Junius J. Gonzales, provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Texas-El Paso, has been tapped as the new senior vice president of academic affairs for the UNC system.
Following a series of tight election results nationwide, Evan Feinberg, president of Generation Opportunity, and U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, a Republican from Georgia, sat down on Monday to discuss why the Republican Party appeals to youth voters — providing specific analysis of North Carolina's election results.
A rundown of the candidates in today's midterm election for Chapel Hill and Carrboro voters.
Election Day has come — and more important than the actual winners and losers, Nov. 4 means the cascade of political advertising will come to a close.Unfortunately for Louisiana and Georgia, their races will likely result in a run-off, and therefore will see much more of the same campaign propaganda.
If Thom Tillis can defeat Sen. Kay Hagan in the November election, the Republicans will likely have an easy path to their ultimate goal: control of both houses of Congress.The Republican Party knows this, and its leaders have sent the cavalry into North Carolina to support Tillis’ campaign for U.S. Senate.
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While the political ads can be many things — informative, entertaining or bizarre chief among them — but one thing they have to be able to do is cut through the chatter and leave a lasting impact on the audience.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., known best for his 2008 presidential campaign against Barack Obama, joined North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr in Cary on Wednesday to campaign for U.S. Senate hopeful Thom Tillis.
After the pair of televised U.S. Senate debates on Oct. 7 and 9, students might have been able to sympathize with Sen. Kay Hagan — she was being called out on attendance.Republican challenger Thom Tillis called Hagan out at both debates for missing half of the 2014 meetings of the Senate's Armed Services Committee.
How do you get youth voters to turn out on Nov. 4 to vote, particularly when they tend to have significantly lower participation rates during midterm elections than in a presidential year?Rock the Vote has enlisted well-known rapper Lil John — and his multi-platinum hit song "Turn Down For What?"
What does a high-profile White House break-in that occurred in September have to do with North Carolina's midterm election?Nothing, say many people.It shows that Kay Hagan has bad foreign policy experience, says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis.
The chairwoman of High Point University's College Republicans has stirred national attention for trying to stop a voter registration drive happening on campus last weekend.
Political candidates have to cut across the clutter of jingles, corporate slogans and forced hashtags that inundate viewers’ screens. A handful of political ads attempt to hold viewers attention with a hand — or paw — from the animal kingdom.
As the 2014 midterm elections draw near, American voters are still hungry for economic progress and unhappy with Congress — but North Carolinians are taking a sharp interest in foreign policy.A poll released Oct. 2 by the Associated Press and German research firm GfK Group showed that economic recovery topped the list of issues for Americans this election season, followed closely by national security.
North Carolina has received the lowest ranking for teachers among all 50 states, according to a new study by WalletHub.
North Carolina is one of 10 states most reliant on income tax revenue, according to a recent report by Standard & Poor’s.And it turns out the state has lost more income tax revenue than expected — a total of $675 million — from the General Assembly's cuts to the individual income tax in 2013.
As the November election draws nearer, it seems both Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and Speaker of the House Thom Tillis have some work to do to reach faith-based voters — who make up one-third of the North Carolina electorate.
A new political ad from a conservative outside group intending to target women voters fed up with President Barack Obama has received intense backlash for being sexist.
Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Rand Paul, and Hillary Clinton are names pollsters have been foreseeing in the 2016 presidential primaries, but seem a little out of place in the N.C. Senate race between Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis.These big names, with the exception of Hillary whose husband is doing it for her, are throwing endorsements into every Senate race they can reach, and we can be certain the victors will return the favor in 2016.