Category: Moore County

Renee Ellmers: live and in living color

Posted on March 11, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of the first people I bumped into at Saturday’s Moore GOP event was our new Member of Congress, Renee Ellmers of Dunn. Ellmers won a close race

John Marcum now a Fiorillo Fan

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I ran into John Marcum, two-time Pinehurst mayoral candidate and 2012 GOP candidate for NC Senate, at Saturday’s Moore County GOP candidate meet-and-greet in Southern

Campaign 2012: Richard Morgan, those photo shoots, “the picture girl” and those not-so-subtle threats

Posted on March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“He’s a mental case. He does things no sane person would do.” — Former State Rep. Frank Mitchell (R-Iredell) , in 2006, on fellow Republican legislator Richard Morgan

Renee Ellmers getting back to her Tea Party roots

Posted on March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has re-discovered her Tea Party roots just in time for the 2nd congressional district’s GOP primary. Many political observers say the work

The cost of county government in North Carolina

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The John Locke Foundation in Raleigh has put together a fascinating report on the cost of governing at the local level in The Tar

Announcement of tax dollars for brewery raises new set of questions

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It appears that Pinehurst Village government has jumped head-first into the venture capital game — picking winners and losers by investing tax dollars in certain enterprises seeking

Owner of The Pilot newspaper showed BarryO the money in 2011

Posted on March 7, 2012March 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Charlotte Observer has a pretty neat searchable database on its web site detailing 2011 contributions to presidential candidates by North Carolinians. One search of that database found “Frank Daniels,

NYC direct flights in the cards for Moore County Airport?

Posted on March 6, 2012March 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I had an interesting discussion the other day with a local business community mover-and-shaker who is also in-the-know on economic development. Our subject turned to Moore County’s Airport and the

STST: SAVE THE SEX TAPE !!!!

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

John Edwards — AKA “The Breck Girl” and “The Pride of Robbins, NC” — has asked the judge in his corruption trial to NOT destroy a sex tape purportedly

Ellmers sets her sights on ObamaCare

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers — an RN married to an MD — has got a true insiders perspective on American healthcare and government bureaucracy’s effect on