Graig Meyer was a longtime follower of politics but only seriously considered holding public office when Valerie Foushee moved to the N.C. Senate in September, leaving a vacant seat in the N.C. House of Representatives.
While UNC-CH students and faculty have expressed outrage about systemwide changes to the period during which students can drop a class, most of the state’s public universities will not see major changes.
As children, the Potts sisters rallied at political conferences with their mother. Now, in the tense days of the federal shutdown, they continued the tradition at Capitol Hill by joining female legislators nationwide to protest military funding.
RALEIGH — After returning almost $600,000 of federal grants to study environmental protection has sparked controversy, N.C. environmental officials are defending their decision.
In the aftermath of the UNC-system Board of Governors’ August ban on gender-neutral housing, student leaders are continuing to look for housing alternatives to keep students safe.
Despite the Republican presence in most legislatures and governors’ mansions across the South, Democratic leaders are looking to reclaim the region in 2014 and beyond.
The energy from the NAACP-sponsored rally held at Peace & Justice Plaza Wednesday was carried into the Chapel Hill Post Office as the candidates hoping to represent Orange and Chatham counties as a state senator made their case.
They call themselves “the in-state five.”
Prominent public universities are moving toward offering more virtual degrees — a push university leaders say could lower tuition costs and better serve residents.
When Jennings Brody opened Parker and Otis, a restaurant and gourmet grocery store, six years ago, there were about three locally owned restaurants nearby in downtown Durham.
Compiled by Chelsey Dulaney and Sarah Glen from Chapel Hill Police reports
