N&O: Dix deal emerging, Council of State to consider on Tuesday
The News & Observer is reporting that the deal for Dorothea Dix is a 75-year lease by the state to Raleigh for $500,000 a year, with a 1.5 percent a year inflation factor. The Council of State will...
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Voller to Dems: March with me at HKonJ-7 in Raleigh on Saturday
At his first press conference since being elected state Democratic Party chair, Pittsboro Mayor Randy Voller called on Democrats to take a stand against the Republican-led "radical, reactionary...
View ArticleHey, Pat McCrory! You're national (bad) news for sticking it to the jobless.
Gov. McCrory signed the bill slashing unemployment benefits in North Carolina, a measure which also makes North Carolinians the only folks in America who, if they lose their jobs, will not be eligible...
View ArticleCalling all Wake schools, Dix Park backers: Show-of-force time Monday at...
The Wake County legislative delegation is meeting Monday at 4 pm in the General Assembly building on the first floor. It's an open forum and a chance to take a stand — with the county's Republican and...
View ArticleSenate Republicans to Raleigh: Drop dead. (Contract? What contract?)
As expected, Senate Republicans this morning started the wheels in motion to tear up the state's lease with the City of Raleigh for the Dorothea Dix tract because, the GOP legislators said, former Gov....
View ArticleRep. Deborah Ross to TTA, former Rep. Grier Martin on deck
It's one good progressive out, another ready to step back in: State Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Wake, is leaving the General Assembly to be general counsel at Triangle Transit. Former Rep. Grier Martin,...
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UNC-CH senior arrested at the General Assembly: "I cannot in good conscience...
Five UNC system students, members of the NC Student Power Union, were arrested at the General Assembly yesterday. They were part of a larger demonstration of about 100 students and others in the front...
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[Updated x 2: Another 'Moral Monday' next week: AP] Progressives promising...
[Update x 2, Thursday, May 9: The AP is reporting that next Monday will be another "Moral Monday" at the General Assembly, with non-violent civil disobedience again in the offing.][Update, Tuesday, May...
View Article[Kicking can / Update X 2] House not ready to renege on Dix Park lease just yet
[Update x 2, 4 p.m. Wednesday] The House Judiciary Committee approved a substitute bill for Senate Bill 334 and sent it to the House floor.…
View ArticleScenes from Moral Monday at the General Assembly: June 3 should be the...
The General Assembly isn't in session on Memorial Day — next Monday — so no "Moral Monday" protest is planned. The next one, on Monday, June 3, is shaping up as the biggest yet.…
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More on Randy Voller: Raleigh's Nina Szlosberg-Landis, 1st vice chair,...
While Randy Voller was elected chairman of the state Democratic Party in February by a narrow margin — just 11 votes out of some 600 — the newly elected first vice chair, Nina Szlosberg-Landis of...
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NCDP on Sen. Kinnaird: A true Tar Heel hero.
State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird of Orange County, a leading progressive voice on a wide range of issues, is leaving the General Assembly after 17 years in the Senate. Her departure comes on the heels, as it...
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Delightful 12-year-old, 1. Prickly Gov. McCrory, 0.
All I can say is, for a governor Pat McCrory has remarkably thin skin. And a remarkable lack of good grace or — absent grace — any ability to fake it.…
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Sen. Rucho, who compares Obamacare to Nazi atrocities, is in the GOP mainstream
By now, you've read about Sen. Bob Rucho, the Charlotte Republican who claimed in a tweet that Obamacare poses a worse threat to the country than the Nazis, Stalin or terrorists ever did. If not,...
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Today: Virginia's AG goes bold, unlike our AG Roy Cooper
It can't be a good day for N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, who's all but declared his candidacy for governor in 2016. On the same day that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, also a Democrat,...
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Pro-LGBT group calls on Roy Cooper to drop Amendment One defense
In a post yesterday, I noted that as Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring was stepping up on the issue of same-sex marriage rights, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper was shrinking from an...
View ArticleOregon's AG is 6th, so far, who refuses to defend state's same-sex marriage ban
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum: "Because we cannot identify a valid reason for the state to prevent the couples who have filed these lawsuits from marrying in Oregon, we find ourselves unable...
View ArticleKentucky Attorney General is 7th who won't defend his state's same-sex...
Democrat Jack Conway, Kentucky's elected attorney general and a prospective candidate for governor next year, tells Talking Points Memo why he cannot defend his state's law banning recognition of...
View ArticleTillis vs. Hagan: A U.S. Senate race about the General Assembly?
Imagine a great Republican candidate to go against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan this fall. H/she is a business owner.…
View ArticleAiken, Cleary, win Democratic congressional primaries in Districts 2, 13
Whoa, the Democratic primary in U.S. House District 2 was a squeaker, mainly because Fayetteville's Toni Morris captured almost 20 percent of the votes — very unexpected. That left Clay Aiken and Keith...
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State shuts down Sen. Thom ("I call them Moron Mondays") Goolsby's investment...
In the "Yes, We Did See That Coming" category, Sen. Thom Goolsby, a Wilmington Republican, got whacked today by the N.C. Secretary of State's office for misleading investors. Goolsby and his investment...
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Renee Ellmers-Clay Aiken election campaign: Take one down, pass it around
It's July — still — and no time to be thinking about elections, which aren't until —Bzzzt. My mailbox is overflowing with reminders that just 100 days remain … no, now it's 99 days … until Nov. 4,...
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Updated: 4th Circuit strikes down Va. same-sex marriage ban; Cooper drops...
Breaking news 2: Attorney General Roy Cooper just finished a press conference. He said he's dropping his defense of Amendment One in the four N.C. cases brought by LGBT advocates.…
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Dix Park: The Deal is Done
Gov. Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane were all smiles this afternoon as they announced that the state will sell the 308-acre Dorothea Dix Hospital tract to the city for $52 million. They...
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State Rep. Rick Glazier's pending resignation a big loss (and Justice Center...
Folks around here may not know the name Rick Glazier, though we should. He's from Fayetteville, a lawyer, former Cumberland County school board member, and a seven-term member of the N.C. House of...
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