McNeill surfaces in hunt for Brubaker replacement
The Randolph County GOP’s vice chairman’s name has popped up as a leading contender to replace former House Speaker Harold Brubaker — who resigned from the legislature
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What happened to the ‘MYOB’ rule in party primaries?
I learned a lot about what I know about politics from my late grandfather — who was a political boss in southeastern North Carolina for decades. I’ll
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Brubaker: SO LONG, SUCKERS!
“Let the door knob hit you where the Good Lord split you!” — George Jefferson The mainstream media was full of glowing tributes to former House Speaker and
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N&O fact-checked on fracking by reader & WRAL
Fracking has been legalized by the legislature. But the professional left and their transcriptionists at The N&O are still trying to scare the hell out of the ‘great unwashed’
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ONE MORE WEEK: Runoff election day is July 17th (Time for endorsements.)
Runoffs for a wide range of offices are on the ballot for the July 17th runoff. Have you voted? Will you be around on July 17th? Early voting began
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Shubert: Pittenger misrepresents her role in controversial land deal
A real estate deal in western North Carolina has residents up in arms and has become a major issue in the GOP runoff for the state’s Ninth
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Shubert: Inquiry about signed false DOT letters needs to focus on Perdue aide Pryor Gibson
Former Republican legislator — and conservative stalwart — Fern Shubert says she was disgusted to see two weeping female secretaries dragged in front of a legislative panel. The legislature was
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Racial Justice Act rearing its head again, thanks to lawyers for convicted cop killers
Tilmon Golphin — convicted for the 1997 murders of two North Carolina lawmen — is appealing his death sentence via The Racial Justice Act of 2009. (For the record, the
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Red Light, Green Light: The Pilot labels Democrat’s “mistake” a GOP dirty trick
The Democrat machine operatives who own — and control the editorial content of — our thrice-weekly Emmy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated local newspaper are at it again: stretching the truth and
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From the ‘It Needed to Be Said’ Department, Jones Street division …
Well, the honorables on Jones Street hashed it out over global warming this week, and the arrogance and elitism of the granolas — still smarting from their banishment to
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