Politics

March 27, 2008 - This is part of an ongoing series covering the North Carolina primary elections this May.

March 26, 2008 - This is part of a series of Facing South posts covering the upcoming North Carolina primary elections.

March 26, 2008 - CORRECTION: We had an Excel problem which botched our figures on party registration. We correctly reported that 46% of new North Carolina voter registrations since January were Democrats. However, only 17% of the new registrations were Republican. The remaining 37% were Unaffiliated.

March 25, 2008 - A prominent corporate watchdog group has released its nominees for worst corporation of the year -- and the majority of those that made the list are based in or have ties to the South.

March 24, 2008 - Last week the North Carolina House of Representatives convened for a special session during which they expelled Rep. Thomas Wright by a vote of 109-5. The expulsion of the eight-term African-American Democrat from Wilmington is the chamber's first since Rep.

March 22, 2008 - We learned Friday that the still-unnamed individuals who improperly accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were not actually State Department employees but worked for two private contractors -- The Analysis Corp.*

March 21, 2008 - Virginia lawmakers are giving prosecutors a powerful new tool to crack down on the brutal practice of dogfighting.