Category: North Carolina

Public financing of campaigns in North Carolina

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 18, 2010
Categories In North Carolina

This Lumina News report explains that Wilmington, NC took steps to endorse and possibly move to public financing of campaigns.

Greensboro mulls lobbyist expenditure

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 29, 2010
Categories In North Carolina

The Greensboro News & Record reports that the City Council is considering a proposal to hire a lobbyist. Other North Carolina cities, including High Point, have federal lobbyists. Officials there have credited their roughly $120,000 annual lobbying investment with landing millions in grants and smoothing talks with federal regulators. But at least one Greensboro City […]

Corruption issues in North Carolina

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 27, 2010
Categories In North Carolina

How will ethics issues play in elections? That’s what this article about North Carolina politics discusses. “This could be a scenario where you have the megastorm, where you have just a terrible economy, you have unrest and anger with the electorate and then you have (corruption) on top of it,” said Brad Crone, a longtime […]