Week In State Politics

Republican House Speaker Tim Moore was sued this week by the estranged husband of a woman who Moore acknowledges to having a sexual relationship with. How will the revelations practically impact what’s happening at the state legislature? Meanwhile, state lawmakers are considering a proposed constitutional amendment that would put a max on state spending by using a formula based on inflation and state population growth. Western Carolina Political Science Professor Chris Cooper and NC Free Enterprise Executive Director Anna Beavon Gravely discuss those stories, as well as a controversial bill now on the governor’s desk.

2020 was an exhausting year for North Carolinians, and in the world of news and politics.Host Jeff Tiberii, Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch and Becki…

It was unprecedented, exhausting, unrelenting and — to at least one local reporter — bananas. The 2020 calendar will be remembered for a pandemic, racial…

What is the typical gubernatorial profile in North Carolina? Are there patterns in the background, upbringing or political composition of those who have…

County elections boards have finalized their official vote tallies. Still, on Friday the race to be chief justice of the state Supreme Court looked almost…

Election Day brought little closure for our nation or our state in 2020.There will be counts and recounts and court filings and calls to concede before…

At least 4 million North Carolina voters won't be at the polls next Tuesday because they've already cast their ballots. And the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…

With less than two weeks until November 3, more than two million people have already voted. In our review of the week in state politics, Democratic…

North Carolina is again home to the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the nation's history. During this 2020 election cycle, billions of dollars will…

This week: North Carolina voters turned out in record numbers for the start of in-person early voting. Lines were made longer by social distancing — the…