I recently had the opportunity to interview U.S. Sen. Richard Burr for my public affairs program “Front Row” on UNC-TV. In full disclosure, I have known Richard since 1992 when a mutual friend introduced us and asked me to help with paid media in the waning days of his campaign. The race was close, but...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated the youngest Supreme Court justice in a generation, 49-year-old Neil Gorsuch, who sits on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch is a Colorado native who was educated at Harvard and Oxford universities. He clerked for Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy, worked in the Bush administration Justice...
Incumbents ruled the day in the North Carolina congressional delegation as the state’s voters sent Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr back to Washington for a third term and kept the GOP’s 10-3 U.S House majority intact. “In a night of surprises, that was probably one of the least of them,” said Andy Taylor, professor of...
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a distant relative of 19th century Vice President Aaron Burr, trounced Democrat Elaine Marshall in 2010 with the largest percentage of the vote in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate races since the Watergate era. This year Burr faces what he has called “the race of my life” against former state representative Deborah...
Rick Henderson on races for Senate & Congress; Richard Burr on ObamaCare alternative; Susan Katzenelson on prison population projections; Jane Pinsky on need for redistricting reform; Roy Cordato on flawed economics of push to hike minimum wage
