priorities RE: Boehner's Remarks on Debt Limit
  • Leaders Seek to Counter Voter ID
  • Rich American Capitalist Explains How the Rich Do Not Create Jobs
  • And the NC Republican-Controlled Legislature Won't Even Support Restoring Just Three-Fourths of ONE Penny Sales Tax for Schools?
  • The Raging Grannies Welcoming NC General Assembly Back to Raleigh
  • Stand Up for Our Schools
  • Mitt Romney Let Senate Republicans Once Again Turn Their Back on Young Adults
  • Education Plan Likely Too Much for Session
  • Legislature Takes No Action, but Protesters Push Tillis for Meeting
  • Education Reform? Looks Like Politics
  • Think Social Security and Medicare are on life support? Think again . . .
  • First NC Racial Justice Act Case is Successful
  • Ranks of Uninsured Tar Heels Jump More Than Twice as Quickly as N.C. Population
  • At Stake 2012: Education
  • New Report Says N.C. Has Lost Its Position as Leader in Pre-K Programs
  • Education Cuts Reaching a Tipping Point
  • McIntyre’s (Fearrington) Author Event: Stuart Altman
  • Study: Conservatives' Trust in Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s
  • N.C. Pins Blame for Gas Prices on Oil Companies, Foreign Nations
  • 6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week
  • The New Poor in North Carolina
  • National Anti-Gay Marriage Group Seeks to Divide
  • BLOG: I LIKE "OBAMACARE" BECAUSE....
  • Editorial: The Phony Issue (Greensboro News & Record)
  • Despite GOP Promises To Clean Up Campaign Finance, It's As Dirty As Ever
  • REALITY CHECK: New Ad Catches Governor's Attention
  • President Obama’s Health Care Law Is Already Helping Millions of North Carolinians
  • Learn How the Affordable (Health) Care Act Benefits You
  • Editorial - Republicans Will Have to Face Consequences of Damage to UNC System
  • FACT CHECK: Ellmers' Health Panel Claim Not True
  • Gov. Martin O'Malley, Chair of the National Democratic Governors Association on Civil Rights
  • The Money Behind Americans for Prosperity
  • Editorial: GOP Wisely Backs Off Plan to Privatize Pre-K
  • Wanna Bet George Cleveland Wishes He Had Kept His Mouth Shut?
  • Further Concerns on Charter Schools
  • Jacksonville NC Legislator Says No 'Extreme Poverty' in NC
  • Excellent Resources on Health Care Reform
  • Speaker Tillis Campaign Finance Report Omissions
  • EDITORIAL: Legislative Proposal Cuts Many At-Risk Children Out of Pre-K
  • Republicans Propose to Sell State's Pre-K Program to Highest Bidder
  • THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: STRENGTHENING MEDICARE IN 2011
  • The Deceptive Arguments for the NC Defense of Marriage Amendment
  • Tillis Ignored Democratic Process in Ousting Protesters
  • State Republican Leaders Moving to Limit Pre-K Eligibility
  • Art Pope Funneled Large Amounts of Money to Influence College Curricula
  • NC Speaker Tillis's Double Standard on How Democracy Works
  • Thousands Rallied in Raleigh Last Weekend for Civil Rights
  • CCDW Dinner Meeting February 21
  • Food Stamp Recipients Speak Out
  • Republican Efforts to Sideline Educators
  • Voters Dislike Midnight Legislative Action
  • NC Black Legislators Blast GOP Leadership
  • Another Example of NC's Republican Legislature's Style of Open Government
  • The Big Apple Lashes Out over Citizens United Decision
  • Last Wednesday's Midnight Action by Republicans
  • Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs
  • Still No Override to Racial Justice Act Veto
  • North Carolina Family Policy Council's 'Sniper' Image
  • Several Bills Could Be Voted on in Override Session Beginning January 4th
  • Fears About North Carolina's Racial Justice Act Debated
  • Senate May Void North Carolina's Racial Bias Law
  • North Carolina Republican Redistricting Plan Featured in CNN Report
  • Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of NC Redistricting Plans
  • Tea Party Extremism Rebuffed at the Polls on Nov. 08th
  • UNC Prof. Gene Nichol's Address to Orange County Democratic Women's Luncheon
  • Wealth & Income Inequality
  • Opinion: Voter ID Bill Based on Voter Suppression
  • The Bookmobile's Last Ride
  • Proposed Democratic Congressional Redistricting Map
  • Roundtable: The Debt Crisis and Saving Our Fiscal Future
  • NC DEMOCRATS APPLAUD JUDGE MANNING’S RULING
  • Six Months to Undo a Century of Progress!
  • PROPOSED COMMISSIONER DISTRICT PLANS to Be Considered July 18, 2011
  • AN Invitation to County and and Other Public Officials
  • N&O Supports Governor Perdue's Veto of Voter ID Bill
  • June 20, 2011 Public Testimony of Jeffrey Starkweather
  • The Plan for Chatham County District Boundaries Redistricting
  • Our Measurable is Not...Net Profit...but Quality of Life
  • North Carolina State Budget Unpopular with Voters
  • League of Women Voters June 18th Forum on Redistricting
  • Public Input Sought on Draft Joint Chatham-Cary Land Use Plan
  • We Need to Invest, Not Dither
  • McCrory Willing to Sell Out North Carolina’s Children for a Penny
  • Budget Process Short Circuited By the Majority County Commissioners
  • Governor Perdue's Letter on the Budget Sent to State Republican Leadership
  • Party Chairman's Letter to Commissioners on the 2011-2012 Budget
  • Investing in Early Childhood Education Benefits All of Us
  • The Issue of Voter Fraud in North Carolina
  • Open Letter to Our County Commissioners
  • Resolution Opposing State Legislative Efforts to Shorten Early Voting
  • Resolution Opposing Hydraulic Fracturing in North Carolina
  • Chatham County’s Democratic Party Calls for a Fair and Transparent Redistricting Process
• 2012 Election News (670)
  • A Look Back at the 2012 Campaign Highlights
  • Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS to IRS: What, Us Get Involved in Politics?
  • Now That's What I Call Gerrymandering!
  • Grand Old Planet
  • Conservative Republicans Fight Back After Romney Loss
  • Florida: Allen West Concedes to Patrick Murphy
  • The Republicans Still Don’t Get It
  • Life, Death and Deficits
  • Linda Coleman Will File Lawsuits Today in Lieutenant Governor Race
  • Pual Ryan on Losing and Moving On
  • Dear Mr. President: Please fight to overturn Citizens United
  • Battle Lines Drawn Over 'Growth Revenue' in U.S. Fiscal Cliff Talks
  • Romney's Disdain for the Middle Class and His Warped View of America Continues
  • Now That's What I Call Gerrymandering!
  • The End of the Pledge: How Democrats Can Finally Beat Grover Norquist
  • Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
  • Why Romney Never Saw It Coming
  • CNN Exit Poll: If Only White Men Had Voted in 2012 Election
  • Raleigh Presidential Inauguration Trip To Washington D.C. January 19-21, 2013
  • WIRED's Observation Deck: The Cities That Elected Obama
  • GOP Voter Fraud: One Instance Brought to Justice
  • MSNBC Making Moves Against Fox, While Right-Wingers Revolt Against Conservative Media
  • David Frum Claims Republicans Have Been Lied To And Exploited By A Conservative Entertainment Complex
  • There Is A Brutal Civil War In The GOP, And It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty
  • Romney Losing Thousands of Facebook Friends Daily
  • And Now This: Petitioners in 20 States File to Secede
  • GOP Senator Says ‘Put Politics Aside’ to Avoid ‘Fiscal Cliff’
  • Can Pat McCrory Accomplish What He Promised in the Campaign?
  • Christensen: Reflecting on the 2012 Elections
  • Make A Stand: Help Support the Linda Colemen Recount
  • Where Did the Debt Come From?
  • Romney Cuts Off Campaign Workers Credit Cards, Leaves Workers Stranded
  • University Of Mississippi Students 'Riot' Over Obama Re-election
  • Karl Rove vs. Fox News
  • 10 Right-Wingers Who Got Election 2012 Hilariously Wrong
  • BREAKING: Mitt Romney About To Be Charged With Violating Federal Ethics Law
  • Fordham Study: Public Policy Polling Deemed Most Accurate National Pollster In 2012
  • Obama's Re-Election Will Push NC to Set up Health Exchange
  • The McCrory Transition Team
  • Art Pope and Co. Anchor McCrory Transition
  • Let’s Not Make a Deal
  • The Republicans Bet Everything, and Obama Won It All
  • Hope and Change: Part 2
  • The Obama Realignment
  • Nov. 5: Late Poll Gains for Obama Leave Romney With Longer Odds
  • Bill Maher Warns Voters: If You Elect Romney....
  • Romney Style: How to Destroy Your Campaign's Credibility in 5 Easy Steps
  • FOX NEWS: My prediction -- Obama Will, and Should, Win on Election Day
  • DON'T BE FOOLED -- VOTE !!
  • 12 Must Share Facts About Obama's Record: Make Sure Your Friends Know About These Accomplishments
  • Five Ways You Can Help Obama Win Tomorrow!
  • Romney Never Expected Someone to Make This Video -- SHARE
  • President Bill Clinton Addresses Crowd of 4,000 in Raleigh
  • Steve Benen Documents Romney’s 917 Lies Over 41 Weeks (With Sources)
  • Promises Kept
  • Republicans Say Don't Vote for Romney
  • Romnopoly
  • Annabel's Mom Backs Obama, Calls for Unity, Calls Out Republicans in Congress
  • Colin Powell Endorses President Obama
  • 537 Votes Make a Difference -- FORWARD THIS to Someone Who Doesn't Think Their Vote Will Matter in This Election
  • GOP Record Top Issue in N.C. General Assembly Election
  • Obama Has Slight Lead in Electoral Votes; Congress Expected to Remain Status Quo
  • Haaretz, the Oldest Israeli Daily Newspaper, Endorsed President Obama.
  • Three Days Out, Romney Is Desperate as President Obama Is Leading Early Vote in the Key Battleground States
  • Why I Support Barack Obama for a Second Term
  • Pay to Players Line Up For McCrory State Contractors Pony Up Over $200K
  • Re-Elect Kost and Cross Chatham County Commissioners
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Ryan Budget
  • FIGHTING FOR A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS
  • N&O Endorsements for Council of State Candidates
  • Liberty to Lie
  • NC Officials Troubled by Raucous Election Activity
  • The State of the Race
  • Why I Am Endorsing President Barack Obama
  • McCrory Violated Laws with Campaign Flights, Complaint Says
  • GOP Debunked: Obama Did Not Create $5 Trillion in New Debt
  • Romney Campaign Training Poll Watchers To Mislead Voters In Wisconsin
  • Hurricane Sandy Highlights How Obama and Romney Respond to Disasters
  • Boston Globe Endorses Barack Obama Over Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
  • 4 Pinocchios for Mitt Romney’s misleading ad on Chrysler and China
  • Romney Would Pass the Buck on Disasters
  • For Congress: Steve Wilkins (2nd Congressional District)
  • As Romney Edges Toward Moderation, Ryan Takes a Lower Profile
  • Early Voting Gives Obama A Solid Lead in the Battleground States That’ll Help Decide The Election
  • ROMNEY’S DESPERATION
  • Republican Renee Ellmers and Democrat Steve Wilkins Go "On the Record"
  • Obama, Again
  • Of Mad Men, Mad Women and Meat Loaf
  • Barack Obama for Re-Election
  • Why I Am Pro-Life
  • Foreign Policy: President Obama's Strong and Steady Leadership vs. Romney's Blunder and Bluster
  • A Very Quick Look at President Obama’s First Term
  • Romney’s Economic Model
  • LARRY PRESSLER: Republican Senator, Vietnam Veteran Endorses President Obama
  • Pointing Toward Prosperity?
  • GOP Voter Fraud Accusations Suddenly Blowing Up In Their Faces
  • Misinformation, Fear, And Hate In America
  • Here’s a Memo From the Boss: Vote This Way
  • Voter Purge in Key Indiana County Goes Overboard
  • Romney Campaign Photoshops Image To Make Crowd Appear Larger
  • Unemployed Man Asks Paul Ryan About Jobs, Ryan Laughs and Offers the Man Candy
  • Vote Counting Company Tied to Romney
  • Tagg Romney Owns Voting Machines In Ohio
  • Mitt Romney Continues to Endorse Richard Mourdock
  • Remember This About Romney
  • Early Voting Kicks Off in Florida: They Need to Remember Romney’s Top-Down Vision
  • Romney Spends Big on Firms Tied to Aides
  • PNA Poll Shows Obama With N.C. Lead
  • GLOBAL POLL: Obama Preferred Over Romney
  • Thom Hartmann: Bain’s Sensata Outsourcing Scandal Blows Up
  • PANTS ON FIRE: Romney Says Obama Plans $4,000 Tax Hike on Middle cCass
  • Paul Ryan’s ‘Problematic’ RNC Spending Spree
  • Pennsylvania GOP Says Women Have To Prove They Were Raped If They Want Benefits
  • Washington Post Endorsement: Four more Years for President Obama
  • Linda Coleman Better Choice for Lt. Governor
  • Early Voting in NC Tope 1 Million
  • Condi Rice Pours Cold Water On ‘Benghazi-Gate’
  • Elect Steve Wilkins for NC Congressional District 2
  • Super PAC Funds Pour Into Newby’s Campaign for N.C. Supreme Court
  • Romney Campaign Chair: Colin Powell Endorsed Obama Because He Is Black
  • Romney and Extreme Inequalities
  • Colin Powell Endorses Obama and Says Why
  • Editorial: Elect Ervin to High Court
  • Politicized Supreme Court Election
  • Mad Money: TV Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaigns
  • Walter Dalton's Edge
  • SECOND-TERM PLAN: President Obama’s Specific and Achievable Plan for A New Economic Patriotism
  • Will Romney Demand that Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock Stop Airing His Endorsement Ad?
  • Obama's Edge: The Ground Game That Could Put Him Over the Top
  • Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?
  • So Much For the Liberal Media? Local Cable Provider Offers Obama 2016 for Free
  • Ohio Democrats Protest Misleading Mailer With Wrong Election Date
  • The Real Cost of the Romney/Ryan Plan to North Carolinians
  • Equal Pay For Women Not Supported by the GOP
  • 10 Things You Will Not Hear From Pat McCrory At Tonight's Debate
  • A NEW ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM: A PLAN FOR JOBS AND MIDDLE-CLASS SECURITY
  • The Final Debate
  • Dear Residents of Chatham County
  • Dalton Says McCrory Sought Stimulus Cash for Duke Energy, While Decrying Stimulus
  • Obama Wins Debate by 11 Points in Swing States
  • Sparring Over Foreign Policy, Obama Goes on the Offense
  • Third Presidential Debate Again Documented Romney Continues to be Wrong On Critical Issues
  • FACT CHECK: Romney Stands Shoulder To Shoulder With Cheney, Bush
  • America Saw Its Commander-in-Chief Next to Someone Else Who’s Not Ready to be Commander-in-Chief
  • Mitt Romney Benefited From Offshoring Tax Break In 2001 While Listed As Bain CEO
  • FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE: President Obama is Strong and Steady; Romney Offers Only Bluster and Blunders
  • In South, Republicans Find That Dominance Does Not Ensure Solidarity
  • Goldman Residence Source of Many Calls to Police
  • Obama’s Not-So-Hidden Second-Term Agenda
  • INDY's 2012 General Election Endorsements
  • Campaigns Debate ‘Binders Full of Women’
  • Protect Yourself and Others from Voter Suppression Intimidation
  • McCrory Floats; Dalton Stings
  • Romney’s Facts Are Curious Things
  • Romney Tax Plan
  • President Obama Clearly Won the Second Debate
  • Romney’s Second Debate Deceptions
  • President Obama at Tonight's Debate
  • Romney’s Advisors Admitted it Would Be Politically “Suicidal” to Campaign on Specifics
  • BE SURE TO WATCH THIS BEFORE THE 2nd PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
  • Clinton: 'I Take Responsibility' for Security Ahead of Benghazi attack
  • The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent
  • Six Questions a Veteran of Iraq and Af’stan Would Like to Ask the Candidates in Tomorrow’s Presidential Debate
  • Tea Party Activists Fight Agenda 21, Seeing Threatening U.N. Plot
  • Polls: Obama Has An Edge Over Romney on Medicare
  • Tim D'Annunzio Challenges Incumbent David Price in Congressional District 4
  • The Three States That May Decide the Election
  • Tuesday's Second Presidential Debate
  • Will the Real Mitt Romney Keep Hiding the Truth?
  • Death by Ideology
  • Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
  • The Rise of Supply-Side Economics
  • "Money Can't Buy You Love"
  • Koch Sends Pro-Romney Mailing to 45,000 Employees While Stifling Workplace Political Speech
  • Romney’s Bounce Isn’t Helping in Senate Races, Polls Show
  • As Massachusetts Governor, Romney Was Often Away
  • FACT CHECK: At The Vice Presidential Debate: Ryan Told 24 Myths In 40 Minutes
  • The Vice-President Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh
  • Democratic House Candidate's Party Affiliation Mysteriously Changes Online
  • Editorial: Obama for President: A Second Term For a Serious Man
  • Biden Won the VP Debate Show and Showed That FACTS MATTER
  • Romney is Talking Double
  • Mad Money: TV Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaigns
  • INFOGRAPHIC: Obama Vs. Romney: Issues Key to States
  • White House Race Contested in Far Fewer States Than in Past
  • The REAL Mitt Romney
  • Gubernatorial Candidates Give Opposing Views, Clear Choices
  • CANDIDATE FORUMS & RALLYS
  • Why Obama Now?
  • Report: Despite Campaign Claims, N.C. Not the Worst for Business
  • Romney’s Claim That the Navy Is As Small As In 1916
  • Truth About Jobs
  • Romney's Tax Plan Adds Up to a Middle-Class Tax Hike
  • Battleground State: Obama, Romney Tied in N.C. Polls Going Into Campaign's Final Days
  • Campaigns Use Social Media to Lure Younger Voters
  • North Carolina: A Political Mix of Old and New
  • May Primary Issues Prompt Request to Throw Out Redistricting Maps
  • News & Observer Endorsements for Judges on Court of Appeals
  • Romney's Sick Joke
  • Too Far on Voter ID
  • Elections Officials Investigate After Voter's Party Affiliation Switched (to Republican)
  • Romney's Clean Energy Whoppers (From the First Debate)
  • Dalton Gets in Gear
  • The First Debate: Mitt Romney's Five Biggest Lies
  • Dalton is Aggressor in Opening NC Governor Debate
  • The President Laid Out Specific, Concrete Plans to Go Forward; Romney Lied
  • FACTS MATTER
  • THE DEBATES: Romney's Playbook
  • GOP, Conservatives Put Greater Focus on Mail Absentee Ballots in North Carolina
  • NC GOP Fires Voter Sign-Up Firm Over Fraud in Florida
  • In North Carolina, Latino Voters Could Be Crucial To Winning The State
  • WEDNESDAY’S DEBATE: The President Will Continue Sharing His Specific Vision for Moving America Forward
  • Wednesday's Debate and ROMNEY’S MASSACHUSETTS MYTHS
  • Undecided Voters Lean From Romney Toward Obama
  • Dalton, McCrory Stake Out Positions on Energy, Environment
  • The Real Referendum
  • The Conservative Case for Obamacare
  • Romney's Private-Sector Experience WASN'T CREATING Jobs
  • There Is No Obamacare Tax On Most Home Sales. Really.
  • Romney, Obama Disagree on How to Pay for Quality Education
  • Top 10 Facts You Need to Know about Romney’s Experience as a Corporate-Buyout Specialist
  • Romney Would Shatter the Promise of Social Security
  • Tough Luck, Vets
  • 40 Days of Night
  • Swing States a Tough Sell for Romney
  • How Pat's Planning to Run Raleigh
  • Mitt Romney's Crocodile Tears
  • Romney’s Tongue-Tied Eloquence
  • GOP House Candidate Links Fundraising to Committee Assignments
  • WRAL FACT CHECK of Recent Dalton and McCrory Interviews
  • Knowns, Unknowns and Unknowables
  • West Wing Reunion on Non-Partisan Judges Elections
  • Dalton: Democrats Keep NC Pubic Education from Being Whittled Down to Sawdust
  • The Statistical State of the Presidential Race
  • McCrory Enthusiastic About Fracking, Dalton Wary of Safety
  • Deep Red Polling Mystery
  • Teachers Group Challenges McCrory
  • Editorial: Commissioner Candidate Bill Crawford is Off Topic
  • McCrory Declines to Give Details on Mammoth Tax Plan
  • Growth of Early Voting Transforms Electoral Strategy
  • Pre-registered Teen Voters Now Eligible to Make a Difference
  • Obama’s Convention Bounce May Not Be Receding
  • Obama Leads Narrowly in North Carolina
  • Candidate Forum TONIGHT (September 24th)
  • Candidates FORUM TONIGHT
  • ZOGBY POLL: Majority of Likely Voters Oppose Across-The-Board Cuts in 2013
  • What Mitt Romney Really Represents
  • Romney’s Class Warfare
  • SENIORS: Romney Thinks America’s Seniors “Believe They Are Victims”
  • Key Questions Regarding Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns
  • GOP Looks to Expand State Senate Advantage
  • 4 Pinocchios for a Truncated, 14-Year-Old Obama Clip
  • Tell Us Why You're a Democrat
  • SHAME on the Liar: Mitt Romney’s Mother Talks About His Father Being On Welfare (1963 Video)
  • Romney Angers Left and Right
  • Wilkins Seizes on Stalling Farm Bill to Swipe at Ellmers
  • Obama Ahead with Stronger Support, Better Image and Lead on Most Issues
  • First Lady: President Doesn't Take The Easy Way
  • Michelle Obama Portrays President from Personal Angle
  • Michelle Obama: Every Vote Will Count
  • Ret. Gen. Hugh Shelton Endorses Walter Dalton
  • League of Women Voters Chatham County Commissioners Candidate Forum
  • Bringing Young Americans Together to Protect the Progress We’ve Made
  • Romney Is On the Wrong Side of Every Issue Important to Latino Voters
  • Thurston Howell Romney
  • Tens of Thousands of N.C. Teens Eligible to Vote This November
  • Double Whopper, No Beef
  • Behind the ‘People Who Pay No Income Tax’
  • ROMNEY INSULTS, WRITES OFF HALF THE COUNTRY
  • Romney Calls 47% of Voters Dependent in Leaked Video
  • Romney's China Hypocracy
  • Romney Would Have to Raise Middle Class Taxes
  • Technology Helping to Create More Informed Voters
  • OUTREACH to African-American Community Especially Critical
  • Is North Carolina Losing Its Once-Lofty Perch?
  • Challenged on Medicare, G.O.P. Loses Ground
  • Administration Warns of 'Destructive' Budget Cuts
  • Romney's Foreign Policy Fumble Getting Notice in Battle Ground States
  • Tax Rates, Breaks Take Center Stage in Gubernatorial rRce
  • Dalton Takes More Aggressive Stance as Election Looms
  • Romney Hits New Low in Libya Remarks
  • NC Supreme Court: Newby-Ervin Race Has Far-Reaching Implications
  • Romney Takes Hits From Fellow Republicans
  • A Challenger’s Criticism Is Furiously Returned
  • Democrats Say McCrory's "Feet" Raises Ethical Question
  • Romney Needed 10 Years of Tax Returns to Choose His Running Mate
  • Repeal, Really?
  • Romney's Favorite Stimulus
  • YET ANOTHER Deliberately Deceptive Romney Ad
  • Walter Dalton for NC Governor
  • Romney-Ryan Tax Breaks Require Raising Taxes for Middle Class
  • Obama's Real, Achievable Plan to Move America Forward
  • Randy Voller's reply to GOP Chair Jim Duncan's OP-ED in the Chatham Record
  • Romney Camp Seeks to Head Off Post-Convention Anxieties
  • Cleaning Up the Economy
  • The Politics of the Culture Wars
  • Take a Look at the Chatham County (NC) Democratic Party
  • North Carolina Remains Extremely Tight
  • A Tight Election May Be Tangled in Legal Battles
  • Romney Struggles in Battleground States
  • Walton Dalton's Job Plan Released Today
  • The Ryan Sinkhole
  • KEY POINTS: President Obama's Acceptance Speech on 09/06/2012
  • "We're All in This Together"
  • In North Carolina, Latinos Gain in Political Importance
  • Democrat Compares GOP Tactics to Nazi Propaganda
  • [VIDEO] Gov. Perdue Warns of ‘Coat Hangers in the Bath Tub’ if Pro-Life Movement Gets Its Way
  • National Democratic Party Platform 2012
  • Chris Hayes MSNBC Examines Obama and the Unions
  • Charlotte 2012 Will Connect Americans Nationwide with President Obama’s Vision for Moving Our Country Forward
  • Dome: New Report Suggests Latino Vote Undercounted in N.C.
  • Risky Romney
  • WHEREFORE ART THOU, MITT ROMNEY?
  • Republican Women for Obama
  • The Medicare Killers
  • Fact checking Mitt Romney’s Acceptance Speech at the GOP Convention
  • Facts Take a Beating in Acceptance Speeches
  • The GOP’s Steady Diet of Whoppers
  • Public Letter to the Editor by Ted Dunn
  • Mr. Romney Reinvents History
  • Walter Dalton: "25 Small Towns"
  • Mr. Ryan’s Misleading Speech
  • Students Target Pope's Stores to Protest His 'Poisonous Agenda'
  • Dalton Makes Ethics Pitch
  • Sen. Bernie Saunders on the Deficit Hawk Hypocrites
  • POLL WATCH: Christie's New Jersey Goes for Obama
  • Boehner Says Out Loud He Hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Won't Show Up' This Election
  • On YouTube: From Episode 10 of "The Newsroom" by Aaron Sorkin
  • House Republicans Deemed Not Ready for Convention’s Prime Time
  • Women's Issues at RNC: SC Governor Weighs In
  • Republican National Convention: The One Graph You Need to See Before Watching
  • GOP Convention: Will Ryan & Rice Tell Americans Hard Truths?
  • Romney Is Lying Through His Big White Teeth
  • CNN/TIME Poll: Obama Has 2 Point Lead on Romney in N.C.
  • Republicans Steal Medicare from the Democrats
  • Dalton Campaign Signs and Buttons
  • Ho Much MORE Will Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan Cost You?
  • Fight for Women's Vote Defines Presidential Race
  • Romney's Road to Tampa
  • GOP Federal Election Commissioners: Corporations Can Compel Employees To Campaign For Political Candidates
  • Inside the Plan to Steal the (2012) Election
  • Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: The Do-Over - ConventionReinvention.com
  • Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist: Here's why I'm backing Barack Obama
  • So, Mitt, What Do You Really Believe?
  • Republican / Teapublican: Our Way or No Way!
  • Mitt Romney's Record in N.C.: A Mix of Profits, Jobs and Layoffs
  • 2012 "Blues in the Garden" Pittsboro Obama Fundraiser
  • RESOURCE GRAPHS on the U.S. Economy Under Democrats and Republicans
  • Democratic Poll Suggests That Ellmers is Undefined and Vulnerable
  • Romney: Big Business is Fine, Helped by Tax Havens
  • Candidates Differ on Funding NC Education
  • McCrory Has Some Questions to Answer
  • A Storm the GOP Didn't Expect
  • Paul Ryan’s ‘Legitimate Problem’
  • Despite Fact Checks, Romney Escalates Welfare Work Requirement Charge
  • Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred
  • The Koch Brothers Go to Hollywood
  • The Fanatical GOP
  • President Clinton Highlights the Clear Choice between President Obama’s & Romney's Economic Plans
  • What the G.O.P. Platform Represents
  • A Message From Sandra Fluke RE: "Legitimate Rape"
  • RESERVE THE DATES: Tuesdays at The Pittsboro Roadhouse & General Store
  • Is Republican Legislation Harmful to Women?
  • The Facts About ObamaCare, September 15!
  • MEDICARE: Romney-Ryan Would Turn Medicare into a Voucher Program
  • Education Key Issue in North Carolina Governor's Race
  • Health Experts Dismiss Assertions on Rape
  • Romney’s Right: Obamacare Cuts Medicare by $716 Billion. Here’s How.
  • Soledad O'Brien Schools Republican Rep. Claiming Ryan Medicare Plan "not vouchers"
  • The Real Medicare Question
  • POLITIFACT: Do Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Want to Turn Medicare into a Voucher Program?
  • Paul Ryan and Women
  • Choice of Paul Ryan Shifts the Focus From Economy to Ideology
  • Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan Budget That Romney Supports Is a ‘Fraud’
  • 10 Reasons Paul Ryan is Worse for Romney than Palin was for McCain
  • Foxx Questions Pat McCrory's Commitment to Public Schools
  • Obama's Campaign More Wired Than Romney's
  • Romney-Ryan Plan Would End Medicare As We Know It
  • Dalton Jabs McCrory on Incentives and Community Colleges
  • Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan
  • This Video MIGHT Stop Romney From Becoming President
  • Paul Ryan Shakes up the Electoral Map
  • Romney and Ryan’s Disdain for the Working Class
  • Romney Can’t Walk Back His Support for Romney-Ryan Budget
  • Election Day Impersonation, an Impetus for Voter ID Laws, a Rarity, Data Show
  • Romney-Backed Solar Company Fails Days After He Faulted Solyndra
  • The Backfire of the Tea Party's Push of Republicans to the Far Right
  • Scotts Miracle-Gro Goes Out on a Limb with Political Donation
  • Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: The Go Back Team
  • OBAMA CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON ROMNEY VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK
  • Gubernatorial Debates Set for Same Nights as Presidential Debates
  • The Third-Party Candidate Who Could Derail Mitt Romney
  • Southern White Democrats Face End of Era in Congress
  • Economic Worries Number One Issue for Most Active NC Voters
  • The Hard Choices for the GOP in Real Budget Math
  • Walter Walton for North Carolina Governor
  • ILLUSTRATION: The Irrationality of Key Drivers of the So-Called "Birthers"
  • WELFARE REFORM: Romney's Latest Ad is Hypocritical and False
  • FACT CHECK: Obama NOT Trying to Curb Military Early Voting
  • What Impact Will Health Care Have on 2012 State Election?
  • Early Voters Gain Influence in Races
  • Jordan, NBA Players to Raise Money for Obama
  • AFP Makes Anti-Obama Strategy Explicit
  • Obama Sightly Ahead in NC
  • Where is the Moral Outrage?
  • 'Obamacare' Fixes Some Problems
  • GOP Senators Press IRS on Rule Changes
  • Tillis, McCrory Already Behind the Scenes Planning for GOP Transition
  • New Poll Shows McCrory's Lead Shrinking
  • Repeal's Cost
  • Built "This Business" (And All Others) With Lots of Public Support
  • Dalton Campaign Rolls Into Wilson NC
  • TV Stations Begin Publishing Political Ad Spending
  • Dome: Dalton Pledges Fewer Political Cronies, Urges McCrory to Do Likewise
  • My $2,000
  • Pew: Obama Has Big Lead; Romney Favorability Drops (Updated)
  • MITTAmerica: How Romney Wants to Pay for the Republican $5 Trillilon Tax Cuts
  • Plan Like Romney’s Would Tax Rich Less
  • Capitalism, Not Culture, Drives Economies
  • Whiplash-Mitt Romney Lavishes Praise On Israel's Socialist, Government Controlled Healthcare System
  • McCrory: Read My Lips
  • Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years'
  • New Polls Show Obama Has Edge in 3 Battleground States
  • Mike Papantonio: The Psychology of Republican Voters
  • Romney's International Missteps
  • Romney's Foreign Policy: Not Ready for Prime Time
  • INFOGRAPHIC: Wow, If I Didn't Know Better, I'd Think Our Government Doesn't Want People To Vote
  • The Morman Candidate: BBC Documentary on Mitt Romney (March 2012)
  • Republican Congressman Blasts GOP: Party Caters To ‘Extremes,’ Is ‘Incapable Of Governing’
  • Letter: McCrory Wrong About Charter Schools
  • Follow North Carolina Political Money
  • Romney Aide to Reporters: 'Shove it!'
  • Obama Campaign Rolls Out Phone App
  • Tea Party Retools as Network of Field Operatives, Keeps Pushing GOP Rightward
  • Bachmann's Former Campaign Chief -- Shame on You, Michele
  • Man in The Middle One Determined Centrist, Alas, Will Not Make For a Less Partisan Senate
  • Israel: Romney, Walking Gaffe-Man, Insults America's Mid-East Allies
  • House Republicans Perpetuate Voter Fraud Myth, Fine With Disenfranchising Voters
  • 100 Days To Go: Tight Race, Defining Moments Left
  • Christensen: $38M Talks, But Voters Are Tired of Listening
  • Charlotte in 2012 Releases New CarolinaFest 2012 Details
  • NCAE Leaders Line Up Behind Dalton
  • Election Day Will Simply Be Too Late to Fight Back Against Voter Suppression
  • Tuesday July 31, 2012 Is An Important Fundraising Deadline
  • Black Voters Are Key to NC Presidential Election
  • Budget Office: Obama's Health Law Reduces Deficit
  • Obama Keeps Lead as Voter Anxiety Rises
  • President Obama Speaks to the VFW, Continuing to Honor Our Sacred Trust with Those Who Serve and Sacrifice for Our Nation
  • President Obama’s Belief in the Drive and Ingenuity of American Entrepreneurs and Workers
  • Explosive Romney News
  • Romney's Hidden Tax Returns
  • Many Questions from Justices on (Redistricting) Map Records
  • Obama Holding Serve in the Upper South
  • Is it Time for Moderate N.C. Democratic Congressmen to Switch Parties?
  • Mitt Romney's Offshore Bank Accounts and Tax Returns
  • Democratic Runoff For Labor Commissioner
  • McCrory Campaign Amasses $4.4 million
  • How Obama Can Really Hurt the GOP: Focus on Its Radical Economic Plan
  • Larry Kissel's Health Care Stance Prompts Black Backers to Pull Support
  • Why You Should Vote for Obama
  • Contasting Obama's Economic Philosopy with Romney's
  • McCrory's Lead Over Dalton Narrows
  • The Party of "WE" vs. The Party of "ME"
  • Poll Finds Support for Health-Care Law on the Rise
  • Obama Campaign’s Fundraising Challenge
  • More Than Half of U.S. Latinos Are Political Independents
  • Penalty vs. Tax: What Did a Romney Advisor Mean?
  • Dark Money: Will Secret Spending By a Group of Billionaires Decide the 2012 Election?
  • Early Voting Begins for NC Second Primary
  • Dalton and McCrory Deadlocked in Governor's Race
  • The Affordable Care Act and North Carolina
  • Mitt Romney and Republicans in Congress Want to Keep Refighting the Political Battles of the Past
  • HEALTH REFORM: Supreme Court Affirms Americans’ Right to Quality, Affordable Health Care;
  • Walter Dalton Intensifies Rhetoric on State Budget, Calls for Perdue Veto
  • Save $0.18 and Impede NC Elections
  • Vice President Biden Highlights Mitt Romney’s History of Shipping American Jobs Overseas
  • Romney Economics: Over 1,000 Fee Hikes
  • Pat McCrory Won't Tell
  • NC Police Benevolent Association Endorses Dalton
  • 24 Fees Mitt Romney Tried To Raise In Massachusetts
  • Middle Class Could Face Higher Taxes Under Republican Plan, Analysis Finds
  • Christensen: N.C. Politics Could Be Making a Hard Right
  • Trickle Down is Bunk: Romney's Plan is Reverse Robin Hood
  • TWO VISIONS, TWO PATHS: President Obama Will Move Us Forward and Mitt Romney Would Take Us Backward
  • Dalton Endorsed by NCAE for Governor
  • Elizabeth Warren's Got It Right on the Economy!
  • Hey, Tea Party...
  • McCrory's Short Leash
  • McCrory Challenged from Above
  • Once Moderate, McCrory Sides with Tea Partyers in Opposition to Agenda 21
  • The President’s Jobs Plan Will Grow Our Economy
  • Dalton Accuses McCrory of Pandering to Tea Party on Growth
  • Republicans Look South for Help in Tough North Carolina Race
  • The Truth on OBAMA Spending
  • Dalton Rips Big Tax Break for Business, McCrory Calls for Broader Reform
  • Tilted Bench
  • TIME Magazine's Coverage of Steve Wilkins (NC Congressional District 2)
  • This Republican Economy
  • Donald, You’re Fired! Trump Repeats False Claims About Obama's Birthplace
  • Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan Budget That Romney Supports Is a 'Fraud'
  • New Super PAC Gets Involved in Supreme Court Race to Back Newby
  • Romney Economics Didn’t Work Then and It Won’t Work Now
  • Romney on Education
  • Donald Trump to Speak at NC GOP Convention
  • GOP Groups Plan Record $1 bBllion Blitz
  • Conservatives Used to Care About Community. What Happened?
  • Perdue’s Budget Would Help Schools; Lawmakers Say Sales Tax Hike to Make it Work Not Likely
  • The REAL Pat McCrory
  • NC House Dems Outline Their Agenda
  • McCrory and Dalton Offer Sharply Different Vsions for N.C.
  • Republican Officials End Relationship With Adviser Tied to Ad Proposal
  • Obama Explaining the Job of President in Building an Economy
  • Progress NC Action Calls for McCrory to Fire Campaign Spokesman
  • Campaign Stops: The Third Party Fantasy
  • Register to VOTE in NC
  • Romney Would Run the Country as He Ran Bain Capital, and the Middle Class Would Suffer
  • Democrats Target Romney's Record at Bain Capital
  • Long Term Unemployment 1969 - 2011
  • Huffington Post 2012 Presidential Election Map
  • GOP Ad Attacking Democrat Walter Dalton Distorts Truth
  • Romney Campaign Forced to Downplay Job Creation Claims
  • John Boehner Threatens To Take America Hostage In Second Debt Showdown
  • Robert Reich Explains How Mitt Romney Got Obscenely Rich
  • Legislature to Take Up Controversial Social Issues in May Session
  • Support Education: She Speaks for Many Believers (And She Votes)
  • Barry Goldwater’s War Against The Religious Right
  • Romney vs. Romney
  • God, Amendment One, and Romney's Campaign Last Week
  • A Showdown: Here We Go Again
  • ENERGY: Mitt Romney Takes Money from Big Oil and Does Its Bidding
  • ENERGY: Mitt Romney Takes Money from Big Oil and Does Its Bidding
  • We Need a Job-Creating Economy Built to Last Where We Make Things the Rest of the World Buys
  • CAMPAIGN TRACKING RESOURCES
  • Mitt Romney’s Prep School Classmates Recall Pranks, But Also Troubling Incidents
  • Franklin Graham: Obama is Shaking His Fist at God
  • Obama Citicizes Romney as 'Backwards on Equality'
  • Los Angeles Times Coverage: North Carolina Passes Ban on Gay Marriage = Much More
  • Key 2012 Democratic Primary Winners
  • NC Amendment One Passes
  • NC Gubernatorial Candidate Last Minute Poll Coverage
  • FINAL NC PRIMARY POLL: PUBLIC POLICY POLLING
  • BE PREPARED FOR SOME POSSIBLE CONFUSION AT THE POLLING PLACE
  • Culture Wars: Episode 2 – Attack Of The Homosexuals Or ‘How To Pick Apart Conservative Talking Points About Same Sex Marriage’
  • New Secretive Group Admits It Is Going To ‘Swiftboat’ President Obama On National Security
  • 20 Historical Facts That Republicans Distort Or Just Get Plain Wrong
  • Editorial: Out in the Open
  • Editorial - State Constitution Should Not be Used to Promote Discrimination
  • VOTE NO on Amendment One May 08, 2012
  • Congresswoman Ellmers Wants Her Cake and to Eat it Too
  • Video Outlines How Far We’ve Come, and Where We’re Going: Forward
  • Obama Believes We Need to Create Long-Term Economic Growth & Women's Economic Security
  • Possible Voter Identification Law May Alter Voting Process
  • Romney Foreign Policy Spokesman Quits
  • Marriage Amendment Still Leads by 14
  • WRAL News Poll Points to McCrory, Dalton Race for Governor
  • The South's ALEC All-Stars
  • A GOP Witch Hunt for the Zombie Voter
  • NORTH CAROLINA FAMILY LAW PROFESSORS SPEAK OUT AGAINST AMENDMENT ONE
  • Regardless of the Impacts, Amendment One Is Wrong
  • Vote No On Amendment, Strike Blow Against Bigotry
  • Money Totals for Lead Groups in Amendment Fight
  • Dem Governor Candidates Tout Money, Supporters
  • In New Video, President Clinton Discusses Operation that Led to the Killing of Bin Laden
  • 5 McCrory Donors Referred to DA for Possible Prosecution
  • Why So Many Conservatives Oppose the Amendment
  • Amendment a Muddled Mess
  • Bigotry on the Ballot
  • Democrats Compete For Lt. Governor Nomination
  • Obama Campaign Grapples With New Voter ID Laws
  • Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans Are The Problem.
  • On The Million-Dollar Trail Of A Mystery SuperPAC Donor
  • The Koch Brothers, Super PACs, and Bundlers
  • How Would Amendment One affect Your Life?
  • Legislative Champion for Amendment One Says He'll "Vote Against"
  • Charles Thomas, N.C. Speaker's Top Aide, Linked to Lobbyist
  • 24 Policies That Republicans Supported BEFORE They Were Against Them
  • Currently Featured 2012 Election Links
  • Track the Presidential Polls
  • THE MITT ROMNEY EDUCATION PLAN
  • The Facts About Amendment One - 2 Minute Review
  • Swing-State Unemployment Down, Obama's Chances Up
  • Obama to Discuss Student Loan Debt at UNC
  • Confused About Early Voting? NC Hotline Can Help
  • Amendment Opponents Say It Threatens Domestic Violence Protections
  • Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama By-Pass Rivals
  • Dr. William Barber, NC NAACP President, Speaks Against Amendment One
  • Concern in G.O.P. Over State Focus on Social Issues
  • New District Maps Toughen Democrats’ Race for House
  • REAL IDEAS
  • WRAL-TV -- The First 2012 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary Debate
  • $20 for '12 Raffle - Fundraiser for Chatham County Democratic Party
  • Romney Speech in Charlotte To Rehash His Same, Failed Economic Policies of the Past
  • Chatham County (NC) Democratic Party AMENDMENT 1 PRESS RELEASE
  • GOP Hopeful Newt Gingrich Cuts Interview Short with UNC Student
  • Pundits Offer Their Take on Week's First Debate
  • Bev Perdue: "Women Have to be Vigilant"
  • Amendment One: No time for Moderation, Moderates
  • 2012 DEMOCRATIC NC GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY ELECTION DEBATES
  • The Republican Alphabet
  • RomneyCare, the Massachusetts Health Care Overhaul That Became the Model for ObamaCare
  • Romney Waffles on Ledbetter, Isn’t Willing to Stand Up For Women and Their Families
  • HPU Poll: Obama Edges Out Republican Rivals on Personal Attributes Important to N.C. Residents
  • ‘Super PAC,’ Eyeing General Election, Aims Blitz at Obama
  • Forum: Primary Election (Open to Public)
  • MITT ROMNEY versus REALITY
  • Stand with President Obama Against Radical Republican Budget
  • American Energy Alliance Falsely Claiming Obama Actively Trying to Make Gas Prices Higher
  • 40 Quotes Demonstrating The Conservative Values Republicans Want To Destroy America With
  • Romney Alienates Women, Losing Among Women By More Than 18 Percent
  • Tillis is Right, So Let’s Leave the State Constitution Alone
  • Democratic Candidates for Governor Bash McCrory, GOP
  • Celinda Lake: North Carolina Anti-Amendment-One Win Could Change the LGBT Rights Movement Forever
  • Rep. Paul Ryan Endorsed Mitt Romney – Both Are Bad for the Middle Class
  • Republicans Tampered With Court Audio in Obama Attack Ad
  • BLOOMBERG: OFF THE CHARTS
  • North Carolinians Support, But Don't Understand Marriage Amendment
  • Pat McCrory’s Education Plan Ducks the Hardest Challenges
  • FACT CHECK: Inflated Claims in North Carolina Budget Battle
  • President Obama Calls on Congress to Repeal $4 Billion Oil and Gas Subsidy
  • Obama Campaign Now on Pinterest
  • 10 Reasons to Vote Against Amendment One
  • Anti-Gay Marriage Group Recommends Creating Tension Between Gays and Blacks
  • Tillis: If Amendment One Passes, It Will Be Repealed (in 20 Years)
  • Church Leaders Speak Out Against Amendment One
  • (VIDEO) North Carolina Political Figures Speak Out Against Amendment One
  • Will NC Renew Commitment to Education?
  • WRAL News poll: Voters Give GOP-Led Legislature Thumbs Down
  • WRAL News Poll: Santorum Leads GOP Field in NC
  • House Republicans Gamble With Election-Year Entitlements
  • White House Slams GOP Budget PLan
  • NBC-17 to Host Democratic Gubernatorial Debate April 18
  • Are Republicans Ready To Be Trusted With The Reins Of Power?
  • Obama Opposes N.C. Marriage Amendment Proposal
  • Deceptive Special Interest Ad Cannot Hide GOP Record On Education Cuts, Fee Hikes
  • NC Lt. Governor Walter Dalton Interviewed by WFMY TV2
  • The Obama Energy Agenda: Gas Prices
  • Barack Obama's Record on Jobs
  • OBAMA: The Road We Traveled (Forthcoming Documentary)
  • Our Dependence on Foreign Oil Is Declining
  • NC Pays More for New Voting Maps
  • NC Democratic Candidates Agree to Numerous Debates
  • Voter ID Bill Would Create Problems at Polls
  • AMENDMENT ONE FALSEHOODS (FAITH)
  • RE: Zach Wahls Speaks About Family
  • An Election Primer for 2012 Races in North Carolina
  • NC House Speaker Tillis: "Divide & Conquer!"
  • Why Republicans Are Fighting to Repeal Obama's Medicare Cost Cutting Board
  • Ellmers Ranks 15th Most Conservative in U.S. House
  • Perdue on CNN: Proud of Record & Democrats, Pledges a Continued Fight, and Slams Republicans
  • Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on CBS "Face the Nation"
  • Sen. Kay Hagan Opposes NC Amendment One
  • Amendment One is a Family Matter
  • Made in America - Obama for America 2012
  • Comparing President Obama's and Mitt Romney's Business Tax Plans
  • Thank You From Senator Bob Atwater
  • President Obama in Osawatomie, Kans.
  • Is This the End of Market Democracy?
  • GOP Lawmakers Sitting on Election Money for North Carolina
  • Moochers Against Welfare
  • Barack Obama's Campaign Names a North Carolina "Truth Team"
  • Dems Wary of NC GOP Vow
  • Lively Political Season Begins in North Carolina
  • The GOP Scrambles for a Bogeyman
  • VIDEO: U.S. Rep. Gutierrez Rebuffs Gingrich's 'Food Stamp President' Claim About President Obama
  • Doing the Math on Obama's Deficits
  • GRAPH: Who Increased the National Debt?
  • NC State Party of NO Signals It Still Can't Say YES
  • Governor Perdue's Exclusive Interview with WRAL-TV
  • Teens Work Together for New Voters
  • Obama to Draw an Economic Economic Line in State of the Union
• Action Alerts (36)
  • Hold NC Lawmakers Accountable for Blocking Medicaid Expansion
  • Challenging Times for North Carolina
  • FIGHT BBACK! HELP Elizabeth Colbert Busch Win the South Carolina Special Election for the US Senate!
  • Donate to BOSTON ONE Fund
  • Make Calls From Home: Protect Voting Rights
  • What Do You Have to Say to Congress?
  • A New Land Use Plan for Chatham County?
  • Two Chatham Park Investors Public Meetings: April 16th & 23rd
  • TUESDAY, April 16: Demand Senate Take Action on Background Checks
  • Save Democracy in North Carolina
  • Protect Our Right to Vote in NC!
  • Tell House Republicans: Don't Destroy Medicare!
  • NC House Leaders Asking for Your Advice
  • Medical Expansion Petition to NC Legislature & Gov. McCrory
  • Tell Republicans To Do Their Jobs and Stop The Sequeste
  • Coal, Nukes and Fracking? Renewables and Energy-Saving? You Can Help Decide
  • NC SENATE BILL 10 [SB10] Unprecedented Power Grab
  • Shame on (Eric) Cantor
  • Support Vice President Bidnen's and President Obama's Gun Control Policies
  • Tell McCrory: Expand Medicaid in NC
  • Speak Up Now Against NC Voter ID
  • Tell House Republicans It's Time to Take Action on Gun Violence
  • Deadline January 24 - Tell the Obama Administration: Do Not Export Fracked Gas
  • Boehner’s Latest Offer to President Obama
  • Call Now: Help Stop Medicare Cuts
  • Help the President by Picking Up the Phone
  • PETITION: I SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT's TAX PLAN
  • Petition to Congress: Please Extend the Wind Energy Tax Credits
  • Stand With President Obama
  • PETITION ALERT: A Note from Senator-Elect Elizabeth Warren, (D-MA)
  • PETITION: An End to Gerrymandering
  • ACTION ALERT from VoteVets.org
  • CREDO Action: Tell the SEC: Don't Let Corporations Hide Their Political Spending.
  • A CREDO ACTION ALERT on Recent Keystone Pipeline Vote
  • Absolutely No Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security Benefits
  • The Voter Update
• Summaries County Commissioners Meetings (35)
  • Summary of May 6, 2013 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of April 15, 2013 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of March 18, 2013 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of March 12, 2013 Commissioners Special Meeting
  • Summary of February 13, 2013 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of February 04, 2013 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of January 22, 2013 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of December 17, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of December 03, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of November 19, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of October 15, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of September 17, 2012 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of August 20, 2012 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of July 16, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of June 18, 2012 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of June 04, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of May 21, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of May 07, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of April 16, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of March 19, 2012 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of February 20, 2012 Commissioners Meetings
  • CCDP 2011 Board of Commissioners Voting Scorecard
  • Summary of January 17, 2012 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of January 03, 2012 Commissioner Meetings
  • Summary of December 05, 2011 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of November 21, 2011 Commissioner Meetings
  • Summary of November 7, 2011 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of October 03, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of September 6, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of September 19, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of August 01, 2011 Commissioners Meetings
  • Summary of August 15, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of July 18, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of June 20, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
  • Summary of June 06, 2011 Commissioners Meeting
• Fracking News (111)
  • NOTES: May 17, 2013 Fracking, Compulsory Pooling Study Group
  • Fears of Fracked Gas Piplined Into New York City
  • Notes: April 2013 Fracking, Compulsory Pooling & Local Govt Study Groups
  • April 5, 2013 Mining & Energy (Fracking) Commission Notes
  • NEWS of April 4, 2013 meetings of Three MEC (FRancking) committees
  • FREE PANEL Seminar on Fracking in NC
  • March 8, 2013 Mining & Energy (Fracking) Commission Notes
  • Fracking Nightmare in PA, and It's Not the Only Place
  • Notes, March 7, 2013, MEC (Fracking), Four Committees
  • March 22, 2013 Fracking, Compulsory Pooling & Local Govt Study Groups
  • The Andes Chronicles: A Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
  • A Must Read Account of Fracking in Colorado
  • Notes Mar 1, 2013 Fracking, Compulsory Pooling Study Group
  • WUNC-FM on March 5th: WV & PA Mines Filling with Fracking Water
  • February 08, 2013 Meeting Fracking, Complusory Poolong Study Committee
  • The "Fracking Bill" is Even Worse Than It Souunds
  • Greasing the Wheels to Push Ahead With Fracking
  • January 25, 2013, Mining & Energy (Fracking) Commission Notes
  • Four Mining & Energy Commission (MEC) Committees Met January 24, 2013
  • Hundreds Rally in NY: 'Not One Fracking Well'
  • Can a Small Community Throw a Monkey Wrench Into a Global Fracking Machine?
  • How the North Dakota Fracking Boom Shook a Family
  • RESOURCE: Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations
  • Report on December 18, 2012 Meeting of MEC's Local Government Regulation Study Group
  • Notes on January 16, 2013 Mining & Energy Commission's Local Government Study Group Meeting
  • Notes on January 11, 2013 MEC Compulsory Pooling Study Group
  • Jan 13 2013 Notes on MEC (Fracking) Commission's Compulsory Pooling Study Group
  • Land Owners in Chatham & Lee Who May Be Affected by Future Fracking
  • RESOURCE: FrackFreeNC.org
  • Dec 18, 2012, Four MEC Committees and Compulsory Pooling Study Group
  • Bill Ritter, former Governor, State of Colorado Presentation at December 19, 2012 Meeting of MEC
  • Have You Lost Your Mineral Rights?
  • December 19, 2012 MEC (Fracking) Commission Meeting
  • Forthcoming Anti-Fracking Hollowood Movie
  • Statement on Fracking: Association of American State Geologists
  • Fracking Our Food Supply
  • PETITION: Keep NC Fracking Free
  • Fracking Sand May Pose Health Hazard To Workers, Residents
  • Fracking and Radioactivity: Radium Unbound
  • Highlights of November 02, 2012 Mining & Energy Commission-Fracking Organizational Meeting
  • Six NC Lawmakers Take Texas Fracking Tour
  • A Checkup for Natural Gas
  • Gas Drilling Jitters Unsettle Catskills Sales
  • ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair With Fracking
  • Get It Right on Gas
  • Critics: Sanford Man Doesn't Belong on Gas Drilling Board
  • Rushing to Frack
  • North Carolina Speaker of the House, Thom Tillis, Celebrates Independence Day by saying “Frack You” to Democracy
  • North Carolina Governor Rejects Fracking Law
  • Kathleen Hundley Editorial on Fracking
  • OPEN LETTER TO Gov. Perdue from Randy Voller, Pittsboro Mayor
  • Fracking Resolution Pasee at State NCDP Convention on Saturday, June 16, 2012
  • ANTI-FRACKING PETITION On-line
  • Open Letter to All North Carolina State Senators on Fracking
  • Could Some of the Air – or Natural Gas – be Coming Out of the Fracking Balloon?
  • Fracking Debate Fuels Campaign Gifts to Lawmakers
  • Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Fracking 'Gag Rule'
  • Estimates Lowered on N.C.'s Natural Gas Supply
  • Fracking in North Carolina Could Carry Extra Risks
  • Vermont First State to Ban Fracking
  • Fracking Bill Advances in N.C. Legislature
  • Fracking Update From Clean Water for North Carolina
  • To Make Fracturing Safer (NYT Editorial)
  • Sen. Rucho's Fast Track to Fracking
  • NC DENR Shale Gas Report Appendix G: Summary of Public Comments
  • Can Natural Gas Help Stop Global Warming?
  • Durham County Commissioners Back Study Before Fracking
  • GOT GAS? Seems We May Have Too Much Despite the Rush to Frack!
  • Does a Developer's Sale of Mineral Rights to an Energy Company Foreshadow Fracking?
  • Presentation by John Wagner at Fracking Public Hearing in Sanford, NC March 2012
  • Editorial: Best Way - Lee County Board Takes a Sober Look at Fracking
  • Party Chair Randy Voller Speaks at State Fracking Hearings
  • Concern for Environment Voiced at Meeting on ‘Fracking’
  • NPR: New Study Fuels Hydraulic Fracking Debate
  • Rep. Hackney, Sen. Atwater Bring Hearing on “Fracking” to Chatham
  • Aqua America Gives 32 Families The Boot
  • Fracking Proponents, Opponents Heard at Hearing
  • State Hearings Began (Tuesday, March 20, 2012) on Fracking in NC
  • NC Fracking Study Nears Completion
  • UPCOMING FRACKING HEARINGS
  • VIDEO: Josh Fox on the Keystone XL Pipeline Project
  • ‘Gasland’ Filmmaker Arrested at Capitol Hearing
  • MAP: North Carolina Shale Deposits + A Report on Fracking Firestorm
  • Beyond Hype, a Closer Look at New York’s Choice on Shale Gas
  • PUBLIC TALK: To Frac or Not to Frac? Risks and Rewards of Natural Gas Production from Shale
  • Disposal Haulted at Well After New Quake in Ohio
  • Public Letter by Bert Bowe to the Commissioners on Fracking
  • Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush
  • OPINION: Fracking Q&A in the News & Observer
  • DUKE Workshop: Environmental and Social Implications of Hydraulic Fracturing
  • E.P.A. Links Tainted Water in Wyoming to Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas
  • Learning Too Late of the Perils in Gas Well Leases
  • Residents Ask for a Slow Down on NC Gas Study
  • Tests to Assess Future Fracking
  • Hydraulic Fracturing Brings Money and Problems to Pennsylvania
  • Rush to Drill for Natural Gas Creates Mortgage Conflicts
  • Nov. 18, 2011 Final Report from Natural Gas Subcommittee of US Dept. of Energy Advisory Board
  • N.C. Lawmakers' Trips to Fracking Sites Draw Skepticism
  • Ownership of Lee County Natural Gas Rights Muddled
  • Farmers Warn of Shale Gas Drilling
  • Google Map Reveals Massive GEOTHERMAL Potential Nationwide
  • Shale Gas Means Money, Plenty of Water Worries
  • November 10, 2011 Fracking Program
  • October 10, 2011 NCDENR Hearing on Fracking
  • An Open Letter to Commissioner Stewart
  • County Commissioners Discussed Fracking at September 06th Meeting
  • Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake?
  • PA Farmers Speak on How Fracking Impacted Their Lives
  • Free Fracking Bewareness Event on July 19th
  • Duke Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking
  • GASLAND: 2010 Documentary About Fracking
• Immigration Issues (13)
  • Republicans Introduce Legislation To Discriminate Against Non-English Speakers
  • Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony by Jose Antonio Vargas
  • The Insanely Confusing Path to Legal Immigration, in One Chart
  • Support the President's Plan for Immigration Reform
  • Biggest Challenge to Immigration Bill May Be Guest Workers
  • Mitt Romney’s Immigration Incoherence
  • The GOP's Muddled Message on Immigration
  • Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.
  • President's Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Azizona v. United States
  • NC Still Eyes Tougher Stance on Illegal Immigration
  • Ending a Cruel Immigration Twist
  • Testimony Urging County Commissioners to Withdraw Their “Law Enforcement Resolution”
  • Chatham County Should Not Participate in ICE's Secure Communities Strategy
• National Issues (121)
  • How Austerity Kills
  • Sign Your Name to Support Obamacare
  • Who Can Take Republicans Seriously?
  • An Open Leter to Sen. Burr: No Excuses
  • House of Un-Representatives
  • ALEC - The American Legislative Exchange Council - Explained in 5 Minutes
  • Elizabeth Warren on President Obama's Chained CPI Proposal
  • Rand Paul Rewrites Himself and His Father
  • Elizabeth Colbert-Busch Blows Out a Desperate Mark Sanford in South Carolina Debate
  • Meet the Grad Student Who Upended the GOP
  • Startling Sea Level Rise Video
  • The 1 Percent’s Solution
  • Now The Koch Brothers Want To Buy Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Et Al, To 'Make Sure Our Voice Is Heard'
  • A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent
  • The C.I.A's Angry Birds
  • How Conservatives Invented “Voter Fraud” To Attack Civil Rights
  • Lawrence Lessig's TED Talk: Restoring Our Lost Republic (Restoring Our Democracy)
  • The Racket With Standardized Test Scores
  • Equal Love = Equal Rights: Why Marriage Equality is Vital
  • Lessons From a Comeback
  • The GOP’s Three Fiscal Lies
  • Imagine A World (Even a North Carolina) Without Hate
  • House Approves Resolution to Keep Government Running; Bill Heads to White House
  • Wealth Inequality in America
  • Government Reports 236,000 Jobs For February, Far Over Estimates. Unemployment Rate Slips to 7.7%
  • The Market Speaks
  • #GOPSequester: 98 Percent of What They Wanted
  • The Political Forces Behind the Attack on the Voting Rights Act
  • Victims of Gun Violence Deserve a Vote!
  • Sequester of Fools
  • Why Taxes Have to Go Up
  • America Faces More Than a Dozen Deadlines, All Caused by Billionaires and Wealth Transfer
  • Fiscal Trouble Ahead for Most Future Retirees
  • President Obama Talks About Reducing Gun Violence, Fatherhood at Hyde Park Academy
  • The Secret to Fixing Bad Schools
  • Rubio and the Zombies
  • Downton and Downward
  • Meet The Shady Secret Money Group Helping The NRA Buy Up Judges And Attorneys General
  • Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
  • In Healthcare, We’re # Last
  • The GOP Plan to Flush Your State’s Economy Down the Toilet
  • GOP Senator Peddles Debunked Misinformation On Gun Violence
  • The Ignorance Caucus
  • Waiting Times at Ballot Boxes Draw Scrutiny
  • More Than 40% of Americans Are One Crisis and Less Than 90 Days from Poverty
  • Three States Pushing ALEC Bill To Require Teaching Climate Change Denial In Schools
  • ‘Fundamentally Unfair’: How States Tax The Richest 1 Percent At Half The Rate Of The Poor
  • Makers, Takers, Fakers
  • Rig tthe Vote
  • Obama's Big Deal
  • GOP Memo Brags Party Kept the House by Gerrymandering
  • The NRA and Koch-Backed ALEC Have Fought Gun Buyback Programs Across Country
  • Birch Society Republicans: America Now Has Three Major Political Parties
  • The Hoax of Entitlement Reform
  • BILL MOYERS: ALEC Exposed -- Hidding in Plain Sight
  • On the Fiscal Cliff, Obama Does What He Can Against 200 Years of Bad Faith
  • Thanks To Gerrymandering, Democrats Would Need To Win The Popular Vote By Over 7 Percent To Take Back The House
  • Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak—Read Them Here
  • Cliff After Cliff
  • President Obama on the "Fiscal Cliff" Agreement
  • Deficits Were On Purpose To Cause This “Crisis”
  • House Republicans Pass Bill to Avoid the "Fiscal Cliff"
  • Brewing Up Confusion
  • President's Obama's Statement on the "Fiscal Cliff" December 28, 2012
  • So You Think You Know the Second Amendment?
  • ENOUGH!
  • Democratic House Candidates Now Have A Nearly 1.2 Million Vote Lead Over The Republicans
  • For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall
  • Conservative Republicans' Next Target: Nebraska's Chuck Hagel
  • Words for These Times
  • From Apocalypse to Dystopia
  • How Party of Budget Restraint Shifted to ‘No New Taxes,’ Ever
  • The NRA Thinks MORE Guns Are the Answer: Watch This!
  • 11 Days Till Your Taxes Go Up and Republicans Leave Town to Celebrate Christmas
  • Bill Moyers Essay: Remember the Victims, Reject the Violence
  • Newtown CT Tragedy Framed as a Public Health Issue
  • Boehner Plan B: House Republicans Humiliate Their Leader
  • TIME Magazine's 2012 Person of the Year
  • New CNN/ORC Poll: Are GOP Policies Too Extreme?
  • Boehner Abandons Plan to Avoid ‘Fiscal Cliff’
  • The Solution to Gun Violence Is Clear
  • LA TIMES: Boehner Vows to Press Ahead with 'Plan B' Votes
  • President Obama in Newtown, Connecticut
  • The G.O.P.’s Existential Crisis
  • GOP State Leaders Fumble by Ceding Control of Health Exchanges to Federal Officials, Critics Say
  • Obama’s Trump Card on the Debt Limit
  • The Truth Behind Grover Norquist's Pledge
  • Tax the Rich: An 8 Minute Animated Fairy Tale
  • GOP "Fiscal Cliff" Plan Echoes Failed Budget Talks
  • Class Wars of 2012
  • US Science Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom
  • Don't Throw Science Over 'Fiscal Cliff,' Experts Warn
  • Are You Dumber Than An American?
  • House Republicans Trying to Postpone Tax Hikes For The Rich, Deficit Deal
  • This Guy Repeats Himself Until His Claims Sound Dumb Even To Him
  • Here's a Map of the Countries That Provide Universal Health Care (America's Still Not on It)
  • Showing Backbone on the Debt
  • How Economists Got Income Inequality Wrong
  • Texas Landowners Take a Rare Stand Against Big Oil
  • TAKING NOTE: Ensnared by Citizens United
  • Answered Call from the Gulf
  • Fear of a Black President
  • NC Justice Center: Obama's Immigration Move: "Important Step Forward"
  • Editorial - When Politics Get in the Way of Good Public Policy
  • How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics
  • New Study: The Value of Teachers
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday January 16, 2012
  • Congress Continues to Endanger Healthcare
  • Rep. Cantor Defends His Party's Dug-In Stance on No Tax Increases
  • Wyden-Ryan’s Unrealistic Assumptions
  • Obama’s Surprisingly Good 2011
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • CDC: Health Reform Extends Coverage to Young Americans
  • Holder Signals Tough Review of New State Laws on Voting
  • Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs
  • Birthright: What’s next for Planned Parenthood?
  • The Billions Corporations Avoided Paying in Taxes Would Have Created Over 100,000 Jobs in Education
  • Editorial: Ellmers Gets it Wrong
  • How Big Money Influences Price of Gas at the Pump
  • G.O.P. House Majority at Risk
  • The Real Cost of Photo ID
• Women's Rights & Issues (13)
  • Women's Long Battle to Define Rape
  • Coleman: GOP Should Repudiate Anti-Planned Parenthood Comments
  • Larry Pittman is a Big, Fat Hypocrite
  • Republicans Reintroduce Legislation Attacking Women’s Health Care
  • Lawmaker Barred From Speaking After 'Vagina' Comment
  • Silenced Legislator to Perform 'Monologues' on Capitol Steps
  • Why Conservatives Wrongly Blame Single Moms for the Disastrous Failures of the Right-Wing Economic Model
  • Chilling Example of a (MICHIGAN) Republican 'War on Women'
  • NC Dems File Bills to Fight Alleged GOP "War on Women'
  • Planned Parenthood Says NC Budget Targets it Again
  • The Cracked Pipeline: How Redistricting Targeted Women Lawmakers In Statehouses Around The Country
  • NYT EDITORIAL: The Campaign Against Women is REAL
  • Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards: Romney Puts Women’s Lives at Risk
• North Carolina Political News (85)
  • MONDAY BY THE NUMBERS
  • Sign Up for Moral Mondays Carpooling
  • North Carolina Historians Jailed for Protesting Voting Rights Abuses, Regressive Policies
  • Taxing the Truth
  • North Carolina: A Banana Republic for Dirty Energy Interests?
  • Even Counting Votes too Scientific for North Carolina
  • The Republican Power Grab in North Carolina
  • Cuts to NC Pre-K Get Preliminary House Approval
  • Art Pope Groups Push Extreme ALEC Tax Agenda in North Carolina
  • NC Job Deaths Undercounted, Study fFnds
  • NC NAACP president, 16 Other Protestors Arrested Outside NC Senate
  • In NC budget, Where Did the $1 Billion Go?
  • Rural Parts of NC Lose Out in GOP Budget
  • North Carolinians: Want Your State Back?
  • CCDP Elects Party Leaders for 2013 - 2014
  • McCrory Replaces State Board of Elections As Inquiry Into Contributions Begins
  • UPDATE: Silence Unwanted Voices
  • Legislative Information from the North Carolina Council of Churches
  • Voter ID Laws – Restoration of Voter Integrity or a Constitutional Violation?
  • Nate Silver Puts McCrory Right of Perry, Jindal, Haley
  • Stam's Crusade
  • News from Chatham Citizens for Effective Communities
  • After Emotional Debate, Voter ID Bill Approved by House Panel
  • Number Crunch in Schools
  • Monday Numbers (April 15, 2013); Eductaion "Reform"
  • A Look at North Carolina’s Medicaid Program
  • GOP Voting Crackdown in NC Threatens Minorities
  • Professors From Triangle Universities Slam State Republican Policies
  • Art Pope-Backed Lawmaker Leads Push For New Voting Restrictions in NC
  • NC Politics and Republicans: A POLL TAX !!
  • Don't Let Them Rig The Election!
  • Progress NC Tour to Save Early Voting in NC
  • Jeanne Bonds & Cash Michaels on Gov. McCrory's Budget
  • More Groups Oppose GOP Bills to Restrict Early Voting in NC
  • NC Faculty, Graduate Students Criticize New Laws
  • NC Democratic Party Chair Says Dems Must Fight Back
  • NC Lawmakers Continue to Seek to Limit Voters
  • North Carolina Republicans Plan to Deregulate Charter Schools and Force Them on Local Communities
  • In North Carolina, a Conspicuous Partisan Power Play
  • House Bill Threatens NC Solar Boom
  • Unmaking the American Century VII: Disquiet on the North Carolina Front
  • Guard the Jewel: Go Slow on Downsizing the UNC System
  • McCrory Eliminates Latino Outreach Office
  • Prospect of Closing Any of the UNC System's Campuses Leads to Outcry
  • On Being Governed by Brigands in NC
  • 2013 North Carolina Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
  • The Chatham County Democratic Party Will Hold Precinct Meetings From March 9th Through March 16th
  • Gov.McCrory Likes Pink Licenses Designating Immigrants
  • RESOURCES from Democracy North Carolina
  • Sticking By Their Mistake
  • Democratic Response to Governor Pat McCrory's 2013 State of the State Address
  • Gov. McCrory's Fuzzy Vision Needs Work
  • Dome: Gov. Pat McCrory Signs Bill That Transforms Jobless System
  • NC Dems Chairman Wants McCrory to Rein in GOP Legislature
  • Bill Would Remake NC Coastal Resources Commission
  • Stop Republican Power Grab of Important State Commissions
  • Does Governor McCrory Have a Conflict of Interest?
  • Legislation Would Repeal N.C. Tax Credit for Low- and Moderate-Income Taxpayers
  • NC Lawmakers are Sacrificing Those in Need on the Altar of ‘States’ Rights’
  • The Latest Hypocrisy on Jones Street
  • McCrory Meekly Joins the Tea Party and Punishes 500,000 People
  • NC Democratic Party Chairman Addresses Goals
  • Stevens, Brubaker Are Latest Lawmakers-Turned-Lobbyists
  • North Carolina House Pledges Slower Approach on Medicaid Bill
  • NC Senate Republicans Vote to Block Medicaid Expansion, Exchanges
  • Pittsboro Mayor is New N.C. Democratic Party Chairman
  • Join "HK on J" On Saturday, February 09th
  • Key Facts About the Unemployment Debate in North Carolina
  • NC House Democrats Concerned About Fast-Tracked Legislation on First Day
  • Governor, Education is About Much More Than Just Jobs
  • North Carolina Mulls Taxing The Poor To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich
  • BTC REPORTS: A "Laffable" Plan for Tax Reform - The Civitas/Laffer/Senate Plan for North Carolina Shifts Load to the Poor, Middle-class
  • Pat McCrory Promise Tracker
  • A Flawed Vision From North Carolina's GOP Leader
  • North Carolina Renewable Energy Initiatives Under Attack by ALEC
  • Senate lLader Berger Outlines Agenda for Upcoming Session
  • INAUGURAL CELEBRATION & TRIBUTE TO UNSUNG HEROES
  • License Decision is Self-Defeating
  • McCrory’s Former Law Firm Moving Up in Lobbying Ranks
  • Kicking the Unemployed While They're Down
  • Pay-to-Play Pat: New Website
  • Gov. Perdue Issues Pardon of Innocence for Wilmington 10
  • Randy Voller Running for NC State Democratic Party Chair
  • McCrory Names Art Pope to Be His Chief Budget Writer
  • McCrory Group Works Outside Political Giving Rules

En Espanol