Pat McCrory News

More states are taking middle-of-the-road approaches toward the Common Core State Standards, and both opponents and supporters say it's a good thing.

Conflict over disclosure of charter-school salaries flared anew Thursday as House Democrats said a Senate-approved bill shields for-profit management companies from revealing who they hire and how much they pay.

Gov. Pat McCrory's attempt to placate pro-choice activists a year ago was remembered on Thursday by activists who tried to give him a box of broken cookies – to symbolize what they called his broken promise not to support restrictions on abortion.

During a visit to Burlington on Thursday, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos called the Medicaid reform plan proposed by her department and endorsed by Gov. Pat McCrory the right one for the state to follow.

Now, with a Republican governor at the helm, some GOP lawmakers want to expand state incentives and create a so-called "closing fund" that will allow cash grants to seal a deal with large corporations that promise to add jobs.

The Technical and Other Corrections bill passed in a state House committee over the objections of Democrats and appears headed for a quick floor vote.

They're construction workers, waitresses and cashiers. They care for our children and elderly parents, clean our offices and bathrooms.

Right now, for example, Democratic politicians and left-wing activists are castigating Republicans in the General Assembly for proposing a reduction or elimination of North Carolina's tax credit for film and television production.

Before she was allowed to register and vote for the first time in Franklin County, N.C., Rosanell Eaton had to read the entire preamble to the U.S. Constitution out loud in front of three men in the county courthouse.

It's been around since 1980, when the federal government passed the Bayh-Dole Act and made it possible for universities to own intellectual property rights to federally-funded research.

In early June, Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill that opened North Carolina to hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking.

The crisis of children entering the country has Governor McCrory and other republican governors co-signing a letter to President Obama expressing their concerns; Bill O'Neil reports from Greensboro.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is in the business of looking out for the interests of children, particularly poor children, and uses periodic data to report on the "state of the child" in all states.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's press officials have declined repeatedly to elaborate on the governor's views on LGBT employment protections for more than three weeks since his approval of a state equal employment opportunity executive order.

Scores of people, mostly women, have called or written to tell me how off-base I was last week in a column in which their beloved pastor, Patrick Wooden, was mentioned and quoted.

At a "night of action," the conservative bombthrower advises opponents of the education standards that his radiocative reputation may not help their fight.

The House speaker, who won the Republican Senate nomination in May, has split his time negotiating a North Carolina government budget agreement and collecting dollars for his Senate campaign that's been significantly outraised by Hagan so far.

NC Gov. Pat McCrory presents Jerome Peribere, CEO of Sealed Air , with a Sun Valley Spartans sweatshirt at a press conference announcing Sealed Air's plan to relocate their headquarters to Charlotte, NC.

A hat tip to Carolina Plotthound for this link of NAACP - North Carolina chapter President and leader of the "Moral Monday" protests Rev.

The Elmwood Park, New Jersey-based maker of Bubble Wrap protective cushioning, food packaging and cleaning products will move all or part of its operations in Saddle Brook, New Jersey; Danbury, Connecticut; Racine, Wisconsin; and Duncan and Greenville, South Carolina, into a new headquarters complex in the Charlotte area costing more than $50 ... (more)