ANOTHER sensible idea emanating from Raleigh …
This is getting kinda scary. Some in the GOP legislative majority are proposing merging several small community colleges in order to save the state some money. Florence and Darlington
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Redistricting revisited …
Reports are that the congressional redistricting map produced by the state legislature in Raleigh has been challenged by The U.S. Justice Department over concerns about compliance with the Voting
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One more from the “It Needed to be Said” division of North Carolina state government …
“He spent the last 20 years predicting we were going to lose and when we did declared victory … He was right 1 of 20 times. A broken clock is
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State senate redistricting brings change for Moore
The new redistricting map released by the state legislature Tuesday puts Moore County in a new state senate district and confronts our longtime incumbent, Senator Harris Blake (R), with possibly
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Another headline that NEEDS to be finished ….
“Congressional redistricting plan unpopular” screams the headline in today’s edition of The News & Observer. If you read into the story, you see that the following phrase needs to be
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NC congressional redistricting clarified …
The Charlotte Observer’s Jim Morrill has an excellent piece in today’s paper about congressional redistricting. Opponents of the plan, drafted by the conservative majority in the legislature, say it unfairly
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Legislature’s Republicans FOR crack houses????
Yep. The Fayetteville Observer had a story this morning by the Democrat minority’s chief stenographer Paul Woolverton which would make you believe just that: A state law passed in June
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GOP legislator eyeing Kissell challenge in NC-8
Reports from Washington are that state Rep. Justin Burr (R-Albemarle) — no relation to our state’s senior U.S. Senator — is seriously eyeing a challenge to two-term 8th district incumbent congressman
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A good first step toward reforming public education
The Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation has hit on an idea that I have been bouncing around for a while, as well. JLF’s Terry Stoops is calling for the state
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Planned Parenthood ENTITLED to NC tax money?
Planned Parenthood has filed suit over the recently passed state budget because it cut out funding by the state of North Carolina for their operations. Planned Parenthood says in their
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