In North Carolina’s Research Triangle, many voters are carefully weighing the fine print of the presidential candidates’ higher-education policies ahead of the state’s primary contest tomorrow, according to The News & Observer, in Raleigh.

The article details the plans that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have offered to make college affordable for more prospective students. The Democrats have offered largely similar proposals, including those that would expand tax credits for higher education and increase the value of federal Pell Grants.

College affordability, the newspaper said, is a “particularly sensitive” topic in North Carolina because the state constitution guarantees citizens a free university education “as far as practicable.”

And the inability of the value of Pell Grants to keep up with rising costs of college is also especially relevant in the state, according to the article, which noted that North Carolina has an especially high concentration of historically black colleges, which tend to serve large proportions of financially needy students.