Colin Donohue

From Carolina Journal Online (7/8/10): The North Carolina House and Senate have each passed ethics legislation in the waning days of the 2010 legislative session. There remain some significant differences between the two bills, leaving some political observers to wonder if lawmakers can strike a deal before going home to campaign.

From the Greensboro News and Record (7/6/10): The N.C. Supreme Court forcefully backed the state's Public Records Act in an important case in June.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times (7/6/10): The North Carolina House and Senate approved different versions of ethics, campaign finance and government reform bills by wide margins Tuesday, creating competing measures they'll use as negotiating tools for a compromise before final adjournment by the end of the week.

From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (7/1/10): A North Carolina judge has ordered an online-news editor to produce the names of six anonymous posters who allegedly posted defamatory comments on his website, although one of them identified himself this morning on a local AM radio station.

Nneka Enurah didn't spend her July 4 holiday like most people out in Los Angeles. She didn't make her way to one of the dozens of fireworks displays or partake in a cookout. She really didn't celebrate at all. Instead, she hung back at her internship with the Fox Broadcasting Corporation, shadowing the vice president of sports in the studio.