Pat McCrory News

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)

"Voluntary tax" sounds like as much of an oxymoron as "dry lake." But in Richmond County, the first seemingly contradictory phrase could be the solution for the second.

Gov. Pat McCrory has met with Senate Republicans to try to look at ways to narrow their differences over budget adjustments that were supposed to be in place three weeks ago.

The border crisis has made headlines nationally for months, with thousands of children crossing the border into America.

Outgoing Superior Court Judge Rob Johnson's vacant seat on the bench will be filled by election.

Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation Tuesday that includes the review and revision of the state's reading and math curriculum in K-12 schools.

N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory speaks with Charlotte City Councilman Ed Driggs at a press conference Tuesday at the Charlotte Chamber.

Mecklenburg Republican Bob Rucho led the charge last week to put a cap on local sales taxes, a move that would force county commissioners to drop a fall referendum aimed at giving teachers larger raises.

Ideal Fastener Corp. plans to expand its Granville County facility, where it produces zippers, adding 155 jobs over the next five years.

NC Gov. Pat McCrory thanks Spectra Group President Aditya Narra at a press conference announcing Spectra Group's new Charlotte-based Financial Services Delivery Center.

Did you happen to catch Gov. Pat McCrory on Fox News the week before last? He was full of good news, happy to report that the legislation he and the Republican-dominated General Assembly pushed through last year regarding unemployment-insurance laws has had a wonderful effect, lifting the economy out of its Great Recession doldrums.

Poetry has long been an action-packed artistic genre in Western North Carolina. Here, it's not merely written but spoken, slammed and taken into schools .

Spectra Group Inc., a financial-services technology consulting company, plans to bring 250 jobs to Charlotte.