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Steve Harrison
Political ReporterSteve Harrison is WFAE's politics and government reporter. Prior to joining WFAE, Steve worked at the Charlotte Observer, where he started on the business desk, then covered politics extensively as the Observer’s lead city government reporter. Steve also spent 10 years with the Miami Herald. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Sporting News and Sports Illustrated.
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Because the city of Charlotte expects to have half as much new tax money for trains from a proposed one-cent sales tax, it told town managers this spring that it can’t afford to build the $6 billion Silver Line light rail from uptown to Matthews. The city said it would build bus rapid transit instead.
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GOP mailers hit Mecklenburg Democratic House candidates over state party platform on drugs, sex workThe two Democratic candidates, Beth Helfrich and Nicole Sidman, criticized the mailers as "cheap shots."
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The city of Charlotte has a tentative agreement to buy the Norfolk Southern freight rail line for $91 million. The city wants to use the rail tracks for a commuter rail line to Lake Norman.
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Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein is leading Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in polls for governor.
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Since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, polls have shown a tight race in North Carolina.But those same polls have shown a huge gap in the governor’s race, with Democratic attorney general Josh Stein holding sometimes double-digit leads against Republican lieutenant governor Mark Robinson.
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In her widely praised, 35-minute acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last Thursday, Harris dispensed with academic jargon or much talk of left-leaning social issues in a bid to claim the center.
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The 2016 presidential election is remembered as a polling bust. But the reality is that 2016 wasn’t that bad of a polling miss. What’s forgotten is what a disaster 2020 was.
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The Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party said Thursday that they've sued the state board of elections. They allege the board is ignoring a 2023 state law that requires it to remove people from voting rolls if those people have indicated on jury questionnaires that they aren't US citizens.
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North Carolina Democratic Governor Roy Cooper was given a prime speaking slot Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Cooper spoke for only four minutes. But as the final speaker before Harris’s acceptance speech, he had a massive TV audience.
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The state Board of Elections voted unanimously Tuesday to recognize the Justice For All Party, which will allow progressive academic Cornel West to be on the North Carolina ballot for president.