WASHINGTON TIMES / AP: …Rob McCord, the state treasurer, questioned why Wolf agreed to chair the 2001 re-election campaign of then-York Mayor Charlie Robertson, who was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a black woman during the city’s 1969 race riots.

Senate Bill 1063, sponsored by Sen. Patricia Vance, R-Cumberland, eliminates a state mandate that prohibits nurse practitioners from operating independently by requiring a written collaborative agreement with at least one physician — two, if the nurse practitioner wants the authority to prescribe medications.

The poll finds majority support across party lines for increasing economic and diplomatic sanctions on Russia, by 53%-36%. There is also strong bipartisan opposition to sending weapons, 62%-30%…

Standard & Poor’s analyst John Sugen said a combination of inaction on pension reform, a proposed reliance on one-time revenues and poor revenue collections leading up to the 2014-15 budget season could result in a credit downgrade of the state’s $545 million in general obligation bonds.

On May 20, we need to nominate a candidate for Lt. Governor based on the same reasoning applied by ‘President Bartlett’. That person might become governor without any other vetting by voters.

North Carolina has acknowledged—and apologized for—the corruption but insists that it was “academic” in nature, rather than “athletic.” That distinction has apparently held sway with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which so far has declined to investigate the goings on in Chapel Hill.

With her nearly 10 years in Congress and 14 years in the state Senate, Schwartz has the most experience in government and politics among the four Democratic candidates. As the campaign heated up last year, many observers viewed her as the candidate to beat.

“You state you will grant me access only if I am able to satisfy you that I will not engage in any evaluation of your actions in reviewing this investigation. You have no authority under the law to establish any such pre-condition,” Williams wrote in a letter to Kane, a copy of which the Tribune-Review obtained…

Calling it “abominable idolatry” and “unlawful worship,” Bowers said the “vast preponderance” of divorces proved that men cheat on their wives because they devote too much love and devotion towards their children…

Tom Wolf claims to be a different type of candidate,” said Mark Bergman, spokesman for the Schwartz campaign. “He says he will take us in a new direction with a ‘Fresh Start’ policy, yet the words aren’t even his own.”…