Burr assumes Helms' conservative mantle
Elizabeth Dole may have taken Jesse Helms' seat in the U.S. Senate, but Richard Burr took his place.
Burr, Graham retool GI Bill
GOP senators say retention their aim.
Critics: GI Bill reform too rich
The Senate is poised to vote as soon as today on a new GI Bill tucked inside a massive funding measure.
Basnight foresees no tax increases this year
Under the Dome:Senate leader Marc Basnight said Wednesday that there won't be any tax increases this year.
Cooper refuses to expand on admissions advice
Under the Dome:Attorney General Roy Cooper has refused to discuss the advisory letter his office sent out last week, which recommended barring illegal immigrants from community colleges.
Build on FBI strengths; don't fragment forces
The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security. Much has been said since then about the flaws in intelligence and counterterrorism that resulted in a failure to prevent those attacks. Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves. The creation of a new domestic spy agency, separate from both the FBI and the CIA, is the wrong solution. The creation of a new bureaucracy would rebuild the wall between intelligence and law enforcement that existed prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. We need, as former Attorney General William Barr said in his testimony to the Sept. 11 commission, to "meld intelligence and law enforcement more closely together, not tear them apart." Having torn down the wall between the two with the Patriot Act, why would we want to replace it with a fence?
Campaign reconnaissance
A student on hiatus is not-so-clandestine in his work for the Democrats.
Bowles joins foes of landing field
Democratic Senate candidate Erskine Bowles said Wednesday that he opposes Navy plans to build a practice landing field for F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets in Eastern North Carolina.
Cobey's poll casts wide net
It makes sense for gubernatorial candidate Bill Cobey to want to know how popular he might be with voters. But Mel Gibson?
Buyout central to tobacco vote
The financial survival of 8,000 tobacco farmers in North Carolina rests with the prospect of a federal buyout of their government allotted quotas.
Eight vie for seat in 5th District
Candidates' platforms similar on issues such as free trade and health care.
'Pastor' pesters in e-mail
One big question surfaced Thursday in the heated Fifth Congressional District race: Who is Pastor Randy?
Super Bowl incident prompts calls for new rules
A religious broadcasters group may suggest a new rule that would require cable systems to let customers block offending channels at no cost.
Burr says look at his record, not the president's
U.S. Rep. Richard Burr said Tuesday that he will run his statewide Senate campaign on his congressional record and not by defending President Bush's policies on the economy or the war on terror. Burr, from Winston-Salem, is the only major Republican seeking the seat being vacated by John Edwards.
