Entrepreneurs, officials and educators revive the eastern region with visionary businesses and public-private initiatives.

North Carolina has a great opportunity to fix its hyper-polarized voting districts.

A key trade-group leader played frontman as North Carolina turned right.

A Jacksonville small-business owner with a gift for politics champions the state’s rural areas.

A battle is brewing between the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission and the association that represents the state’s commercial fishermen.

Free & Clear: Both sides arguing about whether or not employment has improved under Obama and McCrory are laboring under a misconception.

Capital Goods: The legislature might be swatting a fly with a sledge hammer if it tries to bring some uniformity to municipal privelege taxes.

Capital Goods: A recent report raises questions about how big a role placement agents and influence peddling play in investments of the state employees pension fund.

Free & Clear: Toll roads are one way to relieve congested highways. But to reap rewards, the public-private partnerships that build them should shoulder more risk.

Capital Goods: That the major policy initiative of the Obama administration nearly has been undone by a government website's glitches might come as a shock to many but not to [...]