Charlotte’s economic troubles pile up
The Queen City will be playing a key role in North Carolina politics this year. Pat McCrory, Charlotte’s former, mayor is the leading GOP contender for governor of North Carolina.
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NC Senate Dist 29 GOP race: campaign signs and election complaints
Hotly contested races almost always come down to this type of stuff in the end. State senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), that body’s Majority Whip, is running for
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Lots of interest by GOP activists in NC’s 2nd congressional district
The 2nd District GOP convention met Saturday in Sanford. Organizers were clearly caught off guard by the large turnout for the first meeting in the newly reconfigured 2nd.
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Racial Justice Act opens the floodgates …
Thank Bev Perdue and her comrades on the left in the NC General Assembly for this. They rammed The Racial Justice Act through the assembly in 2009 over
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Retiring NC Senator Blake says Tillman best choice to represent Moore County in Raleigh
Senator Harris Blake has won a lot of friends and supporters during his long tenure representing Moore County in the state Senate. Retiring this year,
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When leftist editorialists attack ..
Our local paper here in Moore County still won’t print the full text of the constitutional amendment we’re voting on in May. And why would they? It makes it so
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The marriage amendment and political whiplash
It’s unfortunately not all that unusual to see political leaders stop on a dime and change directions on political issues — just to score points with the
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GOP candidate for NC Senate in Guilford picks up the tab for strapped drivers
Trudy Wade, a Republican member of the Greensboro City Council, is running to represent the Greensboro area in the NCGA’s upper chamber. She and her volunteers sponsored and manned
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Once you open the tax dollar spigot, it’s doggone tough to turn it off
A story in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal illustrates this point beautifully: When the University of Wyoming needed an extra $10 million
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N&O launching a political campaign fact check blog. (No, seriously.)
The announcement by The Ol’ Reliable that they are getting into the fact-check business is being met with some dismay, derision, and suspicion, as you can infer from the comments
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