GOP Leaders Seek Unity in Speaker Fight
State Republican leaders are scrambling to unify party members after N.C. House Minority Leader Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, announced Sunday that he does not have enough votes to win election as House speaker.
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State Republican leaders are scrambling to unify party members after N.C. House Minority Leader Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, announced Sunday that he does not have enough votes to win election as House speaker.
Though the presidential primaries are more than a year away, students across the state already are gearing up in support of their favorite candidates.
Officials revived the battle over state legislative districts Thursday when attorneys from the N.C. Office of the Attorney General refined an appeal opposing districts imposed by a judge.
The UNC-system Board of Governors will consider Friday a freeze on all tuition increases for the 2003-04 academic year, an action prompted by concerns about the impact of a faltering economy on students and their families.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A subgroup of the UNC-system Association of Student Governments voted unanimously Saturday to eliminate the position of vice president of administration for the 2002-03 school year.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Republicans likely will enter the 2003 legislative session with a razor-thin majority in the N.C. House, already fueling debate within the legislature as to who will lead the chamber as House speaker.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole still maintains a comfortable lead over Democrat Erskine Bowles, according to the Carolina Poll released Friday by the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For students whose high school years are characterized by an emotional experience with sexuality, their struggle might seem like an ideal way to express uniqueness in 500 words or less.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For those who knew Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., the trait that will be missed most is the UNC alumnus's refusal to forgo his liberal beliefs in favor of a political agenda.
Almost a month of speculation over whether former Democratic Senate candidate Dan Blue would endorse a nominee in the state's U.S. Senate race ended Tuesday with a declaration of support for fellow Democrat Erskine Bowles.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>UNC-Chapel Hill leads the nation in providing students with an affordable education, according to two influential college ranking systems.
U.S. Senate hopefuls Erskine Bowles and Elizabeth Dole both support President Bush's policy of removing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power, but experts say that unless the candidates press the issue in debates, it is not likely to have a significant impact on the election.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>UNC's position among both national and public universities remained the same this year, according to the 2003 U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings officially released today.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, said Wednesday that he will challenge the results of Tuesday's primary election in which he lost the Orange County legislative seat to Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, also D-Orange, by just 162 votes.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A prominent member of the N.C. Republican Party expounded Monday evening on the impact voting can have on the political makeup of the state at a meeting of the UNC College Republicans.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>People traveling in and out of the Triangle say they are concerned about a U.S. Senate bill that would arm commercial pilots.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Despite efforts from both camps to stick to the issues, the race between veteran N.C. Sens. Ellie Kinnaird and Howard Lee, both D-Orange, is turning aggressive in the last few days before the Sept. 10 Democratic primary.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>DURHAM -- U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Dole roared into Duke University's Page Auditorium on a motorcycle Thursday as more than 200 students showed their support at a rally for the Students for Dole campaign.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Terms for district court judges would double under legislation passed by an N.C. House committee -- but the bill's future still remains uncertain.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>SAT scores in North Carolina rose six points for the 2001-02 year, placing the state above the Southeast average for the first time.