South Carolina’s primary is in January.  North Carolina’s primary is in May.  Yet, we have a ‘Team Gingrich’ — composed of some of the usual NCGOP establishment suspects —  being unveiled in Raleigh. Karen Rotterman — 1/2 of the Raleigh-based husband-and-wife consulting team that is…

          In a December 12 order, The federal government’s   Postal Regulatory Commission has rejected  Pinehurst mayoral candidate John Marcum’s appeal of the decision by The U.S. Postal Service to close the downtown Pinehurst post office: On August 18, 2011, John M….

          The crackerjack news team at our thrice-weekly Pulitzer-Prize winning local newspaper hit us the other day with this headline: “Board Apologizes for Criticism on Working Lands Plan”.   But you read into the story, and you find that it’s NOT…

As word gets around about the $2 million surplus from last year’s county budget, county leaders are bracing themselves for the stampede of beggars — with palms extended — headed to Carthage.  Many expect the bigwigs at Moore County Public Schools to be at the…

                  It’s hard to believe BarryO could  get something wrong. (I know. I know. He thought there were 57 states, Hawaii was in Asia, and that he was in TEXAS when he was in KANSAS.  Blah Blah…

              Why are BarryO’s useful idiots in the alleged mainstream media, academia, and the unions so worked up over Raleigh businessman Art Pope?  There has been a high-profile hit piece in The New Yorker. Now, in Raleigh, we will…

        The latest dispatch from “The NW Daily Marker” — a Seattle based political blog — is giving Seattle area congressman Rick Larsen (D) a perpetual migraine.  The blog has come across some tweets — messages on social media platform Twitter —…

  One of our faithful readers, who happens to be a well-placed county employee, alerted me to this gem. The  Moore County budget has a “grant fund,” which is there for the sole purpose of responding to monetary requests from politicos around the county.  County…

The  Pilot has had fun lately quoting from Chris Smithson’s Facebook page.  Let’s see what they do withTHIS latest item from Little Lord Chris’s wall:   The last commenter, Jim Heim, is chairman of the Moore County Democrat Party, which has just gotten big enough…

          NC State University economics professor Dr. Mike Walden painted a bleak picture of the state’s economic future during December 1 testimony before the General Assembly’s Joint Economic Committee.  WRAL’s Laura Leslie had the story: State lawmakers looking for ways to…