Category: Moore County

Amendment One: Leftist snobbery on display

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Steve Bouser, the opinion editor at our Nobel Prize-nominated thrice weekly local paper here in Moore County, is at it again. He’ll tell you he worked for

Pinehurst: The end of a Tradition?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Tradition of Old Town, a proposed townhome development at the corner of McCaskill and Magnolia, was a sore subject for many Pinehurst voters during the November village elections. The

Whipping up fears about Amendment One (a/k/a “Be afraid of those simple church people”)

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

I see the new editor of our local Pulitzer prize-winning, Nobel-nominated thrice weekly newspaper has already been trained by the Democrat politicos who own and operate

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,