NCDOT board: More trouble than it’s worth
In this age of dwindling tax revenue and budgets drowning in red ink, I have a few questions for the new conservative majority in the legislature. Why are we still
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Pinehurst 2011: Development a key issue in races
It’s become increasingly clear that development is playing a key issue in the 2011 village council races. Voters are expressing frustration with an eroding downtown, a failed residential development
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Auditing Mr. Bouser on Internet sales taxes
The Pilot, our local newspaper, runs unsigned staff editorials in each edition — much like many other papers across the country. (Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s nearly-retired editor, writes most all
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An economics lesson for Nick Picerno
I read the item in today’s Pilot about County Commissioner Nick Picerno’s concern about gas prices in Moore County with one part amusement and one part dismay: Nick Picerno wants
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State Senate GOP blasts Boss Bev on ‘pay to play’
The state Senate GOP majority issued a blistering release today attacking our state’s buffoonish governor for antics that cost The Tar Heel State jobs: Today Continental Tire
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Tillman: Leftists playing games with school $$$ numbers
State senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), the #2 Republican in the state senate and likely Moore County’s next representative in that body, is taking leftist political activists to task for their
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999? NO, that is NOT the area code for Raleigh
Presidential candidate Herman Cain, currently leading in the polls in North Carolina, is getting a lot of attention for his 9-9-9 tax plan. (I can just hear the leftists calling
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Steve Jobs, Rest In Peace
I agree with the characterization of Steve Jobs as our generation’s Thomas Edison. Like Edison, Jobs helped spawn revolutionary technology that has had a major effect on our society. iPods
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Cain takes aim at rabble-rousers on Wall Street
Businessman Herman Cain, currently leading in the GOP presidential primary polls in North Carolina, is firing a shot across the bow at the far-left “Occupy Wall Street” protesters
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Dependence Nation
This is a stunning headline from our friends at The Wall Street Journal: “Nearly Half of U.S. Lives in Household Receiving Government Benefit.” Families were more dependent
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