by Kirk Kovach | May 31, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
After poring over the 250+ page budget released late Monday, a special funding scheme came to light which funneled $200,000 to a particular senate district in Charlotte. Jeff Tarte, whose newly reconfigured district pits him in perhaps the most competitive senate race...
by Kirk Kovach | May 30, 2018 | Features, The Kovach Corner |
The cadre of Republicans in Raleigh who basically run the state have streamlined their budget process by making it into a conference report. You have to get into the weeds a little bit to unpack their methods. A typical process might go like this: a bill is proposed...
by Darren Janz | May 28, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography |
The smallest county in North Carolina by land area, Chowan County is the innermost of the five long, narrow “finger counties” located north of the Albemarle Sound on the state’s northeastern Coastal Plain. Chowan has a rich history – it was formed as Shaftesbury...
by Darren Janz | May 17, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography |
Nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains on the borders with Tennessee and Georgia, Cherokee County is the westernmost county in North Carolina. The county was formed in 1839 and named for the Cherokee tribe, a large portion of which had then recently been expelled...
by Darren Janz | May 10, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography
Located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, Chatham County is considered by most measures to contain the geographic center of the state. With the Durham-Chapel Hill area directly to its north and the Raleigh-Cary area directly to its east, the county is an...
by Byron Williams | May 6, 2018 | Features, Politics
All the attributes associated with the career of Bill Cosby, the last one may very well be the one that places the exclamation point on his career: convicted felon. The guilty verdict handed down to Bill Cosby for sexual assault, though not surprising in the abstract,...
