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It was 100 years ago that North Carolina’s most powerful political boss, U.S. Sen. Furnifold Simmons of Jones County, consolidated his hold on power.
Modified: 05/27/12 04:30:56 AMCommentary: There was a time when Labor Day was considered the kickoff to the general election season. But with North Carolina one of about 10 states that will likely decide the presidency, we are likely in for six months of grinding partisan warfare.
Modified: 05/20/12 03:37:00 AMCommentary: During the 1980s and 1990s, there was no better courtroom closer in North Carolina than John Edwards.
Modified: 05/18/12 12:39:39 PM
Our state is a paradox, where progressive tendencies exist alongside religious conservatism.
Modified: 05/13/12 07:35:51 AMLike Captain Renault in the movie "Casablanca," I am shocked, shocked, to learn that the boys and girls on Jones Street have been playing doctor and other naughty games right under our noses.
Modified: 05/06/12 07:34:43 AMWhen President Obama visited Chapel Hill last week, the theme running through national media stories was how difficult it is going to be for the president to win North Carolina again.
Modified: 04/28/12 11:31:55 PMRob Christensen: With David Parker in no hurry to leave his position, the party’s current controversy isn’t going away very fast.
Modified: 04/22/12 04:09:38 AMRob Christensen: Rick Santorum was a no-show. Mitt Romney is showing up Wednesday to collect some checks. Only Newt Gingrich among the GOP presidential hopefuls has conducted anything approaching a traditional campaign in North Carolina.
Modified: 05/08/12 09:04:42 PMA Duke University study found that candidates with lower-pitched voices may get more votes. Researchers suggest results could provide a window into the snap judgments that people make about candidates.
Modified: 04/08/12 03:50:31 AMOne hundred years ago Tuesday, Charles Brantley Aycock had just been introduced by the Alabama governor before a capacity audience at the Jefferson Theater in Birmingham to talk about how North Carolina was leading the Southern crusade to improve the public schools.
Modified: 04/01/12 01:34:37 AMPaul Coble and George Holding, two of three GOP candidates competing for the U.S. House seat, are trying to paint the other as the less conservative of the two.
Modified: 03/25/12 05:27:40 PMThis is the 1,000th column that I have written for The News & Observer, a vast river of verbiage about Jesse Helms, John Edwards, Jim Hunt, Jim Black, Art Pope and a gallery of other figures who have populated Tar Heel politics.
Modified: 03/17/12 09:40:29 PMChristensen: For the first time since California Gov. Ronald Reagan was making his national political move, North Carolina will likely be in play in the GOP presidential primary.
Modified: 03/11/12 08:37:57 AMChristensen: If Congress were a business, it would be investigated by the Justice Department for antitrust violations.
Modified: 03/04/12 02:42:28 PMChristensen: Republicans have been having a high old time in recent days proclaiming North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat, as "the dumbest governor in America."
Modified: 02/26/12 04:22:37 AMChristensen: During the 1950s, being a racial moderate in the South could sometimes be uncomfortable. For Bill Snider it meant having a cross burned on his lawn and the windows of his Greensboro house smashed while his children slept inside.
Modified: 02/19/12 06:36:29 AMChristensen: If you want learn how to protect a bank, you ask a famous bank robber like Willie Sutton. If you want to know how to clean up Washington, you ask Jack Abramoff.
Modified: 02/12/12 04:06:20 AM
Christensen: If Republicans lose the governor's race this year, they may have some rude denizens of the Dean Dome to blame.
Modified: 02/05/12 07:54:31 AMChristensen: The big dogs will be passing the hat this week forDemocratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton.
Modified: 01/22/12 05:17:46 AM
Christensen: Some 500 journalists gathered Wednesday at the Time-Warner Cable Arena, some from news outlets as far away as Japan and Qatar, to get a look at the site of the Democratic National Convention that will be held in 232 days.
Modified: 01/19/12 08:15:46 AM
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