NC’s I-95 tolls to hit MORE than just drivers
Legislators and bureaucrats in Raleigh are blowing through funds like a drunken sailor on an extended shore leave. Instead of tightening their belts and trying
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NCGOP: Merely a new set of money-changers in the temple?
GOP leaders took power on Jones Street in 2010 with promises of “no more business as usual.” They were propelled into power by an angry Tea Party and frustrated
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TimmyWatch: Lea for NC Senate?
Moore County political insiders tell me to not be surprised if retiring Moore County Commissioner Tim Lea files at the last minute for the NC Senate seat held by Republican
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Study: No connection between fracking and groundwater pollution
North Carolina is looking at a potentially enormous economic boom with fracking. North Dakota is already booming. The energy industry believes that The Tar Heel State
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Conservatism of Congressional GOP leaders
Does anyone else find it interesting that the top congressional leaders of the GOP — the conservative party — are nowhere near being the most conservative members of
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Pinehurst: “ambience” & selective indignation
When you think of Pinehurst, North Carolina, you think of pristine, well-manicured championship golf courses, the quaint downtown area, and The Carolina Hotel. You certainly don’t think of locales like
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NCDOT: Plenty of $$$$ for Moore County Airport, but not for I-95
It’s recently hit the news that the “wise” persons in our state government are going to set up tolls on I-95 to pay for much-needed renovations. So, in
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Senator Burr: Having it both ways with BarryO’s stimulus
U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) published a great piece the other day in The Charlotte Observer on the evils of BarryO’s stimulus: Three years ago, President Obama
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Campaign 2012: Confused? Lost?
Our local paper reported the other day that Congresswoman Renee Ellmers was campaigning in Moore County. However, according to her official web site, neither Southern Pines nor Moore
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Potomac Fever sweeping Moore County?
It is looking like we in Moore County could have TWO to THREE of our fellow residents on this year’s Second Congressional District ballot. Democrat Steve Wilkins
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